Kesha Fikes

My approach is somatic and psycho-political. It is informed by my previous research background in anthropology, as well as trauma-informed, somatic training in the following: Kathy’s Kain’s Touch Therapy practice; sensorial attunement practices from the Danis Bois Method (Perceptual Psychoeducation), and Somatic Experiencing®. This cumulative approach offers a framework for sensing into where a person or group feels unmet, overwhelmed, or numbed, be it at the level of one’s narrative descriptions of self, community, and/or the world, or via the ways in which one’s body has adapted to stress and injustices in the environment, past or present. Consults and sessions are held with deep relational listening: there are pauses at intervals to choicefully track unfamiliar and unmet emotional and physical states that inhibit and support spacious awareness of one’s or a community’s immediate reality, needs, and potential. Ultimately, this is about one’s physiology and soma supporting capacity to explore embodied agency, relationally, in an unrepaired world.