What Happens in a Session?
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.
9500 Roosevelt Way NE, #210 Seattle, WA 98115
(Inside Sunstone Massage & Assoc.)
The building has its own parking lot on the south side, and an elevator.
Sessions are always 60 minutes.
I accept checks, cash, Zelle, or Venmo payments. Please contact me for fee information.
“I’m still in awe of how gentle but effective it was.”
Together, through attuned dialogue and collaborative, structurally-informed bodywork, we will listen, decipher, and explore all that your body has to say.
We are having two active con
versations together; one through words, one through touch.
“Connection is what heals.”
The bodywork takes place in a quiet room, on a comfortable massage table.
The space is ambient, welcoming and peaceful.
Your bodywork takes place fully clothed, so wear comfortable clothing.
Each 60 minute session includes attuned dialogue that informs the bodywork, leading to greater personal discovery and practical skills to take out into the world.
Clients describe sessions as safe spaces to work on themselves without judgment and enjoy the chance to engage with and understand what their pain and tension might be trying to say.
Clients report feeling calm and comfortable after a session. They feel more connected to themselves, and that their bodies make more sense to themselves.
My goal is always to help you discover and embody practical skills and ways of being and communicating that you can take with you into your life, relationships, and work environments.
Together, our dialogue, attunement, and somatic exploration facilitates change and growth. Sometimes, people have already engaged in cognitive, or “talk",” therapy, and may feel as if they can understand the issues in their mind, but they don’t “feel” it in their body. As if their body hasn’t been included.
I think cognitive therapy is absolutely helpful, but it is cognitive. I see - and work with - the body, mind, and nervous system as an aggregate; a person’s history in total, and not disparate or compartmentalized parts. Body and mind must be connected. This is where my somatic approach can help marry all of your parts; cognition with sensation, comprehension with embodiment, feelings and emotions experienced and understood.
Clients generally know within one to two sessions whether my approach is a good fit.
My favorite mug! @lindsaybraman
During hands on, I might ask:
“Where do you feel this in your body?”
“What are you experiencing as I work on your knee/arm/neck/feet?”
“Can you describe the sensations in this area of your body? Cold, hot, sharp, fizzy, achy, solid, unmoving, etc?”
“What do you know about this sensation/memory/feeling?”
“Can I take over ‘holding’ a particular tension pattern so we can experience together how much work it’s been doing?”
http://www.joywalker-spre.com/body-language/blog-post-where-do-you-feel-that
“Neural plasticity means that new information, new neural firing, can help the brain heal itself. But as the literature on recovery from stroke and traumatic brain injury illustrates, building new neural pathways and networks takes long, hard work. In the case of relational trauma, the new pathways don’t replace networks that have been destroyed. Instead, new pathways connect what’s been dissociated and open up what’s been blocked or stunted. ”
We generally rely on attuning with our clients and their nervous systems, in person, to effect change. However, it is an attuned connection with a trusted person that creates co-regulation; a way of being internally that’s healthier, and greater relational ease. That relational attunement is achieved through eye contact, body language, and supportive verbalizing, all of which can be shared through on-line sessions.
