This is why I provide somatic therapy and EMDR Therapy: "We remember trauma with our feelings and our bodies."
quotation by Janina Fisher, Ph.D
Victoria offers support with these body-mind approaches:
Somatic Therapy
Women, Cycles and the Nervous System
Somatic Therapy
Somatic comes from the Greek word Soma, which means "of the living body."
Receive support for your nervous system regulation, and capacity to respond to life the way that you want to respond.
Regulation is more than just feeling calm or peaceful - regulation is really about flexibly responding to the reality of the current moment.
If we a
Somatic comes from the Greek word Soma, which means "of the living body."
Receive support for your nervous system regulation, and capacity to respond to life the way that you want to respond.
Regulation is more than just feeling calm or peaceful - regulation is really about flexibly responding to the reality of the current moment.
If we are over-reacting to situations, or under-reacting, there is something we can do about it.
Learn about how to befriend your nervous system, move through high stress, complete defense responses that are incomplete, and try every day body-mind tools to find your center.
EMDR Therapy
Women, Cycles and the Nervous System
Somatic Therapy
Receive support to get through past experiences that are keeping you stuck.
If you get triggered and that is causing you suffering and stress in your relationships and in your body, there is another way.
We essentially time travel with EMDR, with an ultimate focus on your present life and a new future.
Because of the unfinished past, it c
Receive support to get through past experiences that are keeping you stuck.
If you get triggered and that is causing you suffering and stress in your relationships and in your body, there is another way.
We essentially time travel with EMDR, with an ultimate focus on your present life and a new future.
Because of the unfinished past, it can makes things feel and look foggy or distorted or impossible.
Explore new clarity and possibilities with EMDR Therapy.
it is highly researched and evidence based to help resolve trauma and PTSD. Beyond that, it can support us to grow our capacity to move forward in life and let go of negative thoughts or fog that has kept us stuck.
You don't have to have a "terrible trauma" to benefit from EMDR Therapy.
Women, Cycles and the Nervous System
Women, Cycles and the Nervous System
Women, Cycles and the Nervous System
This work honors the cyclical nature of being female—supporting you in how you relate to yourself, your body, your relationships, and the evolving seasons of your life.
Perimenopause and menopause hormonal changes affect our nervous system regulation, and trauma resolution itself.
Learn somatic skills to navigate whatever season you might
This work honors the cyclical nature of being female—supporting you in how you relate to yourself, your body, your relationships, and the evolving seasons of your life.
Perimenopause and menopause hormonal changes affect our nervous system regulation, and trauma resolution itself.
Learn somatic skills to navigate whatever season you might be in, both the outer season (weather) and inner seasons - your life cycle or female cycle.
Your therapy, especially if you're working through trauma resolution, will be more helpful when we consider this impactful dimension of your being.
Your whole self is included here!
Co-Founder of Water Street Family Counseling
My colleague Carmen McHenry and myself founded Water Street Family Counseling together in 2012, after working together since 2000 in a community counseling agency setting.
We are happy to welcome clients into this home, and create a warm and comfortable atmosphere to support healing.