Somatic sessions are gentle and collaborative, supporting kids and teens through building skills for regulation. Increasing awareness of emotions and physical sensations that show up in the body.

Sessions often include body-based awareness, movement, play and some talking to help your child identify what is happening inside their body when they feel stressed and overwhelmed. As a somatic practitioner, Katie serves as a calm and supportive presence. She will assist your child to learn tools for managing big emotions, recover from stress and overwhelm more easily, build emotional awareness, resilience and confidence. Every session is approached in a collaborative, gentle and nurturing manner.

Katie does not provide psychotherapy. Somatic sessions can be used on its own as a body-based healing and wellness modality or in conjunction with talk therapy.

Katie graduated as a somatic practitioner in 2025. She obtains a somatic and yoga certification working with kids and teens. In addition, she holds an integrative somatic trauma therapy certification. Katie has her bachelors in Social Work from Western Michigan University. She has worked as a mental health clinician for a community health outpatient service. This includes psychiatric evaluations, psychotherapy and psychiatry. Until recently, she has been full-time at home raising her three children. She has spent the last several years training as a somatic practitioner and deepening her practice working with mothers, kids and teens.