The Flourish Center for Somatic Healing
Healing trauma from the beginning here you will embark on a transformative journey to holistic well-being.
The Flourish Center for Somatic Healing, where the power of your body’s wisdom to heal meets compassion, skill and care.
Comprehensive Somatic Wellness Services Experts
Specializing in Elevating Lives Through Somatic Therapy
Trusting the Wisdom of the Body
Trusting the Wisdom of the Body in Healing means recognizing that the body holds innate intelligence and the capacity to guide us toward recovery and balance. In trauma healing, this concept emphasizes tuning into the body’s sensations, signals, and responses, allowing it to release stored tension and process emotional wounds.
By trusting the body’s natural impulses—such as shaking, deep breathing, or grounding—we honor its ability to heal without forcing or bypassing the process. This approach nurtures deeper self-awareness, restores nervous system regulation, and cultivates a sense of safety and well-being from within.
Active Listening opens the door to Healing
Active Listening opens the door to healing by creating a safe and compassionate space where individuals feel truly heard and understood. This deep, intentional form of listening involves giving full attention, suspending judgment, and responding with empathy. By validating someone’s experiences and emotions, active listening fosters trust and connection, allowing unresolved feelings to surface and be processed.
It helps individuals feel valued and supported, which can reduce emotional isolation and open pathways for healing emotional wounds, fostering greater self-awareness, and encouraging personal growth.
The Importance of Curiosity
Curiosity plays a vital role in healing trauma by encouraging openness and non-judgmental exploration of one’s emotions, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Instead of reacting to trauma with fear or avoidance, approaching it with curiosity allows individuals to gently investigate their inner experiences and patterns. This compassionate inquiry creates space for understanding and processing unresolved wounds without overwhelming the nervous system.
By staying curious, individuals can uncover the
deeper layers of trauma, fostering insight, resilience, and the possibility for transformative healing. Curiosity helps shift from feeling stuck to discovering new ways to heal and grow.
We Heal in Connection
Healing trauma in connection with others is essential because human beings are wired for relationships, and many traumas are rooted in relational wounds. Safe, supportive connections offer the space to rebuild trust, feel seen, and be emotionally held.
Healing in connection allows for co-regulation of the nervous system, where we attune to another’s calm presence, which fosters safety and reduces feelings of isolation. Sharing our pain and experiences with empathetic others helps us process and release trauma, transforming disconnection into belonging. Through healthy relationships, we can restore a sense of safety, connection, and emotional resilience.
Explore ALL of our services
Embark on a transformative journey to holistic well-being with our array of specialized services, ranging from somatic bodywork and yoga therapy to birth trauma resolution, grief support, and empowering workshops, tailored to meet each individual’s unique path to healing and resolution of their early trauma.
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Repair Your Relationship with Your Body
We help you reconnect with your body through trauma-informed practices, allowing for deep healing and restoration. Our therapies provide the space for your body to release stored tension and trauma, supporting its natural ability to heal.
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Repair Your Relationship with Yourself
Our services support emotional and physical reconnection, helping you rediscover your inner strength. We guide you in healing unresolved issues and past experiences, fostering a compassionate relationship with yourself.
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Repair How Your Body Stores Experiences
Through somatic healing techniques, we work to release deeply held physical and emotional patterns. This can transform the way your body processes stress, helping you feel more balanced and in control.
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Experience the Difference of Trauma-Informed Care
Our center offers a unique approach to care, rooted in an understanding of trauma’s impact on both the mind and body. We provide safe, compassionate treatment designed to support your healing journey.
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The Power of Touch is Beyond Words
Our hands-on therapies can create profound feelings of safety, release, and connection. Through therapeutic touch, we help you repair developmental trauma and stress, bringing lasting relief and support to your whole being.
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Specialized therapy
We curate a sanctuary for transformative healing. Our specialized therapy offers many different somatic therapies, ancient yoga practices, and over two decades of expertise to offer personalized services ranging from trauma-informed bodywork and yoga therapy to early trauma resolution, grief support, and empowering classes workshops, guiding you on a unique journey toward holistic trauma healing.
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Somatic Experiencing DARe
Guided trauma resolution and self-regulation techniques to alleviate chronic pain, anxiety, and foster overall peace.
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Safe and Sound Protocol
A listening system designed to increase vagal tone, promoting a sense of safety and resilience in the face of life’s challenges.
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Birth Trauma Resolution
Specialized approaches, including bodywork, Somatic Experiencing, and the Safe and Sound Protocol, to address and heal birth-related traumas.
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Grief and Loss Support
Compassionate care for those navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, IVF loss, and transgenerational loss.
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Pre and Perinatal Care
Comprehensive support for the entire perinatal journey, from preconception to postnatal, emphasizing physical and emotional well-being.
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Workshops
Empowering classes covering birth and parenting, yoga, and support groups, fostering community and knowledge sharing.
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Bodywork for Babies
Gentle and nurturing bodywork for infants, promoting overall well-being and supporting healthy development.
Our Happy Clients!
Immensely Grateful
I am immensely grateful for Lakshmi’s guidance. She’s helped guide my 5-year-old through complex emotions and behavioral challenges stemming from her father’s car accident. Lakshmi’s teachings on the importance of pausing and expressing emotions with tact have not only benefited my daughter but have also been invaluable to me. Meeting Lakshmi has truly been a… Read more “Immensely Grateful”
attentive pre- and perinatal care
Over the years, Lakshmi has provided attentive pre- and perinatal care to me and my (4!) babies. She has an amazing grasp about how to apply massage, yoga and other healing modalities. Whatever issue I bring to her, she advises practically, with confidence and tenderness. She has helped me with many issues, including pubic symphysis… Read more “attentive pre- and perinatal care”
pregnancy and birth
My second pregnancy and birth were very different from my first, in large part thanks to Lakshmi’s care and wisdom. Lakshmi taught me many little adjustments and modifications to my day-to-day life that vastly reduced my pubic symphysis pain. Massage and craniosacral therapy from the second trimester up until birth were incredibly therapeutic in terms… Read more “pregnancy and birth”
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Unlock the door to your transformative healing journey by scheduling a $70 consultation with The Flourish Center for Somatic Healing — a personalized opportunity to discuss your unique goals and explore how our specialized services can support your path to holistic well-being. The consultation fee applies to your first appointment if you choose to work with us.
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Mon: 230p - 7p
Wed: 9a - 5p
Fri-Sun: 9a - 6p
Contact
Phone: +1 919 - 228 - 8856
Email: info@flourish....com