Hi, I am Genevieve
I’m a heart-centered, trauma-informed therapist who believes healing happens through both understanding and experience—through what we think and feel, and through what happens in the body and nervous system. Drawing from Somatic Experiencing, neurobiology, and attachment theory, I help adults navigate anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, and life transitions. My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the belief that your body and nervous system hold valuable information about what you need to heal, grow, and move toward greater ease.
Somatic therapy is an approach that recognizes that our experiences are held not only in our thoughts and emotions, but also in our bodies and nervous systems. Rather than focusing solely on talking about what happened, somatic work gently brings awareness to sensations, impulses, emotions, and patterns of activation in the body. Through this process, we can begin to understand how the nervous system has learned to respond to stress, relationships, and experiences of protection or threat. For those healing from trauma, this can create a pathway toward integrating experiences that may still be held as patterns of activation, avoidance, or protection in the body. By creating new experiences of safety, choice, and connection, somatic therapy can support neurobiological change—helping the nervous system develop greater flexibility and capacity.
Somatic work is about accessing the authentic self
When protection softens, choice and freedom grow.
Increased nervous system capacity means having more freedom to respond rather than automatically reacting from old patterns of protection. Through somatic work, we can begin to notice where we become “hooked” into familiar cycles of anxiety, reactivity, shutdown, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or disconnection. As the nervous system develops greater capacity for sensation, emotion, uncertainty, and connection, these patterns can become less automatic. We gain more choice, flexibility, and freedom—what was once threatening can begin to feel more manageable. As protective patterns soften, there is more room for the authentic self to emerge, bringing greater freedom to move through the world with connection, choice, and aliveness.
A little about nature
I’m also a Registered Horticultural Therapist, and I sometimes bring the healing potential of nature and plants into my work. Nature can offer powerful opportunities for grounding, resourcing, presence, and connection—helping us slow down, orient to the present moment, and expand nervous system capacity.
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