As a coach and bodyworker, I’m not simply in the room to give you practices and suggestions or provide bodywork, I’m also there to offer assessments around how I see you showing up in the relationship.

The bodywork I offer is designed to help people feel their bodies more deeply, and because many of my clients have had trauma, the bodywork is also a place to process that trauma.

Many of the people I work with - especially many of the women I work with - express a very understandable concern about receiving bodywork from a male identifying bodyworker.

For many struggling with anxiety, simply learning the very practical steps of how to soften and let go in the tissues of their body can make the difference between feeling overwhelmed by stress and feeling skillful in managing it.

This blog focuses on the main aspects that make the somatic bodywork I offer distinct from somatic therapy.

The core offering of somatic bodywork and coaching is to help people become reacquainted with their sensations, their energy, their body.

From a somatic perspective it is not our strong emotions themselves that are the problem, but rather the way we let ourselves become consumed with the emotion.

Fundamentally the issue isn’t that our emotions are too strong, but rather that we have not yet made ourselves a big enough container to be with our emotions.

As discussed in previous blogs, there are similarities and differences between therapy and the type of somatic work I offer clients.

Somatic work is one of the most effective ways to combat anxiety attacks and panic attacks.

More and more when you hear and read about how to manage emotions and stress, you come across research on breathing exercises.

It’s common that people expect or anticipate an emotional release when receiving somatic bodywork.

With the rise in telecoaching, teletherapy, and telehealth, more and more people have become used to getting their mental wellness needs met online.

Given that the somatic bodywork I offer is hands-on connective tissue work done on a massage table, it’s understandably often confused with massage.

In the somatic work I provide, feeling your feet isn’t just a metaphor or a good idea - it’s an essential part of coming into your body, your senses, and of trusting yourself. 

The breath tells us what it needs to heal, and Somatic bodywork can help you access and harness your breath to unlock healing.