How I Can Help You:

  • Understanding Your Journey:

    Childhood experiences shape who we become. While our caregivers did their best with available resources, the environments we grew up in sometimes fell short of meeting our essential needs. To survive and cope, we developed adaptive strategies—but these same strategies that once protected us may now limit our growth and potential as adults.

    Common adaptations include:

    • Questioning our sense of belonging or self-worth

    • Struggling with self-trust and forming connections with others

    • Developing perfectionist tendencies

    • Turning to work or substances as coping mechanisms

    • Prioritizing others' needs while suppressing our own voice

    • Experiencing internal pressure and ambivalence about life choices

    The NARM Approach:

    The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) offers a path to understanding and transforming these patterns. In our sessions, we create a safe space to explore what stands between you and your authentic desires. We begin with a fundamental question:

    “What do you truly want for yourself?”

    Through trauma-informed, relational dialogue, we work together to identify and address the barriers that prevent you from living fully. Our collaborative approach helps you reconnect with your inner wisdom while developing new ways of relating to yourself and others.

  • Gentle Healing for Body and Mind:

    Craniosacral therapy is a subtle yet powerful approach to healing that works with your body's innate wisdom. Through gentle touch and focused attention, this therapeutic method supports your nervous system's natural ability to release stress, tension, and stored trauma—particularly experiences from our earliest years of life.

    Healing Early Life Experiences:

    Our earliest experiences—from pre-birth through early childhood—profoundly shape our nervous system and patterns of being. During these formative times, before we had language to process or express our experiences, our bodies recorded everything. Craniosacral therapy excels at addressing these preverbal experiences because it works directly with the body's wisdom, bypassing the need for verbal processing.

    The Power of Biodynamic Touch:

    Through biodynamic craniosacral therapy, we create a safe container for your earliest imprints to emerge and transform naturally. This approach is uniquely suited for:

    • Processing pre-verbal and early childhood experiences

    • Healing birth trauma and prenatal stress

    • Resolving deeply held patterns from infancy

    • Addressing attachment-related challenges

    • Supporting nervous system regulation at the most fundamental level

    Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy:

    This gentle approach offers comprehensive healing through:

    • Deep release of stored trauma and stress

    • Enhanced nervous system regulation

    • Improved sleep and relaxation

    • Relief from physical tension and discomfort

    • Support for emotional well-being

    • Resolution of early developmental patterns

    Your Healing Journey:

    Each session is tailored to your unique needs, allowing your system to guide the healing process at its own pace. As your practitioner, I provide a supportive presence while your body accesses its natural healing capabilities. The wisdom of your body knows exactly how to unwind these early patterns when given the right support.

    A Different Approach to Healing:

    Unlike traditional talk therapy, craniosacral therapy doesn't require you to remember, verbalize, or relive early experiences. Your body holds the key to healing, and through gentle, non-invasive touch, we create the conditions for natural resolution to occur.

    Begin Your Journey:

    Take the first step toward healing these foundational patterns. Contact us to learn about therapy packages and find the right approach for your needs.

    Contact:somaticheartfulness@pm.me

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Who I work with:

I work with helping professionals leading humanity towards wholeness and interbeing within the animate natural world.

Philosophy & Approach

My work is grounded in the understanding that healing happens through relationship—with ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human world. I believe in creating spaces where authentic connection can flourish and where the wisdom of the body can guide us toward wholeness.

Drawing from both ancient wisdom traditions and contemporary somatic practices, I support individuals and groups in accessing their innate capacity for healing and growth. My approach emphasizes:

  • Trauma-informed care that honors each person's unique journey

  • Body-based practices that cultivate presence and embodied awareness

  • Relational work that fosters genuine connection and community

  • Integration of ecological awareness and natural law principles

Vision

I am committed to co-creating a world of connected community celebration through teamwork, healing, and conscious evolution. My work supports the emergence of bioregional, life-affirming cultures rooted in deep relationship with place and each other.

Through individual sessions, group facilitation, and community building, I aim to contribute to the healing of our collective trauma and the cultivation of more resilient, heart-centered ways of being.

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‘What does it mean to be trauma-informed’

“We do not have to be ashamed of what we are.” - Chögyam Trungpa

  • What is NARM?

“The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection and health. No matter how withdrawn and isolating we have become, or how serious the trauma we have experienced, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves towards the sun, there is in each of us an impulse moving toward connection. This organismic impulse is the fuel of The NeuroAffective Relational Model™.”

What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy?

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, non-invasive approach that works directly with your body's innate wisdom. During sessions, you remain fully clothed on a massage table while the practitioner uses light, still touch to support your nervous system's natural healing capacity. This subtle yet powerful method is particularly effective for addressing preverbal trauma, early life experiences, and deeply held patterns that exist beyond the reach of traditional talk therapy.

As trained practitioners, we understand the intricate workings of a healthy nervous system and use refined perception skills to detect subtle physiological changes. We recognize that health is always present, regardless of current symptoms, and work with your body's inherent healing intelligence to restore balance. Through this process, your system naturally releases stored tension, processes early trauma, and returns to a state of deep regulation—supporting improved sleep, reduced anxiety, enhanced emotional well-being, and an overall sense of ease in daily life.

"I am a licensed clinician with a private practice that works with over 100 clients a month. Patrick is a clinician and a man that I trust. His integrity, intuition and open heart is on full display when working with him… a high caliber therapeutic experience that goes well beyond traditional psychotherapy." Tom Jameson MS, LMHC ~ “Patrick is a brilliant facilitator with deep insight into effecting transformative change in those he serves. I find Patrick’s vision of working with not only boys and men, but allies of boys and men, a life-model and an inspiration.” -Leah Blackburn DSc, MSc Sr. Healthcare Consultant, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland ~ "The primary quality that comes through from Patrick is a very calming presence, coupled with great listening and questions, allowing me to dip toes into past issues and persistent feelings, and then come back to a very supportive "now." These sessions all happen on Zoom, and I am amazed by how connected I felt..." Steven W. ~ “As someone who works in this field as well, it has been a challenge at times to find someone who I feel has the missing puzzle piece that I don’t have. Which is why I’m reaching out for help in the first place, I’m searching for a tool I don’t currently have access to. Patrick’s biggest gift is his solid unwavering presence. I feel safe to unravel and reweave with him. To unpack the crazy, the brilliant, the tender and the messy pieces. He knows when to just let me feel, and when to ask the right questions that bring all the puzzle pieces together. His work, for me, is nothing short of the most humble genius. I would highly recommend Patrick to anyone seeking a safe space to explore, integrate and rest in your own soul’s perfection.” -Leah Dietzen

"I am a licensed clinician with a private practice that works with over 100 clients a month. Patrick is a clinician and a man that I trust. His integrity, intuition and open heart is on full display when working with him… a high caliber therapeutic experience that goes well beyond traditional psychotherapy." Tom Jameson MS, LMHC ~ “Patrick is a brilliant facilitator with deep insight into effecting transformative change in those he serves. I find Patrick’s vision of working with not only boys and men, but allies of boys and men, a life-model and an inspiration.” -Leah Blackburn DSc, MSc Sr. Healthcare Consultant, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland ~ "The primary quality that comes through from Patrick is a very calming presence, coupled with great listening and questions, allowing me to dip toes into past issues and persistent feelings, and then come back to a very supportive "now." These sessions all happen on Zoom, and I am amazed by how connected I felt..." Steven W. ~ “As someone who works in this field as well, it has been a challenge at times to find someone who I feel has the missing puzzle piece that I don’t have. Which is why I’m reaching out for help in the first place, I’m searching for a tool I don’t currently have access to. Patrick’s biggest gift is his solid unwavering presence. I feel safe to unravel and reweave with him. To unpack the crazy, the brilliant, the tender and the messy pieces. He knows when to just let me feel, and when to ask the right questions that bring all the puzzle pieces together. His work, for me, is nothing short of the most humble genius. I would highly recommend Patrick to anyone seeking a safe space to explore, integrate and rest in your own soul’s perfection.” -Leah Dietzen