Trauma Healing & Trauma-Responsive Work

Trauma healing begins with safety, choice, and restoring relationship within the body.

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A Body-Centered, Trauma-Aware Approach

Trauma lives in the body, the nervous system, and the relational field — not only in memory or story.

The work I offer creates a safe, regulated, and attuned container where clients can gently reconnect with sensation, breath, and inner experience without overwhelm. Rather than pushing for catharsis or resolution, we move slowly and respectfully, allowing the system to reorganize in its own time.

This approach supports:

  • Nervous-system regulation and resilience

  • Increased capacity to stay present with sensation and emotion

  • Greater self-trust and embodied choice

  • Integration that continues beyond the session

Healing here is invited, not forced.

 Individual Trauma Healing

I work one-on-one with trauma survivors using a holistic, body-centered mindfulness approach that supports resolution, regulation, and long-term resilience.

This work gently supports the shifting of behavioral and energetic patterns that often arise in response to trauma. By working with the body directly — rather than only through cognition — the healing process continues outside of session and off the mat, supporting sustainable change in daily life.

Sessions are held with deep respect for pacing, consent, and the body’s innate intelligence.

The TIMBo Approach

One of the primary frameworks I work with is TIMBo — a trauma-informed, holistic, somatic-based mindfulness approach to healing trauma.

TIMBo supports personal growth and healing through:

  • Improved self-regulation through mindfulness

  • A compassionate understanding of the body’s survival responses

  • Social-emotional growth and relational attunement

  • Contemplative skills that strengthen sense of self and confidence

  • Development of a resilient worldview that supports meeting life with composure

The TIMBo approach combines:

  • Simple, yoga-inspired movement

  • Relaxation and breath awareness

  • Guided meditation (with optional hands-on support)

  • A workbook-based process to explore emotions such as fear, guilt, shame, and grief

The TIMBo program is typically offered as a 16-week commitment, allowing the work to unfold gradually and integrate deeply.

Going Beyond Cognitive-Only Trauma Models

While many trauma-informed approaches focus primarily on cognitive understanding, this work goes further — embedding practical, embodied skills that can be accessed in real time when trauma responses arise.

Clients and practitioners learn how to:

  • Recognize trauma responses as intelligent survival strategies

  • Meet those responses with compassion rather than judgment

  • Restore regulation when activation occurs

  • Build confidence in navigating difficult internal states

This creates not just insight, but capacity.

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 Trauma-Responsive Consulting & Education

In addition to individual work, I offer trauma-responsive consulting and education for yoga teachers, wellness practitioners, and organizations.

I have brought this work into:

  • 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings

  • Yin Yoga teacher trainings

  • Community facilitator trainings

  • Public health and nonprofit initiatives (local and international)

This includes developing and implementing trauma-responsive protocols that support safety, inclusion, and nervous-system awareness in group and community settings.


 Who This Work Is For

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This work may be supportive if you are:

  • A trauma survivor seeking body-based healing

  • A yoga teacher or practitioner wanting to teach more safely and inclusively

  • A facilitator or organization working with vulnerable populations

  • Someone longing to feel more regulated, resourced, and whole

You do not need to relive your story here.
We work with what is present — gently, respectfully, and with care.


An Invitation

You are welcome to come as you are.

Together, we create the conditions for healing to continue — not only during our time together, but in the rhythms of everyday life

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Inquire About Trauma-Responsive Consulting

For those seeking a slower, ongoing practice to support nervous-system regulation, Yin Yoga offers a gentle and accessible entry point.

Breathwork may be supportive once the body has developed enough safety and capacity to work with increased sensation and energy.

Some individuals are also drawn to Shamanic Healing, which works with the subtle and relational field alongside embodied trauma healing.