Somatic Therapy
for adults, teens, & relationships
Change is inevitable, and healing is possible.
Welcome
I’m Shallyn.
I’m a somatic therapist.
I work with adults, teens, and relationships.
My approach is relational, gentle, body-centered, and collaborative.
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Life is endlessly complex and challenging — full of obstacles, barriers, losses, changes, and nos that we wish were yeses.
And yet, “I know no greater catalyst of creativity — in art or in life — than constraint. It is the boundaries, chosen or imposed, that give shape to our lives: it is within them that we become truly creative about the kind of life we want to live (Maria Popova).”
Somatic therapy invites us into our lived and felt experience, into our bodies, into our attention, and into our creativity. Somatic therapy teaches us how to bring our gentlest attention to the rough edges of life, allowing us to love ourselves, our life, others, and this world more softly.
Through this kind of attention, we can experience the life we're living and the body we're inhabiting as singular and wild, precious and ever-changing.
“To pay attention: this is our endless and proper work.”
— Mary Oliver
I, most often, work with folks who don’t feel at ease in their bodies. This can look a lot of different ways, but the folks who tend to find their way to this work are often navigating their relationship to or society’s relationship to:
living with chronic illness as a teen or adult
queerness & gender identity
burnout, overwork, & career transitions
grief, loss, & change
attachment patterns in relationships
relationship models & transitions
oppression trauma
anxiety/panic, depression, CPTSD, & PTSD
Our work together will hold space for what’s hard while also inviting us into connection with the
joy
play
transformation
multiplicity
embodiment
resilience
relationship
wonder
pleasure
awe
liberation
healing
that is already available, already here, already happening.
“Only deep attention may notice the exquisite richness beyond the surface merits, the shy peculiar details by which we matter to ourselves.”
-Maria Popova
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gender-affirming, kink-informed, & poly-friendly therapy
