1:1 Somatic Experiencing & Trauma Resolution

Restore your relationship to your body. Resolve traumatic cycles and free-up more energy for life in the present moment. Repair past relational wounds to bring more love into your current connections.

Trauma can make it feel like we can't safely be in our bodies. This disconnection perpetuates our feeling of danger because it severs us from our instincts, true feelings, and desires.

Your relationship with your body is the longest one you will ever have.

It is never too late to begin work on such a vital relationship. Our bodies, like all other bodies we are in relationship with, don't like to be controlled, told what to do, or who they are. Our bodies want to be experienced and related to. While the mind can create any narrative it wants, the body cannot lie about what we are truly feeling.

Traumatic experiences were moments where bodily sensations became overwhelming.

So we learn to avoid connection to our bodies. We retreat to the mind where it feels safer, where we attempt to anticipate threats and brace against them physically, energetically, and emotionally.

Through working with rather than against the adaptive intelligence of your nervous system, you can slowly relearn that it's safe to feel and be with your experience in real-time.

This opens up a world of possibility and constitutes a return to your most natural birthright—being in embodied relationship to yourself and to life.

“Somatics introduces us to an embodied life. It reminds us that we are organic and changing people. There are vast amounts of information within our bodies and sensations when we learn to listen to the language of sensations, impulses and an embodied knowing. Through the body we can access ourselves, develop self-knowledge and change.”

— Staci Haines, The Politics of Trauma

Soma: “the living organism in its wholeness.

Our wholeness exists in relationship—with ourselves, our bodies, each other, and all living things. We cannot understand our true nature outside the context of connection. Yet we've become profoundly disconnected, nowhere more evident than in the chasm between mind, heart, and body.

Nevertheless, this connection persists intact. When we nurture this essential connection, the coherent living organism that we are naturally returns to its innate drive toward wholeness and relational health.

By interrupting the habitual leap from body sensations to cerebral processing, we redirect established neural pathways and create new channels of connection and growth. Over time, this transforms only how we experience the terrain of our bodies but the entire landscape of our lives.

I’m Marissa

I'm a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner whose approach is deeply rooted in my background as a birthworker. My practice is guided by a steadfast reverence for the body's inherent wisdom. I believe in the transformative power that emerges when we truly return to the home of our bodies—reconnecting with ourselves in ways that open new possibilities for healing and wholeness.

FAQs

  • Our sessions are guided by the material that you bring in and the present-moment capacity of your nervous system. You may bring a specific theme, experience or pattern to the session that you want to work with. We might also sit with the body and see what arises. While we may use specific practices and tools throughout the session, the sessions themselves are not practice-based. Our time together is completely tailored to following and listening to you and your body.

  • I generally recommend booking sessions either weekly or every other week at the beginning. We can discuss frequency of session, and find a rhythm that works for you.

  • Yes! There are give and takes to working together online, but I find that there is actually some benefit to you getting to be in the comfort of your own space. It's pretty remarkable how our nervous systems can sync up, even through distance.

  • Sessions are $150 and 50 minutes long. I also offer packages which you can learn more about below.

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  • 3-Month Container: Sessions Every Other Week

    • $800 Pay In Full (Save $150)

    • 2 Payments of $400 (Save $150)

    • 3 Payments of $270 (Save $140)

  • 3-Month Container: Weekly Sessions or 6 Month Container: Every Other Week Sessions

    • $1450 Pay In Full (Save $400)

    • 2 Payments of $725 (Save $400)

    • 3 Payments of $500 (Save $350)

    • 5 Payments of $312 *Only Available For 6-Month Option (Save $290)

  • 6-Month Container: Weekly Sessions

    • $2880 Pay In Full (Save $770)

    • 2 Payments of $1440 (Save $770)

    • 4 Payments of $720 (Save $770)

    • 6 Payments of $500 (Save $650)

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Cancellation & Reschedule Policy

You are welcome to reschedule at any time as long as you provide 24 hours notice. If you cancel with less than 24 hour notice, or fail to show up, you will be charged the full session fee for the appointment. The only time this will be waived is in the case serious illness, extreme weather or other unavoidable circumstances. Thank you for understanding. There will be a $50 cancellation fee for packages canceled within 48 hours of purchase. After that, a 75% refund will be issued. The only time this will be waived is in the case serious illness, extreme weather or other unavoidable circumstances.