What are Mini Sessions?

Mini Sessions are potent 3 to 4 hour somatic therapy sessions guided by a highly trained somatic trauma expert. Together, our Raleigh and Durham counselors will collaborate to create a personalized plan that reflects your unique intentions and desired outcomes. These sessions are designed to allow for deeper exploration of therapeutic themes without the constraint of the traditional 55-minute time limit. Feeling stressed and need to renew your toolbox? Working with another provider and want to deepen your understanding of your body and what it is holding? Experiencing chronic sleep issues, anxiety, rumination, feelings of depression or lack of motivation? Have an upcoming transition or life event you’d like to be better prepared for? Experiencing relationship conflict? Want to explore self-esteem and confidence? One mini sessions is the time equivalent to 1 month of weekly therapy sessions, making Minis attractive alternatives for people who find traditional therapy models time-limiting. Mini sessions often include multiple modalities including but not limited to: somatic awareness/movement, hypnotherapy, IFS-informed parts work, EMDR/bilateral stimulation, use of creativity through drawing, neurogenic tremoring, movement and painting, sound bowl, postural repatterning/nervous system care and repair, breathwork and more.

Mini sessions can be one-time experiences scheduled and designed around a specific theme (similar to trauma intensives) or you can become a regular client with mini sessions implemented consistently and guided by a long-term treatment plan (such as once per month or once per quarter).

If you are interested in a mini session, please fill out the website submission form below. You and your therapist will then have a 30 minute Connection Call to better understand your desired feelings and individual intentions and create a treatment plan including frequency and duration of sessions.

Mini Sessions may include:

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
Internal family systems-informed therapy/Parts work/Parts Mapping
TRE (Tension/Trauma Release Exercise)
Hypnotherapy
Somatic therapy processing
Weigh-sharing/Embodied Movement/Yoga therapy
Sound Therapy (Safe and Sound Protocol and Sound Bowl Healing)
Nervous system attunement and repair (applied polyvagal techniques to promote regulation in the autonomic nervous system and postural repatterning movement instruction for parasympathetic activation)
Use of expressive arts or art in session such as acting out a scene, drawing or painting
Guided visualization/meditation
Ecotherapy (time spent outdoors)
Physical touch with written and verbal consent

During mini sessions I provide a warm, collaborative and creative environment for you to experience a deeper access to your subtle body and connect with the natural wisdom of you nervous system to meet your goals for emotional and mental well-being. We will amplify your connection to positive experiences internally and externally while desensitizing you to any previous or current distressing life experiences. We will re-create conditions for repair of old or burdened emotional patterns that have been stored in the body and are no longer working for you. As a somatic therapist, sound healer, yoga teacher and somatic movement trauma provider, I utilize a body-centric approach rooted in movement, touch, connection, applied polyvagal theory (in other words, the science of feeling connected and awake to ourselves and the world), parts work (IFS-informed) and EMDR.
Whether you are doing a singe mini session or want to become a regular client and do once per month mini sessions, we will set an agenda guided by a specific and personalized treatment plan together so that expectations are clear for our work. At the end of our sessions, we will make a plan for how you will navigate the rest of the month and equip you with knowledge and skills that will facilitate ongoing processing between sessions. I also offer ecotherapy sessions on the american tobacco trail in replace of the mini session to walk (i.e. recreate bilateral stimulation) and process instead of being in the office.