My Approach
Somatic Leadership Rooted in Science, Spirit, & Ancestral Wisdom
Coming home to yourself takes more than understanding your story. It requires the practiced ability to stay in relationship with your body—especially under pressure—so you can make clean decisions, hold boundaries, repair rupture, and live with integrity.
My approach blends multiple healing traditions and evidence-based modalities into a gentle, culturally-rooted, trauma-aware practice that meets you exactly where you are.
I call this work Integrative Somatic Leadership — a whole-body, whole-self path to presence, capacity, and liberation.
What It Means to work with me
As an Integrative Somatic Practitioner, I draw from several disciplines to support different layers of capacity-building:
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Your nervous system
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Your emotional landscape
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Your physical body and fascia
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Your cultural and ancestral identity
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Your inner child and protective parts
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Your capacity for joy, pleasure, boundaries, and rest
Rather than using just one method, I weave together approaches that support the full spectrum of your lived experience: psychological, somatic, ancestral, relational, and spiritual.
Integration means:
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You don’t have to choose between insight-based support and body-based practice.
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You don’t have to force your body to open before it’s ready.
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You don’t have to abandon your culture, your story, or your unique identity to grow.
Your whole self is welcome here.
Capacity Domains We Build Together
This work becomes practical when we repeat the same skills over time. Across sessions, we build:
Regulation and Recovery
Develop steadier internal states and shorten the time it takes to come back online.
Resilience Under Pressure
Stay present in conflict, feedback, uncertainty, visibility, and change, without abandoning yourself.
Boundary Intelligence
Sense your “yes,” “no,” and “not yet,” and hold limits without collapse, guilt, or aggression.
Relational Repair and Co-Regulation
Reduce rupture cycles, increase trust-building behaviors, and strengthen your ability to return to connection.
Key elements of my coaching practice include:
Resourcing and Grounding
Strengthening a felt sense of support by anchoring in the present and accessing internal/external resources.
Boundary Practice
Developing clear, embodied boundaries that honor your needs, values, and pace.
Self-Regulation
Building skills to soothe, settle, and widen your window of tolerance during stress or overwhelm.
Movement & Breath
Using gentle movement, breathwork, and guided practices to release tension and deepen body connection.
Co-Regulation
Exploring how safe connection supports stability, repair, and emotional balance.
Myofascial Stretch
Hands-on work (with explicit consent) that supports release, mobility, and deeper breath.
Modalities Used
Somatic Experiencing® (SE)
Somatic Coaching
Nervous system-led integration
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-based, trauma-informed approach that helps you gently release stress and protective patterning held in the nervous system.
Through slow tracking of sensation, grounding, breath, and micro-movements, SE helps you:
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Build capacity for intensity without flooding or shutdown
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Reduce chronic tension, anxiety, or numbness
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Strengthen boundaries, repair, and relational integrity
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Move from survival-based urgency into paced, values-aligned action
Myofascial Release & Stretch Therapy
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Compassionate, empowering support for your healing journey
This Coaching supports you to:
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Recognize protective patterns and the needs beneath them
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Rebuilding self-trust through consistent embodied practice
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Strengthen boundaries, repair, and relational integrity
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Moving from survival-based urgency into paced, values-aligned action
Note: coaching does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions.If clinical care is needed, I will refer out with care.
Haitian Ralé (Energetic Clearing)
Supporting the body where it holds tension, memory, and emotion
Your fascia is the connective tissue that wraps the body and often reflects holding patterns shaped by stress, posture, and lived experience.
Through intuitive, gentle hands-on techniques and guided movement, we may:
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Release chronic guarding (chest, hips, pelvis, jaw, shoulders)
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Support breath, mobility, circulation, and softness
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Create space for deeper rest and self-connection
Many clients say, “I didn’t know how tired or tight I was until I felt myself relax.”
Ancestral grounding and spiritual alignment
Ralé is a gentle facial stretch and release practice rooted in Haitian healing traditions.
It supports:
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Clearing heaviness from the body
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Restoring vitality and flow
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Inviting grounding, clarity, and alignment
This practice honors my Haitian lineage and the cultural traditions that shaped how I understand the body, spirit, and healing. Ralé is rhythmic, intuitive, and deeply respectful.
Clients often describe it as:
“A cleansing that feels like my body remembers something ancient and true.”
Why This Integrative Approach Works
When we combine nervous system work, embodied coaching, fascial release, and ancestral grounding, something powerful happens:
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The mind relaxes
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The body softens
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The spirit clears
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The nervous system reorganizes
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The heart becomes more available
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Your inner world becomes safer to inhabit
You begin to move through the world with more:
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Ease
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Capacity
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Presence
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Emotional range
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Confidence
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Connection
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Joy
This is not about patching symptoms. It’s about building a life you can stay inside.
Sessions are grounded, spacious, and deeply relational.
A typical experience may include:
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A check-in with your body and nervous system
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Gentle somatic tracking (sensations, impulses, breath)
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Resourcing practices to support steadiness
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Guided movement, breathwork, or release practices
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Myofascial or intuitive touch (if in person and explicitly consented to)
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Integration + next steps
Everything we do is at your pace.
Nothing is forced.
Your body leads the way.
What Sessions Feel Like
Is Somatic Coaching Right for You?
This work may be a meaningful next step if you’re ready to deepen body connection and build real-world capacity—especially in the moments that matter.
Consider whether any of these resonate with you:
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Feel disconnected from your body or inner “yes/no”
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Move between overwhelm and shutdown
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Struggle with boundaries or self-trust
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Feel “stuck,” even after insight-based work
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Want to stop abandoning yourself
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Want more steadiness, presence, joy, and ease
You don’t have to know where to start.
Your body already carries the signal.
We uncover that path together.
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