Offering clients the benefits of mind and body-oriented sessions for relief and restoration from stress and trauma. 

Connect with Victoria by email. After that, we set up a 90 minute initial assessment session. 

Initial 90 Minute session: $225.00

Sessions: $150.00 per hour;  pro-rated for extended time 

Payment options: 

Credit card, cash or Health Savings Card

Scheduling: I offer day time appointments. My last appointment begins at 2:30.  

Email Victoria here 

Beginning Therapy: 

At the beginning, SE will feel like familiar "talk therapy" where you might share about your current concerns and situation, what you'd like to be different, and what is going well in your life. 

I'll teach what is important to know about the nervous system so that we have a common language and understanding of why it's relevant, and how this will help. 

We will be curious about how you might be experiencing your emotions or thoughts in your body, such as tension, tight muscles, or a pleasant experience like breathing easily and feeling a sense of warmth in your face or chest. You may have no idea and feel nothing...and that is ok and not unusual. 

You can't do this wrong! 

We are supporting your nervous system to have some flow and flexibility, versus feeling "stuck" in states that feel rigid and tense, or kind of numb. 

In session that will look like pauses to slow down experiences so you can move through and integrate a new experience, while you're observing and curious, and supported by your therapist. 

You learn some methods we practice in session, and learn to use them more on your own. This is a gentle therapy.  

What is NOT happening: 

Somatic Experiencing does NOT  include poses, yoga, massage, Physical Therapy, or any physical adjustments, chiropractic care, or Reiki. 

Somatic Experiencing Touch and Table Work (optional):

The body holds trauma, and gently attending to the physical body in therapy sessions can be very helpful and restorative. 

Somatic Experiencing trains therapists to use support that includes physical contact, as one component of SE. 

You may see a massage table in many SE therapist offices,  as we are trained to provide nervous system support (not massage) on a table (fully clothed).  

This is ALWAYS optional. 

This specific approach is designed to help regulate the nervous system, with physical contact over areas of the body that are known to store trauma. 

Common areas that hold trauma are joints, kidneys and adrenals, musculature, and diaphragms. This develops a result of stuck signaling in the brain/body. 

Somatic Experiencing supports the body to naturally allow stored trauma to release, and stuck signaling to re-organize. This is true whether you have table work, or regular SE sessions. 

There is hope. The brain and body are created with resilience; with a built in re-shaping system. Across the lifespan, changing the brain/body is possible. 

Email Victoria here 

I have 22 years of experience working with trauma and chronic stress 

Trauma Specialist: 

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (a 3 year program) as well as advanced EMDR therapy training, to offer more mind-body connection support and a deeper level of lasting healing for you. 

M.S. in Marriage & Family Therapy - uniquely equipped to support you in relationship dynamics. 

Extensive ongoing education 

I don't schedule a high number of sessions, so that I'm healthy myself and can be emotionally, mentally and physically present and available for you. 

Real life, lived experience. I have experienced trauma, joy, anxiety and triumph. All of it.  I'm aware that I'm always evolving as a person - like all of us. 

I offer both!