Become a Somatic Practitioner who can handle real activation safely

For the past 18+ years, I’ve devoted my life to understanding how trauma lives in the body, and how people actually change. I hold a master’s degree in Somatic Psychology. I’m a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. And I’ve taught trauma and attachment work to therapists, healers, and helping professionals.

But what shaped my frameworks most was not studying. It was sitting in real rooms with real people. I’ve done 1:1 work and worked in treatment centers for more than a decade. I’ve watched what helps people come back into their bodies, and what quietly makes things worse, the difference between someone understanding a concept and someone being able to apply it in the exact moment a nervous system tips into overwhelm.

That gap is a big reason I created this live training. I see too many new practitioners getting burned out. They give away their work for free, hoping it leads to something later. They take trainings that are dense and impressive on paper, but light on real practice. Then a client gets flooded, collapses, or spins into panic, and the practitioner freezes. Not because they’re bad, but because nobody trained them for the moment.

Where this began for me is personal.

At 12 years old, my system was in collapse. I was addicted. I couldn’t focus. My body was overloaded with panic, migraines, dissociation, and a constant sense of danger. By 14, I was in 12-step meetings, surrounded by people drowning in trauma, and I began to see something clearly: addiction wasn’t the root problem. The nervous system was.

That realization started an obsession. I studied trauma physiology, recovery, somatic work, meditation, and attachment, and rebuilt my life from the inside out, one small piece of capacity at a time. Years later, working in treatment centers, I sat with hundreds of people a year at the edge of their trauma. Frozen, flooded, collapsed, terrified. It was there that the framework I now teach came together, not as a philosophy, but as something practical: gentle enough for sensitive nervous systems, and specific enough to guide you when things get intense.

Today

Today, I live a life I once thought was impossible. I’m present, connected, sober, grounded. I’m married. I do work I love. And I get to help people reshape patterns they once thought were permanent. If you’re here because you want to become the kind of practitioner who can stay steady, help people safely, and build a sustainable practice without politics or burnout, that’s why I made this.