Hi, I’m Brooke.

Somatic Practitioner. SE Student. Recovering achiever.

For most of my life, I was exceptional at overriding my body.

I showed up. I performed. I kept going when every signal in my system was telling me to stop. On the outside, I had it together. On the inside, I was running on fumes, chronically braced, and quietly certain that something essential in me was either broken or missing.

I didn't know then that what I was experiencing wasn't a character flaw. It was my nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do — mobilize, manage, and keep moving — because at some point, that's what felt safest.

Then I found somatic work.

Not as a concept. As an experience.

Learning to track sensation instead of overriding it. Noticing when my system was bracing and offering it something different. Finding, slowly, that my body wasn't the enemy — it was the way through.

That's still the work I'm in. As a practitioner in training, as a student of Somatic Experiencing®, as someone who sits in her own SE sessions and brings what she's learning into her own nervous system first.

I'm not here because I've arrived. I'm here because I know what it's like to be a high-functioning woman whose body has been trying to get her attention for years.

What I bring to this work:

Body-First Healing Institute Somatic Practitioner certification — trained in nervous system regulation, somatic tracking, and trauma-informed practice through Brittany Piper's lineage.

Student of Somatic Experiencing® (Peter Levine's work) — currently in SEP certification training, with ongoing supervision and personal SE sessions.

9 years as a barre3 instructor — which means I have spent nearly a decade helping people learn to inhabit their bodies with more awareness, less judgment, and more trust.

My own lived experience of nervous system dysregulation, recovery, and the slow work of coming home to myself.

A note on scope:

I am a somatic practitioner, not a licensed therapist. I work with nervous system awareness, regulation, and embodied integration. I do not diagnose, treat mental health conditions, or replace clinical care.

When someone's needs extend beyond my scope, referral is part of how I care for them. I'd rather be honest about what this work is and isn't than overpromise.