About Me
Integrative Somatic Practitioner
and capacity builder.
I work with people who carry a lot — healers, leaders, caregivers, educators — who are tired of powering through and ready to practice presence under pressure.
Many of us come to this work through survival. Therapy and insight are real and valuable — and still, understanding what happened doesn't always create the ease, confidence, and connection we're longing for. Sometimes the mind gets it before the body does.
My own turning point came through the body. Learning to track sensation, listen to my nervous system, and trust the intelligence beneath my protective patterns changed how I led, related, and rested.
Now I lead with what's on the other side of survival: capacity, self-trust, and embodied leadership.
This work is body-based, consent-centered, and relational. We may draw on somatic practices, mindful movement, breathwork, nervous system education, and touch-based modalities — all paced to what you need.
What we're building together:
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Regulation and Recovery- Steadier internal states and a shorter path back to yourself when life pulls you offline.
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Resilience Under Pressure -The capacity to stay present through conflict, feedback, uncertainty, and visibility.
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Boundary Intelligence- A felt sense of yes, no, and not yet — and the ability to hold your limits without collapsing or bracing.
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Relational Repair & Co-Regulation-Fewer rupture cycles, more trust, and the skills to repair when things break down.
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You will never be pushed to override your limits in the name of growth. We build capacity with pacing, precision, and respect — because that's what capacity-building actually requires.
My Professional Training
My approach is both intuitive and rigorously trained. I blend modalities that support emotional, physical, cultural, and spiritual layers of healing.
My training includes Somatic Experiencing®, Trauma Recovery Coaching, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapies, Myofascial Release, and Stretch Therapy, and Haitian Ralé — an ancestral energetic clearing practice rooted in my Haitian lineage. I draw from both academic rigor and embodied lineage, holding this work as both a practice and a responsibility.
With each modality, my aim is the same: to help you return to yourself with more ease, presence, and choice.
I am not a licensed mental health clinician. I do not provide psychotherapy. If your needs fall outside my scope, or if you would be better served by clinical care, I will refer out with care.
If you’re ready to build the skills that help you stay connected to yourself, especially when life gets real, I’d be honored to support you.
Who I Work With
I support women who are ready to build nervous system capacity—so they can lead themselves with clarity, steadiness, and care. Many of my clients are Black women, first-generation daughters, cycle-breakers, leaders, caregivers, and creatives carrying complex emotional and ancestral stories.
You may resonate with this work if you:
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Feel disconnected from your body
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Want clearer boundaries and deeper self-trust
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Move between overwhelm and shutdown
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Have a hard time landing in rest; even when life slows down
Or if you:
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Have done insight-based work but still feel stuck in old protective patterns
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Desire more ease, presence, and choice—especially under pressure
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Want more joy, ease, and presence in your relationships and your leadership
All of you is welcome here.
Why People Work With Me
“My body finally feels like a place I can trust.”
Many clients come to me after realizing that insight alone isn’t enough. That their bodies are still bracing, racing, or carrying old protective patterns. What makes this work different is integration: we build the capacity to stay connected to yourself in real life, not just in reflection.
With me, you will:
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Expand your window of regulation—so recovery is faster and steadiness is more accessible
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Build capacity at the pace of your body, not the pressure of survival
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Honor your cultural and ancestral truth as part of your capacity
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Experience partnership rooted in consent, agency, and respect
What clients experience inside Radical Presence
About Barbara
Meet Dr. Barbara Ceptus Schreiber
Somatic coach, intuitive bodyworker, and fifth-generation healer supporting trauma survivors, leaders, and community healers with body-based, equity-rooted practices.
Barbara blends Somatic Experiencing®, myofascial work, ancestral wisdom, and consent-centered coaching to help clients build nervous system capacity—and come home to themselves from the inside out.
