Co-Regulating Touchwork supports your body to naturally unwind the effects of trauma, reorienting your body towards safety, connection and ease.

Pre-verbal trauma

Developmental Trauma (childhood)

Relationship Trauma

Chronic Stress

Anxiety

Depression

Trauma at any age

Car accidents

Falls

Life changes & transitions

Chronic Illness

Medical Trauma

Preparation for Surgery

Co-Regulating Touchwork is a gentle approach for trauma resolution. 

Touchwork is a branch of Somatic Experiencing® Therapy. 

We focus on working with your body's stress physiology, so that you have more ease in your body, emotions and mind.  

In some cases when an experience is overwhelming for our system, our body might not have a chance to move through the natural cycle of a stress response, and resolve it. Something may have kept us from doing what our body wanted to do at the time. Such as run, push away, get away, defend yourself, fight or say something. 

In some cases, such as childhood ongoing trauma, the cycle doesn't complete because threats are repeated or ongoing. A child doesn't get to successfully fight or flee when they are dependent on their parents, and smaller in size. 

So we are often stuck in freeze; a natural, biological protective response of stillness or shutdown, to feel or experience the least pain. The body believes there is not another option. It is not a cognitive choice.  

This stress pattern of staying stuck in fight/flight or freeze without relief, can carry on into adulthood. 

The patterns can be changed, even years later. 

In these cases, we are together looking for where your system may have been held back from completion. We offer your system the support it needs to re-organize and come back in to that settled, safe & social branch of the nervous system. 

Victoria provides Co-Regulating Touchwork for

women in their mid 30's and up, who are experiencing feeling "stuck" in some aspect of life. 

Contact Victoria.

A session always begins seated in our chairs, having conversation about your concerns and plans for our focus today. We could be focusing on an emotion, a physical symptom, a thought, something you are anticipating,  or a memory. 

If you choose to do some Touchwork, 

you're invited to lay down on a massage table on your back, fully dressed.

Hand placements by the practitioner are light, in areas known to hold trauma patterns such as joints (shoulders, wrists, ankles) adrenals (your back) and brainstem (the back of your head). 

We talk some during the session, communicating about what sensations, thoughts or feelings you are having. We listen to your body to understand both how it's holding stress and what it needs to complete or release the held pattern.

This is not a spa experience, Reiki, massage nor does it involve any physical manipulation. It is none of those things. We track what comes up in your body, and support completion of a naturally arising sequence of experiences (thoughts/sensations/images/emotions/movements that might express in the body). Instead of stuffing or shutting down what you feel, you receive support to let your body's response complete.  

Non verbal, pre-verbal and childhood trauma leave imprints, sometimes without stories or pictures or explanations. Sometimes there are full memories. The good news is we can work on resolution without the story or memory.  

This gentle approach does not rely on knowing or verbally processing the "story" of what happened, or didn't happen. 

The healing happens in the here and now,  by co-regulating with a regulated, present practitioner, who supports you and responds to your in-the-moment experience.  

With somatic processing we gently work towards trauma resolution.