Anna Joy Reedy

As you read my Somatic Experiencing directory listing, I invite you to lean back...take a longer breath...find a stretch...before digesting more of the information here. Welcome! Now offering the Safe and Sound Protocol. I’m here to support resilience, transformation, and home-coming in nervous systems in/near Seattle, in person, and for folks located elsewhere, virtually. I’m a self-care and pleasure advocate, body-positive, eco-passionate, third culture kid identified, Consent and Touch, and Authentic Relating community event facilitator, Cuddlist Advisory Board member, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. I would love to learn about you. I have provided therapeutic 1:1 sessions since 2013 when I aspired to hands-on emotional transformation support of individuals via home decluttering; in 2015 I added a therapeutic touch and boundary-training practice; I have blended Somatic Experiencing into my work since my own transformative encounter with it in 2015. My approach is always expanding and deepening as I include experiential knowledge from continuing education, and focuses on present-moment body-awareness (embodiment) and education around and unwinding of chronic as well as shock trauma (trauma resiliency). In sessions, you can expect us to devote some time to setting a clear container, so the space we share feels like a welcoming, warm, and risk-friendly environment. This provides the safety for earlier and more recent traumas to be approached and healed in a somatic (body-oriented), permanent approach. I use mental, emotional, spiritual/transpersonal, and nervous system tools. Along with helping you make the implicit, explicit, and find sense in what's going on, along with offering skill, tools, and presence, I work in a way that elevates the internal wisdom of my clients, and supports the unfolding of their authentic selves within their specific world, with the belief that what's truly best for you is what's truly best for your world. I am deeply informed by Internal Family Systems and by the consent work of Betty Martin and the many dimensions to which the radical beliefs in consent and body awareness and agency, apply. Patiently befriending desire leads to joy and clarity and life: your boundaries are a gift, and your desire is a gift. I aim to be both exploratory and structured, leaving room for what you need while holding the bigger picture of the path you're on. Bless your journey, past, present, and future. If you reach out and we work together, I look forward knowing, supporting, and walking alongside you.