Hi, I’m Alison (she/her) and I work remotely with queer and neurodiverse people who want to expand their capacity to regulate, understand, and act on their emotions. I am an AuDHD Trans woman and feel that we have unique ways of experiencing the world that benefit from an understanding practitioner.
This world is not always kind to us. Here you will find a safe environment that puts you in charge. All your emotions are valid and welcome. Anger is a map. Grief walks hand in hand with love. Anxiety keeps us safe in a dangerous world. My goal is not to remove or minimize these feelings, but to help you choose how to meet them.
“I can be embodied enough thanks to the somatic stuff that you helped me with that I can turn inward, even in this chaos when my brain is like, ‘do all the things at once! Do them right or don’t do them at all, ’cause if you fail you suck!’
Challenging these things is difficult. I’m not okay but at least I’m embodied enough that I can say, okay, this sucks, and, it’s temporary, and, you have channels in place that you can fix this. Just bear with it. You’re gonna be okay.”
– Lily J, Illinois
“We had a call tonight and I was able to learn where in my body it’s safe to be and then was able to access some really big grief that I have been casually shoving down for nearly 13 years and sit with it for a bit.
And that’s as someone whose body has always been a thing I have and not a part of me.”
– Mason A, Missouri
Come join me for a quick meetup to try this out or ask me anything:
Check out the free Somatic Sundays group, a low-pressure, fun way to explore this work:
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Book a regular session as frequently or infrequently as you like. The most common is weekly:
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sessions are non-refundable
Email: admin@bodycenteredemotions.com
Phone/WhatsApp/Signal: +1 641 919 5577
I use a multimodal approach with influences including Focusing, Hakomi, Intrinsic Somatic Movement, Somatic Experiencing, and traditional meditation practices. My teachers include Michael Sternfeld for Body Presence Facilitator Training and Intrinsic Somatic Movement and Tristan Bray for Attunement Therapy. I run a free group sharing circle, write about somatic work and queer neurodiverse activism on Substack and the Somatic Tea Party site, and am writing an interactive musical on embodied connection and belonging. For all my projects in one place, see my LinkTree.