Somatic Coaching
A body-centered approach to anxiety, trauma, and nervous system regulation.
Somatic coaching is a body-centered, goal-oriented approach that brings the body into the conversation. Through Somatic Experiencing® and nervous-system work, we pay attention to what is happening beneath the words: sensation, breath, movement, emotion, impulse, and the patterns your body has learned over time.
You May Already Understand the Pattern
Many of the people I work with have already done therapy, coaching, or meaningful inner work. They understand themselves well. But understanding something and experiencing it differently in the body are not always the same thing.
Somatic coaching gives us another place to work. Rather than focusing only on what you think or why something happens, we also pay attention to what your body is doing in the present.
Ways to Work Together
Somatic Anxiety
For anxiety you can feel, even when you understand where it comes from.
Anxiety often has a physical life of its own: a tight chest, racing energy, difficulty settling, constant alertness, or a body that seems to prepare for something before you know why. Somatic coaching helps you notice these responses as they happen and develop a different relationship with them over time.
Somatic Experiencing® for Trauma
Work with what your body is still responding to.
Trauma can affect much more than what we remember. It can influence how we respond to closeness, conflict, uncertainty, touch, visibility, or situations that feel unsafe even when we know we are safe now. Somatic Experiencing® works gently with these responses in the present, without requiring you to repeatedly revisit the story of what happened.
Nervous System Regulation
Understand your nervous system and build more capacity for regulation.
You don’t need a particular diagnosis or trauma history to work with your nervous system. You may notice that you become activated easily, shut down under stress, have difficulty settling, or simply want to better understand your own patterns. Together, we explore how your nervous system moves through fight, flight, freeze, and regulation, while developing practical tools that can help you find greater steadiness and flexibility in everyday life.
Somatic Experiencing® Touch
Somatic Experiencing® sessions may include touch when it supports the work and is something you want to explore. SE touch is not massage or traditional bodywork. It is a gentle, collaborative way of working with the body and nervous system that may be used alongside conversation and other Somatic Experiencing® practices.
Touch is always optional, discussed together, and guided by consent. You do not need to receive touch to benefit from Somatic Experiencing®.
Our Somatic Coaching Practitioner
ALICIA DIVERS, SEP™, MA-SD
Alicia is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and somatic coach with extensive training in anxiety, attachment, and body-based approaches to human development.
What People Come to Somatic Coaching For
Somatic coaching can support a wide range of experiences, especially when you notice that what you're dealing with isn't only happening in your thoughts. People often come to this work for:
Anxiety, panic, and persistent worry
Chronic stress, overwhelm, and difficulty settling
Trauma and lingering protective responses
Fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown patterns
Relationship and attachment patterns
Difficulty with boundaries or saying no
Feeling disconnected from your body or emotions
Major life transitions, loss, or change
Chronic tension, bracing, or difficulty relaxing
Feeling stuck despite understanding the pattern
Building greater body awareness and nervous-system regulation
Wanting practical tools for working with stress in everyday life
You don't need to know exactly which category fits. We can begin with what you're noticing and what you would like to be different.
Pricing and FAQ’s
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Sessions are 50 minutes and $250 and are generally held weekly. Sessions are available in person at Brooklyn Mindbody Collective in Greenpoint and virtually.
We usually begin in conversation, while also paying attention to what is happening in your body. A session may include noticing sensation, breath, movement, emotion, or impulse, as well as nervous-system regulation tools, Somatic Experiencing® practices, movement, or optional SE touch.
You don’t need to know exactly what you want to work on before reaching out. The consultation gives us a chance to talk about what’s bringing you in, answer questions, and see whether working together feels like a good fit.
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Somatic coaching is a body-centered, goal-oriented form of coaching rather than psychotherapy. As a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP™), my work focuses on the body and nervous system and does not include mental-health diagnosis or psychotherapy.
Somatic coaching can also be done alongside therapy or other forms of care. With your permission, I’m happy to communicate or collaborate with your therapist when that would support our work together.
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No. People come to somatic coaching for many reasons, including anxiety, chronic stress, nervous-system dysregulation, relationship patterns, major transitions, or simply wanting to better understand their body and nervous system.
Ready to See If This Work Is a Fit?
You don’t need to know exactly where to begin. A consultation is a chance to talk about what’s bringing you in, ask questions, and see whether working together feels like the right next step.
"After years of talk therapy, I felt like I could fully understand my anxiety logically, but no amount of understanding what was going on in my head truly made me feel less anxious.
My time with Alicia has helped me begin unraveling the deeply ingrained behaviors, in both mind and body, that have led to the way I feel. I've begun to feel far more present in my body and like I have the tools to grow beyond the anxiety, trauma, and tension that, for a very long time, felt unshakeable.
I cannot recommend Alicia's services enough!"
—Isabella Savingnano
Pricing
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50 min - $250