Somatic Experiencing® for
Anxiety, Trauma, and Overwhelm
Body-based support for the patterns insight alone hasn’t been able to shift.
Trauma, overwhelm, and anxiety aren’t
just experienced in your thoughts.
They live in your body—in your breath, your muscles, your impulses, and the patterns of your nervous system.
You’ve tried to think your way out of it.
But change doesn’t always come from more thinking.
Sometimes, it comes from feeling your way through.
I work with self-aware people who understand a lot about themselves—but still feel those patterns in their body and nervous system.
You may have done the therapy, read the books, learned the tools, and made sense of your story. But understanding why something happens doesn’t always change what happens in your body when anxiety rises, your system shuts down, or an old protective response takes over.
Somatic Experiencing® offers another way in: working directly with the physiological patterns underneath.
WHO I WORK WITH
MEET ALICIA
I’m Alicia Divers, offering 1:1 sessions in Brooklyn and online for people navigating anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, and patterns that insight alone hasn’t been able to shift.
My work centers on the physiology of the nervous system—how stress, protection, activation, and shutdown show up in the body. In sessions, we slow things down enough to notice what’s happening, work with the body’s responses in manageable ways, and build greater capacity for flexibility, connection, and change.
My approach is warm, relational, and grounded in Somatic Experiencing®, with additional training in mind-body coaching, somatic attachment work, and the Enneagram.
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner
WHAT IS SOMATIC EXPERIENCING®?
A different way of working with what you’re carrying.
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-based approach to stress, trauma, anxiety, and overwhelm. Rather than working only with thoughts and emotions, SE pays attention to how your experiences show up in your body and nervous system.
By slowing down and noticing sensations, impulses, and patterns as they happen, we work with your system at a pace it can manage—helping create more flexibility, capacity, and choice over time.
HOW WE WORK
The Human Capacity Method™.
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PHASE 01
Awareness
We begin by recognizing what’s happening in your nervous system—your sensations, impulses, emotions, and familiar protective patterns. -
PHASE 02
Recovery
We build greater capacity to move through activation, overwhelm, or shutdown and recover access to yourself. -
PHASE 03
Response Flexibility
We work with automatic patterns so you have greater range and choice in how you respond to what happens inside you and around you. -
PHASE 04
Integration
We bring that capacity into everyday life, so new ways of responding become increasingly available in the moments that matter.
HOW THIS WORK CAN HELP
You don’t need a diagnosis—or even the perfect words for what’s happening. People come to this work for many reasons.
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Anxiety and panic • chronic stress • overwhelm and dysregulation • burnout and exhaustion
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Trauma and lingering stress responses • medical experiences • feeling stuck, shut down or disconnected
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Attachment patterns • people-pleasing and boundaries • grief, loss and major transitions
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Public speaking • high-pressure situations • being seen • performance anxiety
SOMATIC ENNEAGRAM
The Enneagram offers a map for understanding our familiar patterns of protection, connection, and response. Somatic Enneagram brings that awareness into the body, exploring how those patterns show up in the nervous system and everyday life.
Alicia is a Certified Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Tradition and integrates the Enneagram into her somatic work when it is useful. Individual Enneagram work, private groups, workshops, and customized teaching experiences are also available by inquiry.
Understanding the patterns you know—through the body.
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WORK