Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral therapy is a new term for one of the most ancient healing practices of our species. Many cultures practice something similar to this gentle, hands-on healing modality. Craniosacral comes from the traditions of the Shawnee & Cherokee peoples, assimilated & appropriated into Osteopathic Medicine. I studied through Body Intelligence under the teachers Clara Cunningham, Hiraman Reynolds & Ryan Hallford.

This work is hands-on, gentle touch work provided in a private and peaceful healing space. We work one-on-one, and before session, clients share their goals and perhaps their aches, pains and traumas. During session, the body speaks in a variety of ways, opening up into what we call the body’s own ‘Inherent Treatment Plan'.’ This work can tap into all the different layers of our physiology—our tissues, our fluids, our cellular matrix—to unwind and open up to our state of original health.

We all know that bodies are the ones who heal themselves, our immune system can be spurred into action, our body can be fueled by food, medicine, etc that allow it to do its inherent and innate job even better. Craniosacral taps into that phenomenon as well as the one that shows healing happens in attuned, safe containers with other regulated nervous systems.

This is a powerful tool for individuals who may be too sensitive or uncomfortable with other forms of touch therapy. This work can be deeply beneficial for most physiological and nervous system ailments although can be particularly powerful for acute physiological trauma like TBI & post-surgery.

Organic Intelligence

Somatic Therapy

Organic Intelligence is a modality of Somatic Psychology that centers nervous system regulation. This somatic therapy model is about working with trauma: experiences that have not been integrated by the whole bodily system and cause dysregulation and dysfunction.

I work directly with clients to help their system heal. States of dysregulation that can be supported and healed with somatic therapy include depression, anxiety, ptsd, chronic pain and fatigue, autoimmune dysfunction, and beyond.

This paradigm centers a biological understanding of how we hold and show our stories, our traumas and how to move forward with healing. This approach centers the bodies innate healing capacity as the guide, while I offer practices and interventions for helping our nervous systems shift old pathways into new more resourceful ones. This is a non-pathologizing, and I believe radical approach to mental health healing and nervous system regulation.

This work begs us to ask ‘what if nothing is wrong with you? what if your body is reacting and responding brilliantly to all the stimuli, trauma and impact it has been subject to since conception? what if your trauma is in fact your greatest un-metabolized resource for healing?’ Finding ways to get free from the burden of unintegrated trauma, shame & dysregulation is the work we do together.

Clients are welcome to bring any content and we work right where you are. We may center and reflect on body sensations, images, orientation to the environment and felt sense as we work.

OI sessions in many ways look like traditional trauma talk therapy sessions, we meet for 50 minute sessions via Zoom or in person at my office near Downtown Tucson.

  • I am certified as an Organic Intelligence Coach and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner. I am not a clinically licensed therapist. Although sessions with me are therapeutic, they are oriented around nervous system regulation support and I do not work directly with mental health pathology nor do I diagnose or prescribe medications.

  • Unfortunately I am not licensed to take insurance although I do offer sliding scale sessions.

  • My full session fee is $135. I offer sliding scale for those who need it that starts at $80.