Hi, I'm Amanda.

 

I operate in that uncomfortable space where therapy, Instagram advice, and “just breathe" stop working — and instead I go straight for the body: fascia, nervous system, emotional patterns that refuse to shift no matter how self-aware you are. 

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I've not only done thousands of hours of training in my profession, but I've also lived what I teach. 

- I’ve transformed a two-decade substance abuse struggle into a life I’m deeply proud of—and I’ve been sober for 10 years.

- I left my marriage, and built a beautiful co-parenting relationship and genuine friendship with my ex-husband because I was willing to accept the difficult truth and work through the discomfort of splitting rather than stay in a long-term broken, resentful relationship.

- I've come out as a late-in-life lesbian and through emotional intelligence, compassion and energetic work helped my Southern Catholic family understand, accept, and embrace my relationship.

- And perhaps one of the most profound transformations has been my relationship with my father. I’ve reshaped the way my body and nervous system respond in his presence so I can show up as the functional adult I am today, rather than automatically reverting to the wounded child I once became. The anxiety and tension that used to take over are no longer running the relationship. Instead, I’m able to lead, model, and create an adult relationship with him.

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My history in a nutshell​

My diaphragm locked by age three. Holding my exhales in a freeze state became protection. By eight, my shoulders had rounded. Every time I saw my grandmother, she'd tell me to "stand up straight."

In my early twenties, I became a chronic jaw clencher.

Soon followed years of uncomfortable ear pressure.

Both hung around for decades.​

I learned at a very young age that when my body said no, and my anger asked me to push back, talk back or hold a boundary, the outcome for me wasn't good, so I shut down my anger. I went numb, escaped, withdrew.

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ARE YOU SIMILAR?​

​You might have explosive anger because no one was able to contain it for you, so now you get triggered and it spills out. Or maybe like me, you went the other way. Either way, the pattern is the same.

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In my work, we address the muscular tension and the emotional holding patterns together because chronic pain, tension and even many long-term conditions are rarely just physical.

 

Like Eckhart Tolle says: "Where there is pain, there is anger underneath it."

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MY WORK

I work with mothers who've done enough talking.

You know the holding pattern is in your body now.

You understand why you people-please, why you avoid conflict, why over-working or perfectionism makes you feel seen.

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I support you to work at the level where the armoring is actually stored.

Fascia and nervous system.

Get out of the story and into the body.

That's where somatic freedom lives.

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I work with mothers managing trauma, anxiety, emotional regulation, difficult relationships, life events like divorce, late diagnosis, body tension and discomfort.

The need varies.

The work is the same.