IF you’re CRAVING A DEEPER CONNECTION to YOURSELF, OTHERS + the living world,
I’m here to help you create it.
Here, we work with your body to move out of the patterns that keep you stuck—anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, chronic tension—and into more ease, choice, and connection.
You’ll start to feel more comfortable in your body and more connected to who you are, how you feel, and what you need, while growing more confident in speaking your needs and expressing your limits.
Through one-on-one somatic work, dance ceremonies, integration practices, and nature-based practices, you’ll be supported in accessing your body’s innate healing capacity. Together, we focus on helping you connect more deeply to your emotions and bring unresolved trauma to a place of completion, freeing up space for you to move through life with curiosity, choice, and embodied presence.
Healing here isn’t just personal—it ripples outward, deepening your capacity to relate to others, the land you inhabit, and something larger than yourself.
Hi! I’m Suzana.
As a ceremonialist + somatic specialist focused on early developmental, ancestral, intergenerational, bicultural, and relational trauma and human attachment, I am trained in therapeutic somatic approaches that support our nervous systems, identify and shift behavioral and emotional patterns, and honor our interconnected and interdependent experiences as relational beings.
In my one-on-one practice, I support clients in developing secure ways of relating and improving their relationship with both self and other by working directly with the nervous system to increase regulation and capacity so that trauma can naturally release in a safe and well-supported way, paving the way for secure attachment and a more resilient nervous system.
As a Somatic Practitioner, I'm here to help you discover how you can heal trauma and be more connected within your body, mind, and soul so that you can make decisions more aligned with your truth, create lasting change in your life, cultivate more deeply connected relationships, and move through the world with greater freedom, more fully embodied in your truth.
Approach/HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
The support I offer is built on the progression of many deep healing studies over the years. I utilize the concrete trauma healing tools gained from training in both TEB/Transforming Touch® and Somatic Resilience and Regulation® (the work of Kathy Kain and Stephen J. Terrell), and deeper somatic studies in attachment through Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience training with Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
Our work together is also informed by a wide array of neurophysiology + relational models by a variety of incredibly wise and experienced teachers: Peter Levine, Sue Johnson, Stan Tatkin, Richard Schwartz, Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Resmaa Menakem, Dan Siegel, Ester Perel, and Emily Nagoski, among others.
As a ceremonialist, I also integrate the knowledge and tools gained from 19 years spent working with indigenous teachers of various traditions, the Balkan wisdom of my ancestors, many years of experience as an embodied movement facilitator + wilderness rites of passage guide, and my personal process of reversing disease in the body, which has led me to study a myriad of ways to heal and live a more empowered, happy, and fulfilling life and given me the tools and experience to support others in doing the same.
EXPERIENCE/COMPLETED TRAININGS
TEACHING ASSISTANCESHIP
Somatic Resilience and Regulation®
with Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell
Transforming The Experience-Based Brain: An Integrative Neurodevelopment Approach to the Treatment of Developmental Trauma utilizing Transforming Touch®
with Stephen J. Terrell
Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience®
with Diane Poole Heller
completed: DARe 1 - Fundamentals of Attachment Styles; DARe 2 - Attachment Strategies for Adult Relationships + DARe 3 - Neurobiology, Attachment & Secure Relationships
Trauma Solutions Therapy Mastermind Circle
with Diane Poole Heller
Secure Attachment Strategies in Times of Crisis
Intergenerational Trauma: From Repair to Reconciliation
Ancestral Lineage Healing
with Daniel Foor
Plant Medicine Facilitation, Integration and Ethics
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines
School of Lost Borders Wilderness Rites Guide
with Meredith Little, Gigi Coyle, Betsy Perluss, Angelo Joseph Lazenka and Petra Lentz-Snow
Embodied Dance Facilitator (Dancing Freedom)
Somatic Resilience and Regulation® with Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell
from 2025-onward