Restoring your innate capacity to heal
Compassionate, attuned, and trauma-informed nervous system and somatic healing support for women.
Hi! I’m Lyss
—a passionate trauma-informed and trauma-trained somatic practitioner. I combine evidence-based modalities with intuitive guidance/nervous system attunement to support my clients in regulating their nervous systems, building stress resilience, integrating all parts of themselves, accessing more inner safety and agency, and naturally resolving/renegotiating trauma stored in the body. My approach is grounded in compassion, safety, and an understanding of the body’s innate ability to heal when given the right tools, attunement, and environment.
I’m trained in and/or currently training in Somatic Experiencing®, the gold standard for body-based trauma resolution, Somatic Stress Release™, Somatic Parts Work (a somatic variation of IFS), Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, and Titrated Breathwork Modalities. We’ll use a combination of these practices, as well as ongoing nervous system education, to support your system.
Healing happens through attunement—meeting ourselves exactly where we are, building more capacity to ride the natural expansions and contractions of life, being seen and held by a loving witness, and RECLAIMING our choice, agency, power, and life force.
TAILORED SERVICES
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Somatic Experiencing is a gentle, body-based approach to healing trauma that focuses on the wisdom your body holds. When trauma occurs, the body can become “stuck” in cycles of stress or tension, unable to fully process through it and return to baseline. SE helps us tune into the physical sensations in our bodies, which allows us to gradually complete these cycles, restoring flexibility to the nervous system.
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Polyvagal Theory is a framework for understanding how our nervous system responds to danger and safety. It explains how our body shifts between states of safety, fight/flight, freeze, and shutdown, based on cues we receive from our environment, in our bodies, and between other people. By understanding these shifts, we can learn to regulate our nervous system, honor our survival responses, and gradually shift toward more safety and connection.
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Somatic Stress Release is a gentle, yet powerful technique that focuses on supporting the nervous system in completing unfinished stress responses, allowing us to restore balance and build capacity to navigate life’s challenges with more ease. We focus on small, intentional movements to prevent overwhelm.
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Somatic Parts Work is a compassionate, body-focused approach that helps us connect with the various parts of ourselves that hold trauma, fear, or unresolved emotions, as well as our joys and childlike energy. By tuning into these parts, we can begin to understand and integrate them with care, reparent them, access more play, and reclaim lost aspects of ourselves and build a stronger sense of wholeness.
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Trauma-Informed Breathwork is a gentle and empowering approach that uses the breath as a tool for healing and nervous system regulation. This practice is designed to honor where you are in your healing journey, providing a safe and supportive space for you to reconnect with your body’s natural rhythms. By cultivating awareness of the breath, we can shift stuck energy and gently guide the nervous system into a state of balance. Trauma-informed breathwork respects the body’s pace and ensures we move at a pace that feels safe, supportive, and sustainable, helping to build resilience and capacity for future challenges.
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Mind-Body Healing is an integrative approach that acknowledges the deep connection between our mind, body, and emotions. It recognizes that our body holds wisdom about our experiences, and that healing happens when we tune into the messages our body is sending. I often combine somatic techniques, mindfulness, cognitive processing, visualizations, and body awareness in sessions for a holistic experience.
We are hardwired for survival, meaning our nervous system naturally looks for cues of danger over safety. And, equally intense cues of safety get less attention than intense cues of danger; we often miss the cues of safety that are available in and around us. The process of cultivating inner safety is unique to ALL of us; it’s about getting curious about what is possible for us, beyond the familiar, with guidance and support from an empathetic witness (trauma-trained practitioner).
Trauma = too much, too fast, too soon, or not getting enough of what we need for too long (i.e., unmet needs). Trauma leaves an imprint on our nervous system, body, and mind, keeping us stuck in patterns of survival, often from a young age.
Somatic work moves in the opposite direction; healing happens in slowness; by building awareness around our nervous system states, learning how to show (not tell) our body that safety is possible (now), and building the capacity—over time—to start working with activation, reparent our inner parts (‘inner child’), heal attachment wounds, and complete stress responses that didn’t get to complete in the past, helping to restore the innate flow and flexibility in our nervous systems.