Kristen Waters (they/them)

kristen@healingartscollaborative.com

License & Training:
SEP (Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner)

Snapshot:
As a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I offer somatics from an embodied personal practice. As a body-oriented modality, I hold space for you to curiously explore a connection to how your body speaks it’s mind. I offer support for your nervous system in the renegotiation of trauma. Cultivating a trust in your mind-body connection can lead to more choice in stressful moments when you find yourself under pressure, and I look forward to joining you in this exploration. Group sessions can look like practices toward grounding and settling, building regulation skills, mobilization for stuck parts of trauma, boundary work, movement exercises and supportive touch.

Identities & values that are important to me:

  • Queer and Nonbinary

  • Interactions based on mutual dignity and social solidarity

  • Rooted in an anti-oppression framework

  • Abolitionist committed to transformative justice

Healing Modalities:

Therapy specialties:

  • Stabilization of the nervous system

  • Renegotiation of trauma

  • Boundary work

  • Embodiment practices and regulation skills

  • Inviting awareness to the ways the body speaks

I work with ages:
18+

Therapy availability?
Group somatic practice sessions only. See our instagram for announcements about upcoming groups.

Supervision availability?
No

About Somatic Experiencing® International
(https://traumahealing.org)
Somatic Experiencing® (SETM) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. Trauma, from an SE lens, is focused on how it shows up in the nervous system and how that dysregulation impacts life. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient. It is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders from a nervous system lens within a practitioner’s scope of practice. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.