Healing trauma. Restoring balance. Reclaiming your life force. 
"Trauma resolved is a great gift, returning us to the natural world of
ebb and flow, empowerment, harmony, and compassion."
~ Peter A Levine PhD, Founder of Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), developed by Dr. Peter Levine, is a gentle yet powerful approach to healing trauma and unresolved stress. It’s based on something nature already knows: in the wild, animals regularly face life-threatening events but rarely become traumatized. Their bodies instinctively process and release the survival energy from those moments.

Humans have the same capacity—but our fast-paced, often overwhelming world doesn’t always give us the time, space, or safety to do so. As a result, the effects of trauma—whether from a single event or accumulated stress—can get “stuck” in the body.
SE helps your nervous system remember how to regulate itself, so you can move from merely coping to feeling more alive, balanced, and engaged with the world.

How SE Works
Trauma isn’t in the event itself—it’s in the way our nervous system is left holding it.

In SE, we work slowly and gently with your body’s sensations, movements, and inner resources to complete the fight, flight, or freeze responses that got interrupted. There’s no need to re-tell or re-live the original experience. Instead, we help your system do what it couldn’t do at the time—releasing the stored tension, restoring balance, and increasing resilience.
 
What is a typical session like?
  • We begin by creating safety in your body and in the space.
  • We work in small, manageable steps—tracking sensation, breath, and movement.
  • You remain in control of the pace and depth of the work at all times.
  • The process is trauma-informed, body-centered, and deeply respectful of your boundaries.
The result? More ease in your body, a calmer mind, a stronger capacity to handle life’s challenges, and a renewed sense of vitality.

Hands-On Somatic Work
In addition to talking and movement-based SE sessions, I also offer hands-on table work. Gentle touch can support deeper regulation, grounding, and release, especially when words aren’t enough.

For those who feel called, I also offer a unique SE + Reiki combination session. Reiki brings in a calming, balancing energy that complements the nervous system work of SE. Together, these approaches can help you soften, restore balance, and reconnect with your innate vitality.

Why Consistency Matters
Somatic work unfolds best when we give your nervous system steady, repeated opportunities to re-pattern. For that reason, I recommend working together on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, especially in the beginning. This consistency helps:
  • Build trust and safety in your body and in our working relationship.
  • Support momentum so your system doesn’t “forget” the progress between sessions.
  • Allow for gradual integration without overwhelming you.

Think of it like learning a new language: your nervous system is re-learning regulation and resilience. Regular practice gives it a chance to settle into these new patterns more deeply and sustainably.

Somatic Experiencing
can help with:

  • Depression
  • Releasing trauma held in the body
  • Reducing chronic stress and anxiety
  • Restoring inner balance
  • Resetting the nervous system
  • Enhancing resilience to stress
  • Increasing your vitality, equanimity, and capacity to actively engage in life
  • Reclaiming your life force energy
  • And much more!
About Me:
I've been a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) since 2015, trained in Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) with Raja Selvam, PhD, and certified in Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists with Kathy Kain.

In addition to my private practice, I serve as an approved Assistant for Somatic Experiencing Trainings.

For students in SE training, I am an Approved Personal Session Provider at the Beginning & Intermediate Levels.

My work is deeply body-based, grounded in the understanding that our nervous system holds the key to healing. I create a safe and supportive space where clients can slow down, sense into their bodies, and begin to shift patterns that have felt stuck for years.

I am equal parts compassionate guide and no-nonsense ally—patient yet steady, deeply present yet willing to challenge when needed. I will walk alongside you as you reclaim your agency and build the capacity for lasting change.

My goal is to help you feel safe enough to go deep, and supported enough to take bold, liberating steps forward.
Please feel free to contact me for a free 15-minute consultation
to see if I'm the right fit for you.

CLICK HERE for session pricing.

For more info about Somatic Experiencing visit www.traumahealing.com

“Working with Stacey is a blessing. Her magical, intuitive hands ease my pain and balance and restore my energy. She’s gentle and generous with her time and knowledge, which is considerable. She’s completely devoted to her work and it shows in the results. One of the things I like best in working with her is that she’s able to combine all her trainings to be the most effective for whatever your body needs at the time. Not only do I get an hour of gentle, peaceful touch in a sacred space, I leave feeling better than when I arrived and, over the weeks of working with her, I get to see an upward trend of overall improvement.”
  • Deborah F., Speech Therapist

"Stacey is wondrously skillful in her Somatic Experiencing sessions, working with such gentleness that it encourages deep trust and supports diving to the heart of issues at hand.  I did her package of 4 and my issues with sleep, that I had worked on for years with other practitioners, disappeared.  So amazing to finally fall asleep easily and sleep 8 hours uninterrupted many nights of the week!  We managed to shift some ground-level issues that were encoded so young that only non-verbal methods like this could access them.  A true master healer!"
  • Evalena Rose, MetaTherapist and Channel

"Working with Stacey was incredibly beneficial and supportive for me on my personal journey of inner work and embodied presence. She guided me to begin feeling more attuned to my emotional body. I highly recommend working with Stacey."
  • Nicki Clark, Owner/ operator Marin Outdoor Adventure
Stacey also offers classes & workshops where she combines
Somatic Experiencing with the Open Floor Movement Practice.
CLICK HERE to find out more about this wonderful combination.
"Trauma is a fact of life. It does NOT, however, have to be a life sentence."
~ Peter A Levine PhD

Articles about Somatic Experiencing
Relationships - Our Hotbeds for Healing and Wholeness
by Alanis Morrisette

Each of us is so unique—every temperament, every brain, every pace and style of learning. Combine just these few factors with our unique histories and varying degrees of having been loved, neglected, cherished or abused, and then mix in the developmental stages that were... Click here for the full article.

Somatic Experiencing:
How Trauma Can Be Overcome
Article in Psychology Today
by Mark Banschick M.D.

Developed by Peter A. Levine, PhD, SE draws from many different disciplines to address the physiology of stress and trauma. Dr. Levine was curious about the fact that animals in the wild aren’t traumatized by their life-and-death existence, while people can be traumatized by events that...  Click here for full article.
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