Welcome to The Holding Ground.

Here, you are invited to exhale.

The Holding Ground is a gentle space created for healers, helpers, and space holders , and for anyone seeking a steadier connection to themselves.

Whether you are looking for somatic support on your personal healing journey or a steady hand to help hold the back end of your healing business, you are welcome here.

This is a place of soft landings, grounded presence, and quiet care. This is a place to reconnect, rebuild, and rest.

Who I Support

I support individuals who are carrying more than their nervous system can comfortably hold. This may look like stress, overwhelm, shutdown, burnout, emotional heaviness, or the quiet sense that you are moving through the world on your own. Many of my clients come to me when something inside them is asking for a slower pace, a softer approach, or a place to reconnect with themselves in a fuller way. I work with people who are navigating life transitions, grief, chronic stress, or old patterns that continue to shape their present.

I also support healers, helpers, and those who hold emotional or energetic responsibility for others both personally and in their business. The people who care for everyone else often do so without places of their own to land. My work offers a grounded, trauma-informed space where you don’t have to hold everything together, perform, or stay “on.” Instead, you’re invited to arrive just as you are and let yourself be steadied and supported.

What I Offer

Somatic Experiencing® Healing Sessions

Somatic Experiencing® sessions offer a slow, supportive space to help your body and nervous system settle, unwind, and reconnect to a sense of steadiness. We work gently and at your own pace, following what feels safe and possible in the moment.

These sessions can support you with overwhelm, old patterns, transitions, or the feeling of holding too much. Together, we create room for your system to soften, find more capacity, and move toward healing in a grounded and compassionate way. Somatic Experiencing® touch sessions are gentle and steady contact that helps your body feel supported. Through very light, non-invasive touch, always with your consent, providing the nervous system with grounding and containment. This can help soften activation, ease overwhelm, and bring more presence into areas that feel tense or disconnected.

These sessions are especially supportive for those navigating:

  • Stress, overwhelm, shutdown, or exhaustion

  • Trauma responses, big or small

  • Nervous system dysregulation

  • Chronic patterns that feel stuck

  • Transitions, grief, or emotional heaviness

  • Feeling like you’re “holding too much”

Trauma Informed Support for Healing Businesses

This support is designed for healers who want the back end of their work to feel as grounded and cared for as the spaces they hold. Together, we tend to the administrative and operational pieces that often feel overwhelming or neglected, bringing clarity, steadiness, and structure to the parts of your practice that need it most.

This may include scheduling, client communication, invoicing, and the systems that help your work flow with ease. Everything is held through a trauma informed lens, honoring your capacity, your nervous system, and the unique nature of your healing practice.

The intention is to create a supportive foundation for your work so you can focus on what you love while feeling more supported, resourced, and accompanied in the background of your business.

Services

  • Discovery Call

    This free Discovery Call gives us a gentle space to get to know each other and see what kind of support feels right for you. It’s an opportunity for you to share your goals, concerns, and hopes, and for me to share how I work, the training I bring, and what you can expect from our time together. You’re welcome to ask any questions you have.

  • Somatic Experiencing Session

    A 30 or 50-minute Somatic Experiencing® session either online or in person offers time to gently explore what your nervous system is holding and what it may be ready to release. We move slowly and intentionally, following your body’s cues to soften activation, unwind long-held patterns, and reconnect with a sense of internal steadiness.

  • Trauma Informed Business Support

    Together, we tend to the administrative and operational pieces that often feel overwhelming or neglected, bringing clarity, steadiness, and structure to the parts of your practice that need it most.

    Our work together may include scheduling, client communication, invoicing, and the systems that help your work flow with ease. Everything is held through a trauma informed lens, honoring your capacity, your nervous system, and the unique nature of your healing practice.

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About Jen:

The Holding Ground was born out of my own journey , a path shaped by a deep understanding that healing asks for slowness, safety, and for steady, compassionate support. My own healing journey led me into personal work of Somatic Experiencing®, and ultimately to training and becoming a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. I also have a social work degree and for many years worked as a caseworker for the county.

I believe we need spaces of gentle holding to heal, reconnect, and take our next steps. My hope is that The Holding Ground offers you that kind of space, a place where your growth is supported. In my practice, I offer somatic-based support for individuals seeking deeper healing, as well as gentle, behind-the-scenes help for healing businesses.

Whether it’s a personal session or tending to the details that help your practice thrive, like scheduling, invoicing, or organization, my intention is always the same: to create a grounded, nurturing space where you feel held, supported, and valued.

My work is guided by softness, presence, and a trust in the body's wisdom. I hold a deep respect for the tender places inside each of us that know when it’s time to move, to rest, or to be witnessed without needing to change. Healing and allowing support in isn’t about rushing, it’s about noticing, honoring, and holding what arises.

If you are someone who feels called to slow down, to reconnect with your own body’s wisdom, or to find steady support for your healing business, you are welcome here. Whether you’re seeking help for yourself or for the work you offer others, I would be honored to walk alongside you.

Somatic Experiencing® an integrative approach to wellness that recognizes the interconnection between mind, body and spirit. Rooted in psycho-biology and neuroscience, it allows for a powerful path towards attaining inner clarity, personal fulfillment and physical and emotional health.  Somatic Experiencing® supports the nervous system in finding more ease and capacity. It gently helps complete protective responses and release stored survival energy. Our experiences live not only in thoughts and emotions, but also in how we breathe, move, and hold our bodies. Somatic Experiencing® works directly with these patterns to support healing. 

A Somatic Experiencing session is gentle, collaborative, and led by your body’s natural pacing. We begin by settling into the space together and checking in with how you’re arriving, physically, emotionally, and internally. From there, we follow what feels possible for your system in the moment. The place is slow and study. The intention is to create space for your body to unwind what it’s been holding, find a bit more ease, and reconnect with your own sense of safety and inner support.

During the session, I help you track your nervous system gently and stay within a range that feels manageable. We may work with grounding, resourcing, orientation, or slowing things down so your system can settle and reorganize. Sometimes we explore subtle movements, imagery, or supportive Somatic Experiencing® touch, always with your comfort and consent. SE touch offers grounding, containment, and support. It helps the body settle by giving the nervous system clear, calm input, often allowing areas that feel tight or overwhelmed to be supported, soften, be more present, and come back online.

What Somatic Experiencing® is:

What Somatic Experiencing® is not:

Somatic Experiencing® is not talk therapy, cognitive processing, or a method of revisiting traumatic memories in detail. It does not require you to analyze your experiences, re-live painful events, or push yourself into anything overwhelming.

Somatic Experiencing® is not a quick-fix technique or a forceful approach to emotional release. It doesn’t involve diagnosing, giving advice, or telling you what your experiences mean. Instead, it follows your body’s natural pacing and supports change through gentle awareness, regulation, and the completion of what your system has been holding.

Somatic Experiencing® is not a replacement for talk therapy or mental health treatment. It does not take the place of psychotherapy and is not intended to treat mental health diagnoses. It can be a supportive companion to therapeutic work, offering a body-based approach that helps the nervous system settle, integrate, and find more ease.