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Somatic Coaching Services

Explore the connections between your body, mind, and lived experience.

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I really can’t say whether everything happens for a reason, but what I can say is that everything is connected: your body and your mind, your physical symptoms and current life events, and your pain, illness, or dysfunction and your lived experiences.

I can help you find and explore those connections—and help you grow new ones that should have been there all along.

It is my privilege to work with the entirety of you.

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Who Somatic Coaching May Help

I work with people who are interested in understanding themselves more deeply and are willing to practice the skills and tools we develop together.

Somatic coaching may be supportive if you are navigating:

  • Chronic pain or unnecessary tension

  • Stress, anxiety, or difficulty regulating

  • Trouble focusing or ADHD-like symptoms

  • Harsh or critical internal dialogue

  • Disconnection from your body

  • Patterns related to developmental or religious trauma

  • Difficulty identifying what you need or want

  • A desire for greater ease, clarity, and self-trust

At the most basic level, your body, brain, and nervous system are trying to keep you safe and alive. Together, we can gently inquire into what you are experiencing, understand what your system is communicating, and explore new options.

How It Works

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How Somatic Coaching Works

Our work together is collaborative, curious, and grounded in the body.

We may begin with a physical symptom, emotional experience, relationship pattern, internal conflict, or situation in your life. From there, I help you slow down and notice what is happening in your body, mind, and nervous system.

Together, we may explore:

  • Pain, tension, posture, breath, or movement

  • Emotions, thoughts, and internal dialogue

  • Nervous system responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown

  • Beliefs, habits, and protective patterns

  • Conflicting needs or different parts of yourself

  • What helps you experience greater safety, ease, and choice

I don’t simply do something to you. I include you in the discovery of your tension patterns, belief systems, adaptations, and nervous system “settings.”

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My Approach

My work is rooted in SPRe®, or Somatic Personal Resonance Education.

SPRe combines two processes:

  • Listening to and responding to the somatic language of your body

  • Exploring your cognitive and emotional awareness through attuned conversation

My approach also draws from structurally informed bodywork, Polyvagal theory, somatic parts work, attachment theory, neuroscience, and years of experience working with the body, mind, and nervous system.

The goal is not to force change. It is to build awareness, create new experiences, and help you discover that the way you have been doing something in your body—or in your life—is not the only way available to you.

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What You May Gain

Our work may help you:

  • Understand connections between physical symptoms and emotional experiences

  • Recognize patterns of tension, protection, and adaptation

  • Develop greater body and emotional awareness

  • Build a more supportive relationship with your nervous system

  • Find new options for movement, communication, and response

  • Experience more comfort, clarity, connection, and choice

You and your body have been through a lot together. Somatic coaching offers a place to listen to those experiences with curiosity and explore what may now feel more comfortable and effective.

What People Are Saying

  • “Joy is a safe place. She is very nurturing, warm, attuned, caring, and skilled. She offers a unique mix of psychotherapy and hands on bodywork that has brought beautiful IFS (internal family systems) parts work more into the body and creativity, leading to healing, insight, and transformation. I am very grateful to have found Joy and highly recommend her for your healing and growth journey.”

    — X. G.

  • “I’m still in awe of how gentle but effective it was.”

    — SPRe Client

  • “It helps me practice understanding my chronic pain, and engaging with it; instead of being angry with it, just trying to understand what its trying to say.”

    — SPRe Client

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FAQs

  • My office is in the Maple Leaf neighborhood in Seattle, WA. SPRe Bodywork is traditionally performed in-person. I also provide remote sessions for high-risk or geographically distant clients.

  • Sessions are always 60 minutes.

  • I accept checks, cash, Zelle, or Venmo payments. Please contact me for fee information.

Let’s Work Together

Somatic coaching sessions are offered in person in Seattle.

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