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About 

Bridgett

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Welcome. I'm glad you're here.


I am an integrative somatic practitioner. I blend my training in the Hakomi method with a range of other somatic and mindfulness modalities, as well as with earth-based awareness, to support sensitive women & non-binary folks on their journeys of self-discovery and healing. My years as a registered nurse and my time as a field biologist deeply inform my approach. The work I offer is experiential, body-based, and present-moment oriented. I root my offerings in awareness of trauma, the nervous system, and practices for fostering resilience.

 

As a fellow sensitive, I know what it's like to feel the world deeply,

to care about it passionately, and to often feel overwhelmed by it.

 

My own journey has taught me that learning to listen and respond to our body is one of the most powerful gifts we can give ourselves for staying present to our lives and this world in a more embodied, joyful, grounded way. 

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My journey to this path

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Prior to becoming a somatic practitioner, I worked as a registered nurse for many years, specializing in community and public health. I worked with a diverse range of folks, the vast majority of whom struggled with unprocessed trauma that strongly affected their sense of self, their relationships, and their bodily health. My intuition told me these people were ill and suffering for reasons far more layered than Western medicine was able to address.

 

When I discovered Hakomi and the field of somatics, I knew I had found a missing piece:

listening and responding with compassion and skill to the voice of the body.

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The second missing piece came a few years later. After almost a decade in healthcare, I followed a gut-instinct which told me that deeper healing - for myself and for others - was to be found in the natural world. So I shifted my life and began a several year odyssey as an avian field biologist, working mostly in remote desert areas.

 

 

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This work was daily intimacy with wildness. It widened my perception of the wild lands, creatures, and rhythms I had always instinctually loved, and gave me an experiential map within my own body of how another, deeper kind of healing - a healing formed from our relationship with the natural world - might be possible. 

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This was another missing piece: that the deepest healing happens

in connection and collaboration with the natural world.

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My personal journey

 

As a sensitive being growing up in a challenging home environment, I often felt overwhelmed by how much I felt the world. I didn't know how to make sense of this intensity, and - like many sensitive children - internalized this experience, thinking that something was fundamentally wrong with me.

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This feeling of "not-okay" meant

I struggled to feel belonging in the world.

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This was a deep source of pain for me. Though I had a rich inner life and felt a great sense of connection to the natural world, part of me always felt a bit like I was on the outside looking in. 

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Discovering Hakomi and somatic work changed my life. For the first time, I had names, validation, and tools for what I was experiencing: I saw that my responses to the world were rooted in the biology of the nervous system and not in some personal failing; I slowly learned to discern messages in what had formerly only been a haze of intensity; and I began to see the ways in which my sensitivity was actually my most potent gift to the world. 

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The work I now offer others is a blend of what

I have found most personally healing.

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How I work

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I value deep non-judgmental listening, creating a felt sense of safety for my clients, balancing depth with humor and aliveness, and truly trusting the process of each person I am with. 

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Clients describe my style of working as safe, gentle, spacious, permissioning, subtle, and creative. I see my style as helping to invoke 'the shy animals' of experience to arrive with us - gently, safely, in their own way and time. 

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"Bridgett's understanding of and trust in Hakomi shines through with every session, and this creates a very safe container for exploration and inquiry."

-N.V. 

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"Bridgett will hold all you bring with great care and skill."

-S.Y.

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"Bridgett listened, validated, and guided me in a way that made me feel so whole and welcome to be all that I am."

-J.K. 

Training & Education

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  • Hakomi Institute Comprehensive 2-year Training

  • Hakomi Cascadia Core 1-year Training

  • Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach, Levels 1-2

  • NeuroAffective Touch, Levels 1-3

  • Polyvagal Toning 6-month training with Dr. Arielle Schwartz

  • Embodied Experiential Dreamwork 1-year training

  • Bachelors of Science in Nursing

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Influences

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  • nervous system health & polyvagal theory 

  • therapeutic mindful movement (yoga, Feldenkrais, Continuum, etc.)

  • somatic trauma work

  • mindfulness-based self-compassion 

  • evolutionary & interpersonal neurobiology 

  • Internal Family Systems/parts work

  • Focusing

  • embodied spirituality 

  • Taoism & Buddhism

  • insight meditation

  • dreamwork, story, & myth 

  • experiential ecopsychology 

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