Touch your pain without getting stuck in overwhelm or terror

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Somatic Trauma Therapy

By coming into deeper relationship with yourself, I help you fulfill your longings for a lasting experience of belonging, connection, and self-trust.

So that pain can be less painful.

How is this possible?

Your brain can unlearn painful (untrue) things you learned from hard experiences (like, I’m all alone, I’m unworthy, I’m bad) - if you come closer to your pain with “I’m here with you” loving energy.

It’s okay if your pain scares you or you want to run away from it. Or if you think you’ll get overwhelmed and stuck in it. Or if compassion and connection with yourself feels impossible.

I shape the therapeutic space so that we meet you exactly where you are - so respectfully and kindly - that going closer to the pain begins to feel okay. I also won’t leave you alone in pain. I’ll ground us in the here and now. I’ll help you understand your pain and how your system protects you from pain, in a way that deepens self-trust and compassion.

We’ll grow your capacity to touch your pain without getting stuck in overwhelm or terror. When we do that, your pain can transform into true inner belonging. Then, your brain can finally take in new learnings and actually believe something else to be true about you or your life. This frees up space for peace and presence in your life and relationships.

There may be times where healing with ancestors may be a part of the journey. This happens when both you and your ancestors are open for communication and ready for co-healing.

Part of our work will be to support you in developing new skills and practices that support self-trust as you face your reality. I use brain change science to support building new habits and train your subconscious mind to activate specific positive energy and behaviors in you when you need them.

    • trauma - racial, sexual, physical, relational, intergenerational, ancestral, systemic

    • shock - single or chronic experiences of life or death situations, terror, horror, abandonment, aloneness, emptiness, invasion, rejection, humiliation

    • stuck states - anxiety, depression, dissociation, stress, panic, rage/anger, hypervigilance, irritability, shame, self-criticism, overwhelm, burnout, hopelessness

    • behavioral - emotional reactivity, addiction, perfectionism

    • relational challenges - codependency, conflicts, boundaries, attachment issues

    • life changes - relocation, children, divorce

    • grief and loss - death, personal, collective

    • identity exploration and challenges - sexuality, gender, race, culture, BDSM / Kink, consensual nonmonogamy / polyamory

    • lived experiences: chronic illness, disability, neurodivergence

  • Therapeutic support

    • Mapping out 1) your life hopes, 2) your blocks to reaching hopes 3) how to get closer to your hopes

    • Psychoeducation on how brains learn, change, and heal

    • Psychoeducation on complex and attachment trauma, including horror, terror, and shock experiences

    • Inner child healing

    • Ancestral healing

    • Grief work

    • Meditation and breathwork practices

    • Embodied self-compassion practices

    • Boundary work

    • Grounding + stress reducing exercises

    • Relational connection & communication skills

    • Training your brain to learn new positive habits

    • Understanding neurodivergent accommodation needs

    Spiritual support

    • Oracle card reading

    • Psychic connection with inner children, parts, ancestors

    • Energy healing

    • Energetic boundary activation

    • Removal of unwanted energies

    • Clearing of programming tied to suffering and limiting beliefs

    • Establishing connection with benevolent ancestors

    • Prayers for your dreams and hopes

    • Creating spiritual rituals and practices

    • Spiritual counseling

    • Drumming + vocal healing

  • I offer an integrative, experiential, decólonial, brain-based method of trauma therapy that includes parts work, somatics, and ancestral work.

    I’m certified in the STAIR Method and trained in Deep Brain Reorienting to support natural resilience, self-trust, and trauma recovery including attachment wounds, shock, and complex trauma.

  • Virtual sessions

    During the first two weeks of the month: We’ll meet for a 90 minute session for 2 consecutive weeks. Each 90 minute session is $600.

    I’ve found that working for 90 minutes for about 2-3 times a month is profoundly more effective than for 45 minutes weekly.

    So, I work in this structure that matches the standard monthly budget for therapy.

    During the next two weeks of the month: No fee.

    We’ll take time off from sessions. I invite you into a journey with yourself, encouraging you to practice embodied skills that emerged from our sessions to support you in honing new neural networks to target lasting change and deeper relationship with yourself.

    I offer this structure of therapy that supports self-trust, brain healing, and lasting change.

    I don’t take insurance but provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement for NY residents.

“I never knew grief work could be pleasurable” - Client

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I see clients for 90 mins to support deep emergence.

Here’s what clients are saying:

  • The journey of therapy with Bokie has been life-changing in ways I never thought possible.

    My connection and relationship with my innermost feelings and trauma are starting to heal and transform, thanks to our extended sessions.

    The spaciousness of longer sessions allows my system to not feel anxious about "getting through all the things."

    I can’t emphasize enough the difference this has made in helping me experience and recognize real "wins" for my innermost, wounded parts.

    I’m profoundly grateful for Bokie’s skill, dedication, and their collaborative, creative, compassionate, and grounded approach as a therapist.

  • I’m now a better therapist and friend. I take better care of myself. I feel like I came back to myself. 

    Through longer sessions, the amount of repair work I’ve done with myself hasn’t been achieved with any of the therapists I’ve worked with in the last 5 years.

    I don't know how I called myself an adult because I've never been emotionally regulated using any of the embodied skills I learned. 

    I was scared of doing longer sessions. I thought I’d be permanently sad forever. I’ve never been able to understand my deeper inner world. I’ve been afraid that it’ll swallow me whole.