Intensive Extended Somatic Therapy

A sacred space to unravel, re-member, and root into your wholeness.

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Intensive Extended Somatic Therapy is a deep, immersive healing experience designed to support profound transformation at the pace of trust in your body’s wisdom. In a world that often demands us to fragment, suppress, or rush our healing, this work offers a deep, gentle, and revolutionary alternative. 

This work honors the layered intelligence of your nervous system and the intricate stories held in your cells, muscles, breath, and bones. This sacred container unearths the fruits of gut-knowing truths. This is therapy that reaches the root. 

Embodied healing that honors the complexity of your being.

It’s not about pushing through. It’s about what yearns to be met that’s been exiled, denied, forgotten, or abandoned, to welcome home your inner parts, and to build bridges between your pain and your power. 

In these extended sessions, we create a spacious field for the body to speak—through movement, quaking, stillness, tension, sensation, image, memory. We follow the thread of what arises with reverence, allowing you to unwind long-held patterns buried under productivity, urgency, trauma, or silence. 

Whether you’re moving through grief, overwhelming transitions, relational rupture, burnout, or the longing to return to your own inner rhythm, this is an invitation to come home to yourself.

What Makes this Work Unique?

  • Listening to the body’s wisdom through movement, stillness, posture, gait, gesture, sensation, and breath. Trauma is more than story, it has neurobiological imprints.

  • Engaging your internal landscape with compassion, curiosity, and the understanding that every part has a purpose

  • Exploring the symbolic, ancestral, and unconscious realms that shape our inner life and relationships

  • Understanding the multifold impacts of trauma and how to rewire for connection, safety, and regulation

  • Using movement, voice, rhythm, image, sound, and creative expression to access intuitive truths within

  • Unraveling oppression, reclaiming embodiment, and centering healing as a political and spiritual act

Why Extended Sessions?

Extended sessions (90 min to 4+ hours) provide the spaciousness for deep transformation, especially when we’re working with complex trauma, dissociation, chronic pain, ancestral grief, reclamation, or rage.

  • Many clients find that a few extended sessions can be more impactful than months of weekly therapy—especially during times of transition, crisis, or breakthrough. Allows for focused attention on core issues or developmental milestones in a condensed timeline.

  • Longer sessions reduce the pressure to "get to the point" and offer space for sequencing stress/trauma response, the body to relax, and deeper emotional layers to surface organically.

  • Trauma and ongoing stress often causes chronic dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system. Extended time allows us to gently shift out of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and collapse states and restores calm, clarity, and grounded presence.

  • When working with complex, developmental, or somatic trauma, longer sessions provide the time needed to explore, titrate, and integrate without leaving you raw or fragmented afterwards. Emotions like grief, rage, or joy often need more space to unfold, be witnessed, move through, ground/recenter, and transition with ease.

  • Allows space for weaving multiple modalities (IFS, parts work, somatics, depth work, neurorehabilitation, etc.) in an integrative way. Offers more time for both resourcing and release, welcoming a sense of completion to fully settle.

    1. With skilled attunement and time, clients often reconnect with their agency, intuition, and inner authority. This fosters greater trust in your body and your path forward.

    2. More time means more room to explore your inner landscape—discovering grounded resourcing, emotional safety, and somatic tools you can return to in daily life.

Benefits of Intensive Somatic Work

  1. Release stuck survival responses like freeze, collapse, hypervigilance, fawning, flight/fight

  2. Transforms trauma pain through body-based, creative, and relational processing—not just talking about it, but metabolizing it.

  3. Reconnect to your body’s natural rhythm and intuitive knowing

  4. Restore a sense of safety in your body, relationships, and the world.

  5. Supports neurodivergent wiring by allowing stims, movement, nonlinear expression, and time-flexible pacing.

  6. Reclaim joy, sensuality, and self-expression.

  7. Develop nervous system flexibility for deeper resilience and emotional spaciousness.

  8. Deepens access to the subconscious, integrating mind-body memory held in posture, muscle tension, voice, and breath.

  9. Facilitates brain rewiring through repetition, rhythm, coordination, and relational safety in play—building new neural pathways of trust, joy, and connection.

  10. Creates space for grief, rage, and joy, the feelings that are often too big or layered to fully hold in 60-minute weekly sessions.

  11. Reclaims creative self-expression that may have been shamed, suppressed, or lost to survival.

  12. Strengthen your inner resources for navigating life’s complexity.

What You Might Experience

  1. Nervous system harmony and emotional coherence.

  2. Support for neurodivergent processing styles (e.g., pacing, stimming, nonlinear storytelling, creative flow).

  3. Dialogue with inner parts that hold fear, shame, joy, or protectiveness.

  4. Recovery of buried or suppressed emotions and ancestral resonance.

  5. Rewiring of neural pathways through somatic practice and mindfulness.

  6. Reconnection to intuition, play, sensuality, voice, and inner authority.

  7. Transformation of shame, anxiety, and trauma into self-trust and expression.

  8. A sense of being truly witnessed—not just as a symptom, but as a soul.