Soma and the Soul | A space to ourselves through somatic awareness, movement, creativity, writing, and depth work

Soma and the Soul

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door; if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door”.

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Welcome

My name is Jen, and I am a psychotherapist, somatic experiencing practitioner, a writer and a workshop facilitator. I find great meaning and joy in walking alongside others in their journeys of self-exploration and self-expression, whether it is through an individual therapy process or in a somatic and creative writing workshop. I have a deep trust that our psyches and our nervous systems want to orient towards healing and have the capacity for transformation. That can mean that what arises in our lives as defenses, self-protection, challenges, tensions, frictions, or stuckness can be doorways into a deeper connection with ourselves and a path towards more fullness and aliveness. It doesn’t mean it’s easy or always feels good, and certainly there are some very real challenges in life and society that can’t be “resolved,” but if we are engaged with ourselves while being held in a supportive environment, we can find aspects of it deeply rewarding and enriching and can feel strengthened in our integrity and desire to be aligned and grounded in ourselves. FOR MORE ABOUT ME AND MY BACKGROUND

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Therapy & Somatic Experiencing

I see my work with clients as a co-created experience that considers each person’s individual needs, intentions, and pacing. My work is not prescriptive, but is alive and flexible, responding to what is arising in our work together and feels the most helpful for the process, even as it changes. FOR MORE ABOUT MY THERAPY AND SOMATIC EXPERIENCING SERVICES

Workshops

The workshops and practices I facilitate use our bodies, our imaginations, our creativity, our emotions, and our intuitive minds to be more of who we are. They bring together the deeper, and sometimes unconscious, parts of who we are with the tangible experience of being a body on this earth.

This work presupposes a wisdom and intuitive knowledge within each of us that can reveal and express the complex layers of our experiences in creative ways.

The hope is that the workshops offered here will be an open and non-judgmental space of invitation to connect to and express ourselves through multiple mediums. It isn’t intended to be therapy or a training of any kind, but rather a way to take time for self-exploration and self-discovery that is primarily and foremost for you and your body/heart/mind/soul. MORE ABOUT SOMA AND THE SOUL / FOR MORE ABOUT WORKSHOPS