You may be navigating stress, grief, burnout, or a feeling you can’t quite name. On the outside, life looks fine — but inside, something feels disconnected. Your body holds tension, your mind spins, and your emotions either feel too big or strangely muted.
why you might be here
When Life Feels Heavy, Foggy, or “Off”
Clouded mind
Heavy heart
Detached body
How ISTP™ helps
Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice can bring you relief and empowerment, offering a ray of hope in your healing journey. It's possible to feel better. Imagine a life where you could...
Feel joy again
Release worry
Finally, be free from years of constant anxiety and panic attacks
Stop letting anxiety affect the way you live
Release once and for all the protective physical tension and pain your body has been holding
Heal root causes
Feel at peace in your body
Take a Deep Breath, Release, Connect, And Focus On Healing
Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP) ™️ supports you in letting go of the holding patterns of protection that you've been carrying, releasing you to connect authentically with your true nature
Hearing the stories your body has been trying to tell you will give you the profound insight you need to finally find answers, get the relief you need, and learn what is holding you back from your healing by creating space to attune to the wisdom of your body's knowing.
This will free you from all the painful past experiences that keep showing up over and over again, keeping you stuck, anxious, and frozen.
Even if you are unsure if ISTP™️ can help because you've tried other therapies that have not worked, Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™️ may be able to help.
Being in doubt is expected, a part of life. Having hope allows you to continue. What kept you going when life got hard? Hope. What will allow you to continue trusting that there is more? Hope.
Many clients have shared with me how deeply impactful their experience of ISTP™️ has been in their healing process.
You can feel more deeply connected to your body and breath, allowing you to feel and release what has been stubbornly holding on.
Unprocessed complex trauma can manifest in a range of disruptive symptoms: physically, emotionally, behaviorally, cognitively and spiritually.
Why i chose this work
A Practice Grounded in Lived Experience
After years of witnessing how stress, trauma, and emotional overwhelm settle deep in the body, I knew talk therapy alone wasn’t enough. ISTP™ offered a way to help people heal with the mind and the body — creating space for clarity, release, and self-compassion. This work feels like coming home to yourself.
What Makes ISTP™ different
Breath & Mindfulness
Somatic Bodywork
Sound & Ceremony
Neuroscience-Informed Integration
ISTP™ works on multiple levels at once — emotional, physical, mental, and energetic — allowing deeper healing and long-lasting change.
Created by my teacher and mentor, Ratha Chek, RCC, Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP™️) is emerging as the industry standard for somatically based therapies. ISTP™️ is underpinned by practice-based approaches that are highly effective in trauma and PTSD recovery and the everyday issues that can make life difficult.
ISTP™️ is a therapeutic approach that has forever changed how I support my clients.
What I love about ISTP™️ is that it's not just for trauma therapy; it's a versatile framework that enhances my practice, allowing clients to connect with their bodies and emotional experiences in profound new ways.
It's a way of being in alignment.
I'm confident it can do the same for you.
"In each of us lies a sacred space, a profound reservoir of wisdom that holds the perfect formula to heal our pains and traumas."
Rhonda Pickles
What is ISTP™?
ISTP™ is a Trauma Informed, Transformative Body Oriented Psychotherapeutic Approach to Mental Health and Therapy. I've integrated ISTP™ in my clinical work with individuals and couples.
Unlike other modalities, ISTP™ blends the wisdom of yoga, the power of breathwork, the healing touch of bodywork, the focus of mindfulness, the freedom of movement, the resonance of sound healing and music, the strength of resilience enhancement, the depth of body-oriented processing/integration, the reverence of ceremony, and the evidence-based insights of neuroscience and talk therapy for deep and lasting processing.
Through this humanistic relational psychotherapeutic approach, you will be gently guided to release traumas and painful past experiences stored in the body.
This process, offered in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment in my studio, will help you restore your body to its natural state.
You will be empowered to explore and authentically express your needs freely when fear arises, creating spaciousness within that will allow you to live more openly in the truth of who you are.
As a result, you will naturally become more present for yourself and others in your life.
Did you know that ISTP™ sessions can be conducted virtually? All you need is a quiet space free of distractions, and voila! You can have an ISTP™ session in the comfort of your own home, regardless of your location.
When we work together, you’ll be welcomed into a calming space where we begin with simple connection—often over tea—as we talk about what’s on your mind and what you’re longing to feel. From there, I’ll gently get to know your emotional, mental, and physical landscape so we can understand what’s been holding you back. Together, we’ll craft a therapeutic path that feels aligned, flexible, and truly supportive, using intuitive ISTP™ techniques to help you reconnect with your body and release long-held patterns. Throughout our work, I’ll adjust our approach as needed and share tools you can continue using long after our sessions. If you feel ready to begin this healing journey, I’d love to connect with you for our first conversation.
what does a session look like?
Highly adaptable and flexible, they range in length from 90 minutes to 2 hours or more. They are one-on-one sessions that help you resolve your concerns. Sessions of 3 hours or more are available upon request.
