Trauma Healing, Nervous System Regulation
& Somatic Experiencing® for Individuals & Groups

Each session is 60 min and can include talk, experiential processing, body awareness, and may include touch work. Each session may also include homework, or teaching concepts that may help clients integrate and understand what took place during their session.

This will be different than your traditional western mental health talk therapy session as the body and the nervous system are always invited to tell their story. Sessions always begin by being curious about 
what's going well in a clients life, and by building the capacity to be present in the body. The first priority of Somatic Experiencing® is to support a clients' ability to be present in the body and find the ability to settle, even just a little bit.

Throughout, the session will slowly venture into the pain points of a clients experience while being curious about how those experiences land in the body and the nervous system. Most important is supporting clients in developing the capacity to be present in their body, and to work within what is tolerable while stretching slowly the ability to digest activation and trigger.  This work is always curious about supporting biological nervous system function, allowing clients to have choice in their sessions, and prioritizes clients' physical and felt sense of safety. 

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Alexandra provides a supportive container to help clients' nervous systems navigate pain points incrementally. She allows a lot of time and space for each person to find and discover a sense of wellbeing and relationship to their body and to experience tools that help navigate big emotions,  trauma, and attachment and boundary ruptures. 

Some of Alexandra's clients loving refer to SE as Interruption Therapy. The point of SE is not to come in and tell the story, and "get through" all of the pain points in a clients life. SE desires to interrupt the pattern of trauma, and thus Alexandra will often ask clients to pause in their story, or to tell only a small little part of it, to support clients in getting curious about what is going on on the inside. It is the physiological responses to trigger, story, and stimulus that keeps us stuck. SE is interested in helping clients to track their physical responses, get curious, and support digestion and discharge. 




SE sessions with Alexandra can and often do include touch work. This touch work will be offered as an invitation only, never required, and only after multiple layers of consent.  Relational touch can be very therapeutic to clients who feel isolated, those who have had developmental and relational trauma, and those who present with symptoms of depression, feelings of not being real, and those who feel disconnected from their body. Alexandra's touch is not intended to fix, but rather to support and connect. As stated above, there are not requirements here only invitations after relational trust is established.