My Services

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy is a bodywork method that focuses on gently stimulating the Craniosacral system (membranes and fluid that surround the brain and spinal cord) to heal the body by improving the functioning of the central nervous system.

CST effectively complements your body’s natural healing process, and has been known to help alleviate a wide variety of symptoms associated with:

  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Depression
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Obsessive Behavior
  • Panic Attacks
  • Trauma

Holistic Counseling

Holistic Counseling is informative, self-reflective and supportive allowing an opportunity to re-evaluate habitual, sometimes unconscious behaviors that may not be supporting your life.  With awareness, you can make new choices.

Diet is a good example.  What we eat has a direct affect on how we feel.  And how we feel has a direct affect on our thoughts.  Frequently, stress interferes with our ability to give ourselves the nourishment that we need and deserve.   Discussing reasonable ways to make small changes creates the beginning of a life-changing process.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing® was developed by Dr. Peter Levine.  Dr. Levine states, “Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the dangerous event itself. They arise when residual energy from the event is not discharged from the body. This energy remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and minds.”

Somatic Experiencing utilizes the awareness of body sensation to help people "negotiate" and heal their traumas rather than relive them.  With appropriate guidance with the body's instinctive "felt sense", individuals are able to access their body's wisdom, allowing the highly aroused survival energies to be safely and gradually discharged.  When these energies are discharged, people frequently experience a dramatic reduction in or disappearance of their traumatic symptoms.

The transformation process can allow people to deepen their sense of self and others.  The healing journey can be an "awakening" to untapped resources and feelings of empowerment.

Valerie is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, certified by Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute.