Are you a trauma survivor that’s done healing work but still feels stuck and like something is missing?
What is most important to you and what you long for, is found through your internal sensations and your gut feelings.
You’ve been in therapy, you’ve tried journaling, meditation, and yoga to navigate living with complex trauma.
You can point to why things happen and you can sometimes catch yourself when you get triggered, but it keeps happening.
You ask yourself, what am I doing wrong? What’s missing? I’ve done so much work, why isn’t it enough?
And maybe is it me?
It’s not you. It’s how you’ve been taught healing works.
In talk therapy and other healing modalities, the focus is often on the our individual cognitive understanding of what happened to us and how we can learn skills to cope with day-to-day life.
But this only helps us to survive and manage with the ways things are now.
In order to get to the root of the problem, we have to discover what self protective responses (i.e fight/flight) didn’t get to happen or who needed to step on your behalf to protect you / meet your needs but didn’t.
Even though we can’t change what happened, we can change how you feel about what happened by having a corrective experience of a past event / experience. This allows old beliefs / thought patterns to be released along with stored energy in the body and for new neural pathways in the brain to form, returning you connected to the present moment, yourself and the world around you.
What Somatics Does That Many Healing Processes Are Missing:
Focus on building safety / capacity to avoid re-traumatization.
Learning to be aware of and how to understand information from our bodies and internal experiences. This where find we find access to our sense of knowing, our truth and who we are.
Connecting with our ancestors and the interlocking systems we live in, in order to deeply heal and move towards liberation at a collective level.
Results of an Embodied Approach to Healing:
Ability to connect with others while holding your own and others needs.
Less triggered, responding intentionally and living your life aligned with what you care about.
Ease and clarity in making decisions and holding your boundaries in situations you used to be overwhelmed in.
Ability to be present and grounded with a wide range of people, emotions, and situations that would be triggering before.
Create possibilities and are creative during conflict instead of breaking down.
Feel supported and have the capacity to be able to love and be loved better.
Out of the isolation of survival mode and into a thriving, vibrant life that flows with less effort.
Somatic Experiencing and Attachment Repatterning offers a holistic way to transform with the end goal of how we behave and think is aligned with our visions and values—even under pressure or the same old conditions.
How Do I Know If I Have Unprocessed Trauma in My Body?
Have you ever found yourself over or under-reacting to a situation for no obvious reason?
Maybe you find yourself screaming at your kids or partner over something really small. Or maybe you shut down when someone gets angry at you.
This is often due to the unresolved energy from the past that is locked in your nervous system.
When stress in our lives exceeds our ability to cope (ie during a highly emotionally overwhelming event) we survive by storing it in our bodies in the forms of flight, fight, freeze, appease, and dissociate so we can process it later when it is safe to do so.
When we are stuck in a survival state for a longer period of time, we continually sense danger when danger is not present, or completely shut down and lose our capacity to live in the present.
So how do we get out of this state and heal?
In order to heal from stress stored in the body, we must return our bodies to a state of equilibrium.
By adding the body into the healing process, we can move beyond only the mental understanding of what happened to us and begin to reprogram the body’s survival instincts, allowing for a greater sense of connection, safety, and ease in the body and life as a whole.
Meet one of my clients
"This work has been some of the hardest but most rewarding work I’ve ever done. Having a session with Cait every week gives me a lot of confidence and courage to do things I don’t think I could do alone.”
"If you are looking to go deeper into your mind, body and spirit than conventional clinical psychotherapy can take you, Cait is a great choice."
-Michael, Client of 4 Years
Results From Working Together:
Processing and moving through really strong emotions that last year would have caused him to dissociate.
Ability to process old emotions and new ones in real time as well as fill himself with new emotions, experiences, and a path forward.
Major reduction in the amount of time spent disassociating, triggered and hypervigilant.
Figuring out where trauma in his body was stored and slowly start releasing it.
Improved/deepened personal relationships and able to support his friends and family in ways he couldn't before.
Able to forgive himself and others.
More patience and overall increase in energy level.
Hi I’m Cait
I am a white, non-binary, able-bodied, neurodivergent human.
Credentials:
Certified DARe Practitioner
Certified TEL Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy
Psychopomp / Specialized Shamanic Practitioner Training under Betsy Bergstrom
I am a survivor of CPTSD, domestic violence, sexual assault, and chronic fatigue / pain.
My work is shaped and informed by animism, ancestral lineage knowledge and repair, and shamanism practices.
I hold an anti-oppressive therapy practice, meaning if desired by the client, bringing awareness to and challenging how patterns of power / societal inequities impact personal struggles.
I live on the territory of the Palta people, colonially known as Vilcabamba, Ecuador for the last 3 years.
I am from the USA, but I’ve lived abroad in over 25 countries for the last 8 years.
1:1 Somatic Coaching
By working together in one-on-one sessions, we can create a safe environment to creatively explore what is keeping you stuck and disconnected by relearning the relationship between your body and mind in order to tap into who you authentically are and what you long for.
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Develop Tools To Build Stability and Safety
Learn how to tolerate and not feel overwhelmed by your internal sensations, how to set boundaries, be in the present moment and regain your right to choose.
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Uncover What Was Missing Or Didn't Happen
Find the memory in the body of what happened, complete the reparative action that didn’t happen in the past, and let go of the energy / emotions from the past.
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Make Meaning & Integrate The Experience
Create a new, more empowered relationship with your mind and body so that your actions are aligned with your values—even under pressure or under the same old conditions.
When entering into the kind of relationship needed to embark on this deeply powerful and transformative healing journey together, reciprocity and equal exchange of energy is paramount. In order for me to be present with you, with deep capacity and focus for your process, I have to be cared for financially and invest time, energy, and money into myself. This includes things like trainings, mental health support, and mentorship.
The below framework (based on the green bottle method) is how we create reciprocity and equal exchange in a way that is aligned and accessible for both of us.
Pricing Structure
Supporter
This rate helps make my work accessible to those financially strained and applies if you have investments, a retirement plan, and/or access to economic abundance.
I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic needs including food, housing, health care, and transportation.
I may have some debt but it doesn’t prohibit me from meeting my basic needs
I own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property
I own or lease a car
I am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs
I have regular access to health care
I have access to financial savings
I have an expendable income meaning I can go to the movies or a concert, buy new clothes, books, and similar items each month, etc.
I can always buy new items
I can afford an annual vacation or take time off
$180-$250
Sustainer
This rate allows me to sustain my work. This typically applies if you’re employed in the Global North, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them
I may have some debt but I can still meet my basic needs
I own or lease a car
I am employed
I have access to health care
I might have access to financial savings
I have some expendable income
I am able to buy some new items & I thrift others
I can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden
$130-$180
Constrained
$100-$130
This rate applies if you’re relatively less economically advantaged in the ways listed under sustainer or that cost is simply out of reach for you financially.
I frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them
I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs
I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
I do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but I am not always able to afford gas
I am unemployed or underemployed
I qualify for government assistance including food stamps & health care
I have no access to savings
I have no or very limited expendable income
I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them
I cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden
There are limited spots for under $100 reserved for BIPOC/Trans folks as well as folks under-going significant economic hardship.
Ready to Begin the Coaching Process?
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1. Book a Consultation Call
No pressure or formal sales pitch conversation for you to ask questions about the process, see if we are a good fit, and notice how you feel being in a space together.
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2. Reconnect
Take some time to let the call settle in and check in with yourself if you feel ready to commit to doing the work in moving towards your goal, if the method I am offering is the best path for you right now and if I am the right person to accompany you on this journey.
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3. Begin 1:1 Somatic Coaching
Together we will equip you with the tools and confidence to become unstuck and out of survival mode into a confident, grounded, and connected way of living in the present.