The Neuro-Mechanical Animal
What is “somatic healing”, anyways??
Somatic healing is a way of working with the trauma we hold in the body. It’s a body-centered approach that bridges the gap between the mind and the physical form to resolve deep-rooted stress.
Rather than just analyzing your experiences intellectually, we use physiological awareness to release the stored, subconscious tension that disrupts your nervous system.
Why not talk therapy?
Talk therapy is incredibly valuable for cognitive understanding, but you cannot talk your way out of a physical response. When we experience stress, our bodies learn to protect us by storing that energy as physical tension. The way I like to describe this is as an “internal flinch”. If someone’s been hit, what will they do the next time someone raises a fist? It’s quite likely that they’ll flinch—and something similar happens every time you experience long-term stress, though the “flinch” may not always be visible. We carry tension inside of us for years, usually unknowingly. This could look like shallow breathing resulting in a constricted diaphragm, or bracing in your connective tissue that leads to chronic pain. This type of internal tension can also lead to poor gut health, and even digestive issues!
Therapy is a useful tool, but I have more freedom to help you heal mind, body, and soul in a somatic healing space. I’ve always been a healer first, and a therapist second. :)
Modern medicine often treats us like a bag of disassembled parts, but our brains are (and always have been) a literal part of our bodies. If you only process trauma intellectually, you leave the physical root cause untouched. Somatic work brings these unconscious physical patterns into conscious awareness, moving you from a state of chronic defensive bracing into a true flow state.
About the Practice: Tiers & Offers
All appointments are conducted virtually, customized precisely to support your unique autonomic baseline and integration capacity.
1. Somatic Healing and Nervous System Regulation
Trauma-informed, body-centered somatic sessions focused on identifying localized holding patterns, processing stored stress signatures, resolving chronic dissociation, and gently guiding the autonomic nervous system back to a grounded, resilient baseline.
- Initial Intake & Assessment Session (Autonomic Architecture Mapping) $175
- Subsequent Individual Regulation Sessions $125
- Somatic Regulation Package (5 Scheduled Sessions) $500
2. Digestive Vitality Coaching (enteric nervous system regulation)
A specialized, targeted coaching track dedicated to the enteric nervous system ("the second brain") and the gut-brain axis. We focus on relaxing visceral bracing, optimizing metabolic digestive sequencing, and cultivating an internal environment that supports cellular energy and calms overall systemic inflammation.
- Individual Enteric Regulation & Vitality Session $95
- Digestive Vitality 4-Session Track $340
3. Self-Paced Digital Manuals
Sold via Venmo: Turnaround time for digital delivery can be up to 24 to 48 hours. When sending payment, please explicitly include which guide you want and your email address within your Venmo note so your files can be sent directly to your inbox.
The Complete Regulation Bundle
Acquire both foundational manuals together. This combined resource pairs structural metabolic support with targeted enteric nervous system regulation for a comprehensive approach to somatic wellness.
Mitochondrial Healing Food Guide
A precise blueprint detailing optimal foods to consume and specific elements to avoid to support cellular energy, reduce systemic inflammation, and enhance vitality.
Order of Digestion & Enteric Regulation
A master blueprint mapping out optimal culinary sequencing and bottom-up structural techniques to soothe the enteric nervous system and relieve physical gut stress.
The Neuro-Mechanical Framework
Welcome to The Neuro-Mechanical Animal. Within this therapeutic architecture, we honor a foundational truth: the creative animal (you) is completely mediated through neuro-mechanical pathways. Every abstract thought, complex emotion, and visceral sensation exists as a bi-directional dialogue between the central nervous system and the structural body framework.
When our physiological architecture is fully regulated, life force and intentional movement move fluidly. When the system faces chronic threat, our capacity for creativity, relational safety, and presence becomes locked into survival-driven somatic patterns.
Somatic Healing and Nervous System Regulation
Complex trauma, developmental stress, and high-stimulus modern environments fundamentally alter autonomic nervous system wiring. Stuck in states of high sympathetic activation (chronic fight or flight) or dorsal vagal immobilization (systemic shutdown and freeze), the body defaults into protective bracing patterns. This displays physically as altered breath cycles, neuromuscular holding habits, and lingering myofascial constriction.
Somatic healing is the targeted process of re-establishing somatic mapping and down-regulating hyper-aroused states. By working through a bottom-up framework, we safely resolve somatic dissociation—where the brain fragments away from real-time physical feedback—and rebuild neural safety, expanding your baseline resilience and capacity for regulation from the inside out.
