1:1 Somatic Sessions

for post traumatic growth & creative awakening

Welcome! I’m Kelsey Maeve, somatic trauma resolution practitioner, embodiment facilitator & creative coach.

If you are looking for a compassionate guide on your journey towards somatic trauma resolution, embodiment, and unlocking your creative potential, you've come to the right place.

I'm here to offer you a safe and nurturing space where we can work together one-on-one to help you heal, reconnect with your body, and tap into your innate creativity.

Whether you're seeking to release past traumas, find greater presence in your body, or ignite your creative spark, I'm dedicated to supporting you every step of the way.

Together, we'll embark on a transformative path towards a more empowered and vibrant you.

“These sessions helped me create energetic coherence in my body, and a solid foundation in my life.”

- 1:1 client

Possible areas of focus

These are topics I tend to work with clients on in our sessions. Areas of focus are not limited to these, but hopefully these can help you get an idea of what to expect & what is within my scope of practice.

 

Relational Healing

  • Transform toxic relational patterns

  • Heal from narcissistic abuse or manipulation & gaslighting

  • Embody healthier boundaries

  • Unlearn codependant patterns

  • Resolve past interpersonal violations (sexual, emotional or energetic)

  • Expand you ability to give and receive safe enough nurturance, love & care

Creative Self Expression

  • Transform shame into shameless self expression

  • Cultivate the courage to share your hearts true medicine

  • Learn to distinguish your intuition from the voice of trauma, fear or anxiety

  • Resolve shame or dimming around the full expression of your sexual or gender identity

  • Express more of your queerness, weirdness or artistry in do-able ways

Identity Alchemy

  • Perhaps you are crossing a major threshold in your life - personally or professionally - and want guidance & witness as you grow into a new version of you

  • Get support in letting go of your old shape & growing more fully & radically into your new one

  • Develop practices & ways of being that honor your old ways & where you are heading now

 

Nervous system regulation

  • Transform lifelong patterns of trauma & dysregulation

  • Expand your capacity for embodied presence

  • Grow your capacity to show up for what matters most to you

  • Learn how to regulate your nervous systems in times of stress & trauma

  • Know your needs & limits

Emotional Resilience

  • Find relief from emotional pain

  • Learn how to actually FEEL & process your emotions (instead of bottling them up or letting them run you)

  • Grow your capacity to receive more pleasure in do-able ways

  • Distinguish between “dissociated joy” and what actual joy & safety feel like in your body

  • Cultivate your capacity to bounce back from big emotional waves

  • Get off the emotional roller coaster & discover stability

Career Support

  • Clarify where you are feeling stuck in business or career

  • Work on a nervous system level to clear blocks around money, power or purpose

  • Get support to take the next do-able step towards your dreams

  • Take the steps you need to feel safe enough to grow at a pace that works for you

 

Medical trauma

  • Recover from surgery, car accidents, or other injuries

  • Receive in-depth support in preparing for and recovering from surgery, chemotherapy or other major medical interventions

  • Get support with chronic pain & illness or ongoing medical interventions

  • Anxiety related to medical diagnosis or fear around recurrance

Grief & Love

  • Learn to love yourself more fully for all of who you are

  • Grieve what and who has been lost, and all the times your needs were not met

  • Get support to be with the pain of longing, loss and betrayal

  • Grow deeper self trust & self love

  • Heal a broken heart & learn to love again

  • Embrace change & get physical & soul-level support for the season you are in right now

Soul-Connection

  • Use creative & depth methods to contact your soul through art or visualization

  • Identify which archetypes you are currently embodying

  • Discover where you are on your own “hero(ine’s) journey

  • Embody your wild creative & feed your soul

  • Work with your ancestors to help see the bigger picture

“Through our 1-1 sessions, I learned to honor the true needs of my body and soul. I learned to expand into feeling my capacity, freedom, heart, and clarity in an embodied way.”

- 1:1 client

How do I know if somatic sessions are right for me?

If you can relate to several of the statements below, somatic sessions could be a great fit for you!

  • I am committed to personal growth and am ready to experience significant healing

  • I am excited about an approach that is somatic (aka body-based) and grounded in evidence based practices of Somatic Experiencing & Trauma Sensitive Yoga

  • I want to be held in a container that is both grounded in clinical trauma healing modalities and can hold the more spiritual & creative sides of me too

  • I am seeking an ongoing therapeutic container to hold me through a major loss, transition or growth phase

  • I am successful in many areas of life, but subconscious emotional patterns continue to hold me back from the levels of fulfillment that I know are possible in my work, health and relationships

  • I am ready to alchemize outgrown parts of my identity and to embody a new way of being

  • I yearn for attuned, somatic guidance from someone who has been in the field of somatics for over a decade

If you are curious about whether somatic coaching could be a good fit for you, book a 30-minute consultation call to speak with Kelsey and feel it out.

“Before working with Kelsey, I experienced anxiety and freeze states linked to emotional trauma. Now, I have less anxiety and feel more empowered in my embodied safety and inner guidance.”

- 1:1 client

 

What’s included in 1:1 Somatic Sessions?

A map, ongoing support & checkpoints along the way.

  • An in-depth Intake Session to get clear on what brought you here, the moment you are currently in & where you are headed on your healing journey

  • A unique written “healing blueprint” document made just for you, following our intake that outlines your developmental objectives for our work together

  • A blueprint offer session where you receive your healing blueprint document & we go over it together, so that we can be on the same page about why you are doing this work

  • Then we meet for weekly or bi-weekly 1:1 coaching sessions (I request a minimum of 6-months commitment for 1:1 clients & often this kind of work is ongoing and can last years if it’s a good fit)

  • Personally designed practices & follow up emails between each session

  • Quarterly check-ins every 3 months, we will check in with your “healing blueprint” document and review your progress with your developmental objectives. This is an opportunity to celebrate your wins & make any changes based on what’s most relevant now.

“The sessions with Kelsey felt so good for my soul and nervous system. I can’t recommend her enough.”

- 1:1 client

 The Process

✨Ongoing somatic, therapeutic, transformational support✨

Trauma heals best when it is met with consistency and care in a field of presence where trust has time to grow. I tend to work with people for 6 months at minimum. Many choose to extend for longer, and some continue the sessions over the course of many years, however 6 months is a wonderful time frame to begin with and to see some real transformative change.

Here is the flow of events that you can expect when you sign up for somatic coaching.

 

01

Feeler Call :

I care deeply that you get the best-fit care for where you are in your life, right now. I also care deeply that the people who sign up for this program are right-fit clients for me. That’s why we start with a low-pressure 30-minute feeler call. You’ll be invited to share what interests you about somatic coaching and to ask all the questions you have.

02

Enrollment :

If it feels like a good match for both of us, I will send you a contract to review. You can decide on your monthly payment plan based on the number of sessions you want per month, and enroll in a plan that works for you. Once the logistics are complete, you can begin scheduling your sessions. Everything is automated for ease & convenience.

 

03

Intake Session :

This process is the foundation upon which your unique journey will be held in this powerful container. Prior to the call you will be invited to answer questions about your your current hopes, dreams and goals as well as roadblocks, traumas and challenges. Our intake session will be an opportunity for you to share your story (as much as you’d like) and what’s most important in your life right now. This will help us identify your nervous system patterns & what needs to shift.

04

Blueprint Session:

During the Program Blueprint session, we will co-create your unique program blueprint - a document that will serve as a magical map to guide our work together. The program will outline the specific developmental muscles that would be in service to you shifting and growing into a new way of being–a way that can experience resilience and greater capacity in the face of challenge and difficulty. We revisit the Blueprint as a north star or guiding light throughout your program to celebrate your progress, wins and milestones.

 

05

Ongoing Sessions :

We will continue to meet for 75-minute sessions in which we will work in a titrated, do-able way to cultivate embodied connections, habits and practices that support you to fundamentally shift your physiology away from emergency and towards increased resource and ease. These sessions may include embodied movement practice, creative explorations and somatic trauma resolution. You can choose to meet weekly or biweekly. Each session is collaborative, consensual and unique to you!

06

Celebration Session :

At some point, you may feel like your work is complete. By the end of working together, folks typically reach outcomes that felt impossible at the beginning . Dedicated practice, paired with accountability and attuned 1-1 connection predictably create miracles. On our final call, we will review your developmental objectives from your Blueprint document, celebrate your wins and co-create a beautiful closing ritual to complete the container. It’s time for you to rejoice in your new way of being! For long term clients, we check-in every 6 months or so to re-evaluate & upgrade your program objectives.

If you are looking for a somatic, trauma-informed practitioner to help you transform long-held patterns of stress and trauma so that you can experience more peace, capacity & possibility, you are in the right place.

 

Lineages of Practice

I am so grateful for my teachers & the wisdom traditions that have shaped me as a somatic practitioner. The main methodologies that inform my coaching work with clients are Somatic Experiencing + ReBloom Coaching, however, I am shaped by everything I have studied & practice, and would like to honor & acknowledge my teachers & lineages that animate my work.

Professional Certifications:

  • Certified ReBloom Coach (2020) - I completed the 14-month training in the ReBloom Method for Personal & Collective Post Traumatic Growth with Racheal Maddox twice, and became a member of the ReBloom “hive” aka teaching team where I served as a guest teacher & supervisor in the advanced training program for coaches.

  • Somatic Experiencing Student (2019) - I have been a client of Somatic Experiencing for over 30 years (!!!) and this body based trauma healing method, developed by Peter Levine, has become a deeply engrained part of who I am. I have completed the 3-years of training at the Advanced level & am completing my certification homework currently.

  • Graduate studies in Depth Psychology (2016) - I completed one year of graduate studies in Depth Psychology (a branch of psychology developed by Carl Jung) at Sonoma State University where I received education on dreamwork, archetypes, movement, art & other creative approaches to psychology, sand tray, MBTI, and mythology.

  • Certified Expressive Arts Facilitator (2014) - After painting with my godmother Chris Zydel for many years in her expressive arts studio, I completed the yearlong training to become a facilitator in this art therapy method, centered around the process of intuitive painting. It’s so fun!

  • Certified Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (2014) - I was part of the second cohort to study TCTSY- an evidence based modality - with Dave Emerson & Jenn Turner at Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center, becoming the first TCTSY instructor in California in 2014. TCTSY is now being offered through the Center for Trauma & Embodiment.

  • RYT-200 (Registered Yoga Teacher) (2009) - I started studying yoga in 2009 and have trained in many styles with many teachers including Peggy Berg, Shy Sayar, Kiki Lovelace, Britt Fohrman & Ana Forrest. In 2018, I decided to stop teaching yoga as an extractive practice & to focus on coaching instead.

  • Certified Birth Doula (2009) - In 2009, I became a birth doula through Natural Resources in San Francisco, and attended about 10 births until I realized being on-call is not for me. I got deep into the birth world teaching prenatal yoga & apprenticing with Britt Fohrman. I still draw upon this foundational skillset in my somatic work.

Additional education & un-learning:

  • Liberation Spring Grassroots De-colonial School with Anjali Nath - 2017-2018

  • Foundations in Somatic abolitionism with Resmaa Menekem, Dec 2021

  • Embodied Ancestral Inquiry with Marika Heinrichs, May - July 2022

  • Reparative Communal Consultations for white bodies- with Carlin Quinn, 2022

  • Post Capitalist Futures with Education for Racial Equality, Sept - Dec 2022

  • Traditional Irish Sean-nós singing with Mary McLaughlin 2017-present

“I've learned how to sit with challenging emotions, notice where they show up in my body, and release the anxious energy through moving my body. I know that these are skills I will carry with me for the rest of my life.”

- 1:1 client

 

The details:

  • Somatic coaching is an ongoing relationship, with the minimum length of work being six months but usually extending longer. I meet with clients twice a month, (usually every other week) as a baseline, with the option to meet more frequently if you desire. I do find that meeting weekly is helpful to grow momentum, especially in the beginning.

  • Sessions are 75 minutes long and happen over zoom, 2-4x/month. In addition to the sessions, I offer individualized practices & follow up emails after each session.

  • Somatic trauma resolution is a deeply therapeutic modality, however it is not a replacement for psychotherapy or clinical care. Somatic trauma resolution can be an excellent complimentary support to clinical care if you are managing complex needs of CPTSD. In our intake call, we will clarify what supplemental support may be appropriate for your needs.

Next steps in working together:

The first step in working together is to set up a free half an hour consultation call. This call is an opportunity for us to get to know each other, for me to hear what you’re looking for support with, for you to ask questions and for both of us feel into if we are a good fit to work together.

 

“Now I choose what regenerates me and I mobilize energy where it needs to be with truth aligned actions and self-trust. I spend less time in freeze states, and I move in the direction of what feels really aligned for me, and with more self-validation.”

- 1:1 client

What Clients are Saying…

“Being new to somatic healing, Kelsey’s gentle strength really made me feel safe to open up and to unpack my fears, worries, and anxiety and find clarity.”

“Kelsey is very attuned and brings compassionate presence, inquiry and guidance, with her heart, soul, poetry and humour. I felt really seen, cared for & supported in this grounding and inspiring container.”

“I loved all the beautiful body-based, creative and symbolic approaches Kelsey used. I loved the way she brought in education about the nervous system which helped me understand the process on an even deeper level.”

“As a master coach myself, I’m VERY picky on who I work with, and highly recommend Kelsey! I left our sessions feeling inspired, grounded, and soooooo good in my body.

I came to Kelsey at a trying time in my life, after experiencing much loss and unexpected family crises. As a busy mom, with a busy coaching business, there was so much on my plate and I wanted more support in holding everything.  

My sessions with Kelsey helped me SLOW down, drop into the wisdom of my body, and give my nervous system exactly what it was craving. 

Her warm and caring presence made me feel very held and I knew her capable hands could handle whatever I was bringing to the session. 

If you’re looking to feel more centered, grounded, and expand your resilience in times of stress, reach out to Kelsey.”

- Amanda Testa

 
 

"I am more aware of how things effect me at the body level which helps me set aligned boundaries.

This coaching has forever changed my life. Kelsey has an ability to meet me where I am at and know which way to guide me. She knows when we have done enough and when we can push a little further. She is very attuned to me and my body and does an excellent job at knowing what is just right for me in each session.

I was struggling with fully letting go of the emotional trauma I had experienced 10 years ago & hoping to find closure and release. Nothing had actually helped me complete the trauma this person had caused. Coaching helped me uncover realizations about myself that never would have come up if I wasn't doing this work. I felt neutral and very at peace when engaging with what used to be a trigger and that was an amazing feeling.

I would recommend this 1:1 coaching program to everyone and anyone. This program will change your life for the better in ways you could have never expected.”

-Taylor Cope

 

"I have learned how to tap into the wisdom of my body in such a deep and profound way.

Kelsey has taught me and supported me in deepening my capacity to regulate my nervous system by attuning to the sensations in my body and working with these to tap into my intuition, explore challenges, resolve old emotional wounds, and heal my nervous system.

In my sessions with Kelsey I am met with a supportive, empathetic, and non-judgmental guide. I feel seen by Kelsey in my most natural essence which creates a beautiful container of safety from which to somatically explore what it is that needs tending to.

Through working with Kelsey, I now have body-based strategies that feel very intuitive and accessible to draw upon, especially when I feel emotionally triggered, so that I can bring my nervous system back to regulation.

As a coach myself, I am so grateful to have Kelsey’s support. Kelsey is a highly skilled and knowledgeable somatic coach who comes with my highest recommendation!”

-Adrienne Partridge, Ph.D.

Trauma is not a life sentence. You get to grow, heal & evolve. If you want more ongoing support on your healing path, long term coaching might be a great fit.