Work for Individuals
Supporting individuals sense what their bodies already know and learn how to respond — so they can move out of burnout and confusion, back to focus, ease, and joy.
Individual sessions and small group programs are available.
For clients in North Carolina, medical nutrition therapy is available.
Are you good at overriding fatigue and stress? Have you been doing it for years? Is your body begging for something different?
People I work with often have these internal struggles:
I don’t know how to be comfortable in the world.
I’m searching for something deeper.
I’m exhausted, and I don’t know how to change that.
I’m proud of what I’ve built, and I’m a great leader, but I’m running on fumes.
I don’t know how to not be so affected by others’ emotions and needs.
I thought achieving my goals would satisfy me, but I still feel empty.
I’m lost.
I have big goals, and I don’t want anything to stop me, but I am burning out.
I’m sick of working on myself. I’ve done enough, and yet I still feel stuck.
I just don’t follow through even though I want to.
Recovery is not reserved for people who already know how to slow down.
All of these experiences point to the same underlying experience: disconnection from self, from the body, from a sense of grounded clarity.
Being comfortable in the world comes from feeling at home within oneself. Being regulated comes from training the nervous system to move between states and learning to track oneself in real time. Being in relationships without being overwhelmed by others stems from deep connection to and trust in oneself.
This work is fundamentally about accessing the resources inherent in the human body and human spirit. Working with our physiology makes thriving possible.
Many people think that eating the right diet or doing the right practice or having enough discipline or checking the right boxes will give them the answers. All of these things can be helpful, and I can cut through the noise on social media, providing actual evidence-based guidance.
But ultimately none of these things really land in a lasting way if a person isn’t connected to themselves, in their own body.
The good news is: freedom is as close as your body.
I help people access that freedom.
“Allison is the best! I came to her with issues that I had dealt with for many months, and which I had not been able to ameliorate on my own. She helped me understand the root causes of my issues and what to do about them. More than that, she helped me see the interactions between mind, body, soul, food, and lifestyle that I had previously been unable to see. Allison is an excellent listener, she has a huge heart, spot-on intuition, and more certifications than you can shake a stick at. Highly recommended!”
“Allison is an exceptional and empathetic listener. I really appreciated how she helped me develop a deeper connection with my body and understand the impact of nutrition on it. During my time working with her, I was also able to make significant improvements in several physical symptoms that I had been struggling with!”
Sessions are offered individually or in small groups. Below are the pathways available for 1:1 work, followed by current group containers.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) gives your nervous system different choices. It expands the menu of options your system can choose from when challenged or triggered. Instead of going into a default mode — such as anger, rage, helplessness, numbing out, or crawling into a cocoon — you are able to make choices about how you respond. SE is primarily a method for renegotiating trauma (meaning that you are decreasing the charge you have around specific traumatic experiences). It also has great power to calm reactions to triggers in everyday life. By working beneath the level of story, it can completely change the experience you have of your body and the world.
These sessions are appropriate for:
Chronic stress, anxiety, or a persistent sense of being “on”
Trauma history, including relational, medical, or developmental trauma
Physical symptoms without a clear medical explanation
Difficulty feeling present, settled, or at home in your body
A desire to move beyond coping strategies toward genuine resolution
Sessions are offered as individual appointments or in a series. SE is a complement to, not a replacement for, mental health treatment.
Knowing what is healthy to eat is helpful. Knowing how food affects you personally and what patterns support you feeling good or make you feel bad is game-changing. Solid nutrition supports better energy, sleep, mental health, mental focus, and healthy weight. With targeted changes, results can be profound. Some clients have moved from completely overwhelmed, sleepless, or with unpredictable bathroom habits to calm, rested, and having regular, predictable bowel movements in weeks. Others have created sustainable ways of eating that result in sustained energy and stable mood.
Some examples of what this work can address:
The gut-brain connection, digestion, and mood
Brain fog and difficulties with attention and focus
Inflammation, hormone health, and metabolism
An enjoyable and supportive relationship with food
New client follow-up packages also available: 3 sessions / $475
Medical Nutrition Therapy is available to clients residing in North Carolina. Contact me to learn what nutrition services I can provide in your state.
Sometimes it feels impossible to identify what you need. Sometimes opinions are just noise, and the options are overwhelming. In these cases, I listen to you and catch the themes in your story. I listen for the holes and notice the patterns. I hear your values, identify the obstacles, and reflect back what you are saying so you can hear yourself. These sessions give you the space you deserve and the structure you need to feel your power and take the next step without second-guessing it.
In these sessions, you are not locked into one modality or another, and the fluidity can work well if you have a brain that moves fast and holds a lot at once. I use a combination of Somatic Experiencing, nutrition, mind-body medicine, mindfulness, and nature connection principles. As always, my occupational therapy background helps me track function, consider context, and identify what is actually getting in the way. These sessions allow us moment-to-moment freedom to determine where we would like to go. Sometimes we start in one direction and decide to move in another mid-session. Sometimes, we plan to integrate, but something emerges that wants just one kind of attention for a while. I follow you, mind and body.
Small groups are an intentional part of how I work. They hold something 1:1 sessions cannot: the recognition that your experience is not singular. Current offerings are below.
$497 — founding/beta rate
| 6 weeks | Thursdays 7–8:30pm ET | Next Cohort Starts in July |
A 6-week foundations course in nervous system science for practitioners, wellness professionals, and high achievers experiencing burnout.
If you are sharp, capable, and quietly exhausted — and you want to understand why your nervous system keeps pulling you back into the same patterns — this course was built for you.
For people who have spent years overriding their own signals, this is the course that makes coming back to yourself practical — not just possible.
Evidence-based, experiential, and built for people who want to understand the body they live and work in. Weekly group sessions are deepened by specific weekly missions and coaching support through messaging Monday - Friday.
You will leave with 6 tools to support regulation in your system and the lived experience to motivate and empower you to continue applying them.
The next cohort starts May 4. If this is the right time, trust that.
$897 — founding rate | Future cohorts | $1,200
| 8 weeks | Starts Fall 2026 |
This group is for practitioners, caregivers, and helpers who have spent years attuning to others — and as a result, have quietly learned to override themselves.
Many practitioners carry beliefs like: I must earn my place by serving. My needs come last. I am most valuable when I am useful to others. These are survival adaptations — encoded in the nervous system, reinforced by professional culture, sometimes rooted in early experience.
If you undercharge because asking for your worth feels uncomfortable — If you help from depletion and wonder why the work no longer nourishes you — If you shape your offerings around what others expect rather than what you are genuinely called to do — this group is for you.
Here you will have the space, structure, and support to reckon with the patterns that made you indispensable at your own expense — and to build a practice and a life that centers your own knowing.
1–2 scholarship spots available by application. Apply here if cost is a barrier.
Something brought you to the bottom of this page. Trust that.
Seekers, those committed to their own growth, those willing to step outside norms to be in their own integrity, people who are curious about many things. My clients are often people in some kind of service work. Many of them are highly sensitive, and often over-achieving. They come from diverse life contexts — in age, race, gender, experiences, perspectives. The commonality is soul orientation more than anything else.
In many ways, I work with my peers — people at a similar level of self-awareness and integrity — who simply haven’t had access to the specific map I’ve spent years building. I am accompanying them into the territories I know well.
The beauty of having many tools and licenses to use them is the ability to see patterns and provide answers in completely unique ways. The joy of my work with individuals is being nimble in session — listening deeply to what you are saying and noticing what you are NOT saying. Identifying what barriers are present and what supports are missing. Listening for your values, what you have tried, what mental constructs are present, how ready you are to try a particular strategy, what your symptoms may mean in context, what areas of your life are being impacted, and what strategies your nervous system uses.
I hold the long game in mind; I give you the next play or two.
No. Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to resolving trauma and dysregulation, and it is a complement to — not a replacement for — mental health treatment. Clarity Support and Emergent Sessions draw on principles from occupational therapy, mind-body medicine, and somatic practice. Nutrition services are clinical and evidence-based. None of these services constitute psychotherapy, and I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. If you are currently in therapy, this work can run alongside it — many clients find they complement each other well.
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-based method developed by Dr. Peter Levine for resolving trauma and chronic stress. Rather than working primarily through talking about what happened, SE works through the nervous system — tracking physical sensations, impulses, and responses to gradually discharge what got stuck. The work happens beneath the level of story, which is part of why it can shift things that years of talk therapy haven't reached. Sessions are gentle, client-led, and do not require you to relive or narrate difficult experiences in detail.
No. Many clients come with something specific — a trauma history, a health concern, burnout — and many come with a more diffuse sense that something isn't working even if they can't name it. Both are valid starting points. You don't need a referral, a diagnosis, or a clear articulation of what you need. Figuring out what you need is often part of the work.
Each session type has a different primary focus, but they often inform each other. Somatic Experiencing is specifically for nervous system work and trauma resolution. Nutrition sessions address how food is affecting your body — energy, sleep, digestion, mood, focus. Clarity Support is for the moments when you can't see clearly and need structured support to identify what you want or need. Emergent Sessions are for clients who hold a lot at once and want the freedom to move fluidly through all of it. If you're unsure which is right for you, reach out — I'm happy to help you identify the best entry point.
It depends on what you're bringing. Some clients come for a focused series of sessions around a specific issue and feel complete. Others engage over months or years as their life evolves. I hold the long view, but I don't manufacture dependency — the goal is always to build your own capacity, not to keep you needing me. In our first session or two, we can develop a clearer sense of what a realistic arc looks like for you.
I do not bill insurance. Medical Nutrition Therapy (available to North Carolina residents) may be partially reimbursable through some plans; I can provide a superbill for that purpose. For all other services, I encourage you to check whether your HSA or FSA covers out-of-network wellness or nutrition services, as many do.
Possibly — and the fact that you're asking is worth your attention. Many of my clients have done years of therapy, coaching, and personal development, and they come to this work because something is still not shifting. What I offer is a different map, not the same territory. Working through the body and the physiology reaches places that insight and narrative often can't. If you are tired of processing and still not feeling at home in yourself, that's exactly the gap this work is designed for.