Somatic Experiencing
Explore your internal experience, process your narratives, and arrive in the present with a modality aimed at integrating trauma and transforming patterns all through the body.
Here’s how Somatic Experiencing Institute describes this bottom-up modality:
“Somatic Experiencing (SE™) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. Trauma, from an SE lens, is focused on how it shows up in the nervous system and how that dysregulation impacts life. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient. It is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders from a nervous system lens within a practitioner’s scope of practice. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.”
Read more about this modality on the SEI website HERE
Hello, Friend.
Welcome to Earth Body Somatics.
My name is Rachel, and I help people reconnect with their body, find resolution from trauma, and return to the self they recognize so they can live life with ease.
We may be a good fit if you’re looking for:
curious inquiry and compassionate validation
I bring my curious and playful nature into each session in hopes of finding an easeful path towards clarifying and highlighting your own inherent wisdom. I also know very well how difficult it is to dig deep and find compassion for the parts of our selves that feel like the culprit. In those moments of facing a challenge, I am right there to remind you that your body holds far more than the “score”. Joy, pleasure, and ease are just waiting to be noticed.
responsive attention and trauma awareness
Your sense of safety and comfort are my top priorities. All of my offerings are aimed at tending to the nervous system with awareness of the individual’s experience, needs, and boundaries. In addition, I want to meet you where you’re at in each moment. This means we can adapt our plan to suit your needs before, during and after session. I bring various props, tools, techniques and approaches to a session so that we can create a container that looks like care, to you.
a steady presence that centers relationship
I think you might already know how incredibly important relationship is in a therapeutic space. With the right person, we feel like co-regulation is a breeze, a sense of safety might be more accessible, and we feel hopeful that we can finally settle and soften with a witness. This sense of being seen and heard, is key to our growth. I think you might also know that relationship building and growth takes time. Please know, I am here for the slow and steady.
“Rachel is the most thoughtful practitioner I’ve had the experience of working with! It’s refreshing to find someone who integrates movement with body work, and introduces healing practices in this particular way. They are clearly knowledgeable and at the same time they are creative and kind in their work. I honestly couldn’t recommend them more.”
-Carly F.
Step 1: schedule your initial session
This meeting provides the opportunity to define your goals and co-create a plan that meets your needs. We’ll also have some time to practice and get a feel for where your nervous system is at in the moment and determine if this modality is a good fit for you at this time.
This offering is available both in person and virtually to anyone who can meet in the Pacific Standard Time zone.
Step 2: return for regular sessions.
Our work begins with sessions aimed at building a strong support system for the work ahead with attention on resourcing, boundary, needs, and preferences
Each session after will vary in order to meet you in each moment, but for the most part our time together will align within this structure:
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When we first meet and settle, I’ll join you in an exercise that invites us both to arrive in the room together.
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An assessment can include body scans, a check in of movements and shapes held in your body, and a revisit of your goals to be sure we are on the right path for you.
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This care includes everything we planned on and many alternate choices available when we need to adapt.
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After your session, we can reflect on our work together and create personalized rituals and practices that will carry you long after our session.
Sliding Scale Pricing
Supported Rate
$105
Standard Rate
$135
Supporting Rate
$150
Each session is created to meet your needs in the moment.
In our work together, we have many elements of a practice to integrate that include but are not limited to:
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Somatic exploration is an experiential inquiry of sensation, visualization, patterns, emotions, and beliefs.
This work is deeply influenced by the Somatic Experiencing method.
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Neuro-fascial bodywork is an active practice aimed at body awareness and re-patterning limiting shapes and movements.
This modality is also available when an individual is not ready for or does not desire touch.
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Therapeutic movement is curious action that invites exploration of static posture and expressive motion with:
responsive movements that meet you exactly where you’re at with invitation to expand
foundational postures that build relationship with stability
dynamic exercises to further develop joint range and expansive patterns
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There is a vast world of research for the nervous system and approaches to health. In our sessions, I center Polyvagal Theory and additional supporting claims aimed at whole system integration
“Rachel is sensitive, intuitive, informative and comforting. They offered movement that I could carry with me outside of our session to continue to support my body. I’m so thankful that healers like this exist and grateful to have been the recipient of her care.”
— Brea Y.
FAQs
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The duration of your commitment is dependent on your needs, goals, and expectations.
However, I recommend committing to at least 3 months of biweekly sessions.
This allows us to create a foundation of resources and tools you can take for ongoing emotional care.
One-off sessions can be of value for emergent support needs, once you feel stable in your practice.
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No, in fact, I highly recommend viewing your first session as taking the offer out for a spin before you decide to continue our work together.
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I offer a few Somatic Experiencing-focused sliding-scale sessions monthly.
These sessions are 45 minutes long and are offered on a sliding scale of $60-115.
If you are interested in this offering, email me for availability.
“It is amazing how much ease I feel in my body after an Integrative Bodywork session. Compared to massage therapy, this reaches a much deeper level of healing.”
— Private Client
Who is this offer for:
People who are looking for an alternative way to connect with their body, improve overall well-being, including mental health, and move in new ways with ease
Individuals who are resistant to touch, but want to experience a touch modality so they can better connect with others
Folks who are ready to get out of their head and into their body after processing traumatic events
Who this offer is not for:
People who are not ready to feel the experience of the body, including emotions
Individuals experiencing an active health-related crisis
Folks looking for a passive modality that will fix, heal, cure, or rid their body of trauma
Let’s begin.
To get started with this offering, you’ll first need to book an initial session to determine if this offering is a good fit for you at this time.
This offering is available in person and virtually to anyone who can meet in the PST time zone.