SERVICEs
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING Touch therapy
A body-centered approach to nervous system regulation, trauma healing, and deeper embodiment.
Somatic Experiencing Bodywork combines the principles of Somatic Experiencing with attuned, trauma-informed touch to support a deeper relationship with your body, your nervous system, and your innate capacity for healing. Rather than focusing only on muscles or symptoms, we listen to the body as a source of information. Together, we slow down and notice sensations, impulses, emotions, areas of tension or numbness, and subtle shifts in the nervous system. Touch may then be incorporated to offer support, grounding, containment, connection, or a new experience of safety within the body.
Sessions are collaborative and paced according to your capacity in the moment. You remain in choice throughout the process, and touch is always optional and consent-based. Depending on what feels supportive, a session may include conversation, Somatic Experiencing practices, breath and movement, stillness, or gentle hands-on bodywork on the massage table. This work can be especially supportive for people who feel that they understand their patterns intellectually but still experience them physically — as chronic tension, hypervigilance, shutdown, disconnection, difficulty relaxing, feeling overwhelmed, or a sense of being unable to fully settle into themselves.
Somatic Experiencing works with the body's present-moment experience rather than requiring you to repeatedly revisit or retell difficult experiences. Instead, we work gradually and gently with what your nervous system is able to access and integrate now. The intention is not to force a release or make something happen, it is to create enough safety, awareness, and support for your system to discover its own next step. Over time, this kind of work may support greater nervous system flexibility, embodied awareness, capacity for regulation, connection with your own boundaries and needs, and a deeper sense of presence within yourself.
This is not a conventional massage session. While touch and bodywork may be part of the experience, the focus is on the relationship between sensation, nervous system responses, emotion, movement, and embodied experience. Each session is shaped around what is present for you that day
THERAPEUTIC TABLE MASSAGE
Therapeutic massage is tailored to meet the needs of the client. you will discuss your goals for the session and the pressure and pace will be adjusted accordingly. techniques involve trigger point therapy, stretching, neuromuscular and myofascial release to work out chronic patterns of pain and muscle tension. My sessions tend to be slower and deeper.
shiatsu
Zen shiatsu is of Japanese origin, performed on a cushioned floor mat with the client fully clothed. it is an amazing way to bring you fully in-touch with your body’s energetic systems, balancing out the meridians. deep stretching, firm compression, percussion, and acupressure point techniques are used to balance energy and revitalize the body, mind, and spirit.
cupping
Cupping is a soft tissue therapy that encourages healing by creating a negative pressure or suction on the skin using plastic cups that pull up underlying tissues, blood, and other fluids close to the surface of the skin. the amount of time spent cupping will be determined during the session, while deep tissue, trigger point, and Swedish techniques are incorporated into the session. this is great for scar tissue, tight fascia, and circulation of fluids.
acupressure
Acupressure is a type of massage therapy in which manual pressure is applied to specific points on the body. it is a practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that is similar to acupuncture, except that it uses fingertip pressure instead of needles. the session is done on the table with clothes on, and can be used for both physical and emotional ailments. the practitioner will do an intake to determine which energy pathways need support. this is relaxing and quiet work, if not spiritual.
Virtual Somatic Coaching
Virtual Somatic Coaching is a body-centered therapeutic approach designed to help individuals process and resolve trauma and chronic stress. The client typically comes to the session with something they want to work on, an idea of what they want out of somatic work, or how they hope somatic work might support them. Somatic Experiencing is just as effective virtually as it is in person, and is great for clients wanting to remain in the comfort of their home, those dealing with chronic pain, or those that don’t live locally.
Sliding Scale option available ($80-$130)
This service uses a different booking system, please email directly to set up a virtual coaching session: solsticesomaticshealing@gmail.com