Somatic Support for Motherhood
Motherhood · Pregnancy · Postpartum · Pre-Conception
Coming home to yourself as a mother.
A place to slow down, listen to your body, tend to what motherhood is bringing forward in you, and reconnect with your own inner knowing.
1:1 Somatic Coaching Offerings
Somatic Support for Motherhood, Pregnancy, Postpartum & Pre-Conception
Motherhood changes us.
Long before our little one arrives, becoming a mother can begin changing our relationship with our bodies, our partners, our families, and ourselves.
Trying to conceive can bring hope and longing alongside so much uncertainty. Pregnancy asks us to live inside enormous change. Birth can be beautiful, empowering, frightening, unexpected, or many things all at once. And postpartum can feel like entering an entirely new world while trying to find our feet inside it.
Then there is the quieter inner work of motherhood.
Old patterns can become louder. Our own childhood experiences can come closer to the surface. Parts of ourselves we thought we had worked through may return in completely new ways. We can love our children more than we knew possible and still feel overwhelmed, lonely, touched-out, unsure, or unlike ourselves.
I believe mothers need somewhere to bring all of this.
My work is a place to slow down and become curious about what is happening beneath the surface. We listen to the body, tend to the nervous system, and make room for the parts of you that may need some care, too.
Not so that you can become a perfectly regulated or perfectly healed mother.
But so that you can hear yourself a little more clearly and find your own way of being a mother.
These 1:1 sessions are designed to support you wherever you are on your motherhood journey.
A place for wherever you are on your journey…
Pre-Conception
Trying to conceive can bring us into an entirely new relationship with our bodies—hope, uncertainty, waiting, grief, longing and so much that can be difficult to put into words.
Somatic work offers a place to gently tend to what is here, reconnect with your body, and explore the deeper stories and experiences that may emerge as you prepare to become a mother.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is an enormous transition of body, identity and self.
Together, we can make space for what is changing, tend to fears or uncertainty, deepen your relationship with your nervous system, and cultivate trust in your body and your own inner knowing as you prepare for birth and motherhood.
Birth + Postpartum
Birth rarely follows a perfect plan.
Whether your birth felt empowering, difficult, medicalized, beautiful, frightening, unexpected—or some combination of all of these—there can be value in having a compassionate place to integrate what happened.
Postpartum brings its own profound reorientation. This work offers space for the mother inside all of that newness to be seen, supported and held.
Early Motherhood
Mothering a baby can bring extraordinary love alongside overstimulation, loneliness, relationship changes, decision fatigue, body changes and the feeling that you have somehow become an entirely new person.
Together, we make space for you—the woman behind the mothering—and for the younger parts of yourself that may be asking for your attention, too.
An Embodied, Trauma-Sensitive, Somatic Approach to Motherhood
How I work
My work is somatic, which simply means we don't only talk about what is happening. We also slow down enough to notice what is happening in your body.
A tightening in your chest. The urge to pull away. Tears that arrive before you know why. A familiar feeling of needing to get everything right. The part of you that becomes overwhelmed when your baby cries. The younger part of you that suddenly feels very close.
These small moments often have something to tell us.
I draw from Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Polyvagal Theory, mindfulness, attachment work, and parts work, but I don't follow a formula. Our sessions are shaped by you, what is happening in your life, and what your body is showing us in the moment.
Sometimes our work is about finding a little more steadiness. Sometimes it is about staying with an emotion that hasn't had much room. Sometimes we become curious about an old pattern or belief. And sometimes what is needed most is simply having somewhere to bring what feels hard.
I don't believe the goal is to become a perfectly regulated mother.
I am much more interested in helping you develop a relationship with yourself that has enough room for your humanness, your history, your instincts, and the mother you are becoming.
Finding your own knowing in a noisy world
There has never been more information about how to become a mother or raise a child.
Sleep. Feeding. Birth. Attachment. Milestones. Routines. Development. Parenting philosophies. Screens. Starting solids. There is always another book to read, expert to follow, podcast to listen to, or opinion to consider.
And somewhere beneath all of that information is you.
Your body. Your baby. Your relationship. Your knowing.
Our work isn't about giving you another set of rules to follow. It's about slowing down enough to notice what is happening inside of you. What feels like fear or pressure? What do you actually need? What feels true for you, your baby, and your family?
Somatic work can help create a little more space around the noise, so your own instincts and inner knowing become easier to hear.
And from there, you can begin to find your own way of mothering.
Hi, I’m Jessica
Somatic Practitioner · Registered Nurse · Mother
For more than 15 years, I have worked in the healing professions—as a nurse, yoga teacher, and eventually as a somatic practitioner studying Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Polyvagal Theory and attachment.
And then I became a mother.
My son, River, was born in January 2026, but in many ways my journey into motherhood began long before I held him for the first time.
Trying to conceive brought me into a deeper exploration of my own birth story and the implicit experiences held within my body. Pregnancy and birth deepened my relationship with trust, uncertainty and the nervous system. And postpartum brought me into one of the most raw, disorienting and beautiful transitions of my life.
Motherhood has made the work I've studied for years feel more alive than ever.
It has also clarified the women I feel most called to sit beside.
I now specialize in supporting women through pre-conception, pregnancy, postpartum and early motherhood—bringing together my experience in the medical world, years of somatic training, and my lived experience as a mother.
1:1 Somatic Support
50-minute sessions · Online via Zoom · Monday, Wednesday, & Friday
I currently have space for three new clients for Fall 2026.
If you feel drawn to this work, send me an email and tell me a little about yourself and where you are on your journey. From there, we can connect and see if working together feels like a good fit.
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of THAT
Don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek THAT.
- Rumi
I am honored to accompany you on this transformative journey. Together, we will explore the depths of your inner world, uncover the patterns that shape your experiences, and embrace the wisdom of your body as a guiding force in becoming a mother.