Listening closely to the language of the body, I hold space for my clients to find a sense of themselves within their own physicality, helping them move from anxiety, depression and emotional overwhelm to ease and resilience. Somatic Experiencing is a gentle trauma-renegotiation modality that offers clients the power to manage challenging emotions and nervous system states as they regain their sense of safety in the world and within their natural selves. In a session, we slow down, dropping out of the thinking brain, and pay close attention to what’s happening, moment by moment, in the realm of feeling, intuition and impulse. This compassionate witnessing of our inner sensations, memories and imagery allows the nervous system to have its organic unfolding process, helping it come back into balance. SE, recognized all over the world for its efficacy with healing trauma, gives clients back their confidence, self-protective instincts, bravery and trust.

Early-Attachment Focus

     As mammals, we have a core need to connect with each other and feel safe being held within bonded, caring relationships. We need to feel included and valued. We all have patterning around how or if we try to get our needs met in relationship. Some of our strategies, often learned in childhood, keep us feeling hurt and lonely. And the longing turns to despair, isolation or rage. To me, some of the most tender, rewarding work has been supporting clients to repair their relational selves, express their feelings and needs and feel safe being seen and touched. Working with early-attachment patterns and relational trauma allows us to experience true nurturing and connection and create authentic intimacy in our lives. For most people, this is one of the biggest rewards of inner work.

Neural Repatterning

     To me, the most incredible aspect of healing is seeing the transformation that happens when we practice happiness, exhilaration, calm, satisfaction, gratitude and wonder. Expansive joy and positive thinking don’t come naturally to everyone, but with gentle, body-centered practices, they can emerge. As someone who suffered for years with depression and fatigue, I’ve been amazed how I’ve been able to teach my brain to favor happiness and hopefulness, and my body to feel stronger and more energetic. I now blend neural repatterning into my work with clients and I love to see the results! This is why I strongly encourage daily practice. The more time we spend experiencing serotonin-producing states, thinking new thoughts and staying out of old threat-response loops, the more our neuroplastic brain changes, responding to life from a whole new place.

      "Bonnie shares a loving support, a deep sensitivity and a creative spirit I've never found in anyone else. In her presence emotional guards are lifted away, leaving only the opportunity to come from a place of authenticity."

       -Noelle Adamo, NY

Nature-based Somatic Sessions

    For many people, the natural world is a crucial resource for accessing safety and connection. It's our most primal home and a powerful container for experiencing our mammal body selves. For a lot of people, time outdoors walking in a pine-carpeted forest, sitting next to a chattering creek, feeling the vast expanse of a mountain overlook allows a level of settling that's hard to find any other way. We can experience how deeply we are woven into the fabric of life when we sink in and allow the natural world to work its magic on us. It's always a pleasure for me to bring clients out into nature to receive its incredible medicine and let it support our healing work.