Somatic Experiencing®
Healing, Wholeness, and Transformation
1:1 Somatic Experiencing® Sessions combined with Spiritual Direction or bodywork
Welcome to a space of healing, wholeness, and transformation. Through the powerful combinations of Somatic Experiencing® and Spiritual Direction or Somatic Experiencing® and bodywork, we help individuals navigate trauma, reconnect with their bodies, and explore their spirituality in a way that brings balance and deep renewal. Whether you are seeking to release stress and pain, heal from trauma, or integrate spirituality into your healing journey, this is a safe space for your unique path.
What is Somatic Experiencing®?
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a gentle, body-based approach to relieving stress and healing from trauma by metabolizing traumatic experiences through physiology. Rather than focusing on the story or event that caused distress, SE works with the sensations and responses held in your body. It helps you access your body’s natural ability to recover from overwhelm by calming the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses, restoring balance to your nervous system.
Whether you've experienced a major event or the accumulation of smaller, everyday stressors, SE guides you in tuning into what’s happening in your body. This process creates space for release and healing, shifting your nervous system from a state of tension or feeling stuck to a more grounded and relaxed state. Over time, SE helps your nervous system become more flexible, making it easier to handle stress and return to a state of calm. It’s about finding ease, letting go of stress, and building resilience in your everyday life.
Each session offers a supportive space where you can safely explore your body’s signals without pressure, allowing healing to happen at your own pace. Even if you don’t think of yourself as having trauma, SE is highly effective for dealing with “small T” traumas like ongoing work stress, challenging relationships, or accumulated anxiety. By working with your body’s responses, SE helps you process and release the tension you might not even realize you're holding, allowing you to feel more present, connected, and alive—ready to move through life with greater ease and resilience.
What to Expect in a Session
In each session, we’ll work together to help you reconnect with your body in a way that feels safe and comfortable for you. Some people may feel disconnected from their bodies, or find focusing on physical sensations overwhelming—and that’s completely normal. We’ll start wherever you are and explore your body’s signals gently, at your own pace.
How It Works: At the start of each session, we’ll begin with a brief check-in to see how you're feeling physically and emotionally. From there, we’ll move into body awareness exercises designed to help you tune into the sensations in your body. Each session is different, based on what your body needs that day, and we always close with grounding techniques to help you leave feeling balanced and supported.
In Somatic Experiencing®, we use methods like pendulation (moving between sensations of discomfort and ease), titration (working with small doses of sensation or emotion), and resourcing (finding what helps you feel grounded and supported). These techniques help your body process stress in a way that feels manageable, allowing for relief without feeling overwhelmed.
By meeting regularly, we create space for your nervous system to gradually unwind and reorganize, giving it time to learn new, healthier patterns that will sustain you long-term. This consistency is key to building deeper resilience and lasting change over time.
We’ll approach this with a playful curiosity, learning how your nervous system responds, and finding ways to work with its unique patterns. There’s no rush, only exploration. Together, we’ll create a safe space where you can reconnect with your body, helping you move toward greater ease, balance, and resilience.
Healing Religious Trauma and Integrating Spirituality
With Alicia Divers. For many people, spiritual beliefs and practices are deeply connected to their identity and sense of purpose. However, when those experiences are marked by trauma, it can feel confusing or even painful to navigate. This is where Somatic Spiritual Direction comes in, offering a safe space to gently explore how your body holds these experiences and to help you reconnect with your spirituality in a way that feels healing and authentic.
One of my specialties is working with religious trauma, whether it's from deconstructing faith, facing rejection or harm within religious communities (particularly for LGBTQIA+ individuals), or wrestling with complicated emotions around belonging and belief. This process helps you navigate the tension between spirituality and trauma, guiding you toward a more embodied and authentic spiritual life.
If spirituality is important to you but past experiences have left you feeling disconnected or unsure of how to integrate it with your healing, we’ll work together to include those aspects in your journey. Whether you’re reclaiming your faith, exploring new beliefs, or finding peace with spiritual questions, we’ll make space for your unique path. Somatic Spiritual Direction supports your body’s healing while honoring your spirituality, helping you find wholeness in both.
Ready to begin?
I invite you to take the next step on your path to healing and transformation. Whether you are new to this work or have been on your healing journey for a while, I’m here to support you. You can schedule a consultation or reach out with any questions to explore how Somatic Experiencing® can help you find greater ease, resilience, and wholeness.
Our Somatics Practitioners
ALICIA DIVERS
Offering tailored combinations of Somatic Experiencing®, Somatic Coaching and Spiritual Direction
CHELSEY KAPUSCINSKI
Offering a combination of bodywork (Rolfing® or Thai Bodywork) and Somatic Experiencing®
"I connected with Alicia during a very stressful season of conflict in my work and personal life. After more than a decade of spiritual deconstruction, I also came to her exhausted from striving and searching. Alicia offered a safe space where I could be my real self. She listened well, and when I was ready, offered direction and tools to re-engage spiritually in new and meaningful ways. I am grateful for her wisdom and gentle encouragement!"
—Nicole Iman, Humanitarian Aid Worker in Dubai
“Chelsey worked wonders in my first Rolfing session! After six months of waking up with shoulder and neck pain, my left shoulder pain is completely gone, and my right feels so much better. I did so many sessions of acupuncture and massages at other studios, neither helped. For the first time, I was able to sleep through the night without pain waking me up. I wanted to cry (out of happiness) from the relief i finally got, and I can’t wait for my next session to tackle the remaining tightness.”
—Josephine W., travel writer
Pricing
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50 min - $125 to $200 (sliding scale)
Allowing you to pay based on your ability while also honoring the value of my training and expertise. This approach ensures that our work together respects both your needs and the skills I bring to our sessions
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Please book either Rolfing® or Thai Bodywork and indicate your interest in Somatic Experiencing®
65 min - $220 (returning clients only)
90min - $270 (new or returning clients)
120 min **includes a combination of bodywork, Physiyoga and/or Somatic Experiencing® - $325 (new or returning clients)
$20 discount for cash payment
Packages available only for 90 min or 120 min sessions:
$30 off prepaid 3 pack
$110 off prepaid 9-10 pack