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About Me: From Survival to Somatic Safety

I help people carrying the weight of chronic physical tension, exhaustion, and emotional holding to reconnect with their innate ability to heal—so they can step out of survival mode and fully inhabit their lives again.

 

My path to this work didn't start in a lecture hall. It started in a childhood home heavy with the friction of unexpressed pain, volatile conflict, and emotional absence. As a child, I learned early how to absorb the energy, vibrations, and frequencies of the environment around me—standing guard, managing the chaos, and learning how to soothe myself when the adults around me were drowning in their own battles.

 

At 14, that foundation shifted again when I experienced family separation, sent to live across borders with relatives I barely knew. Like many who face early displacement, I channeled that drive into physical mastery—becoming a professional triathlete, pushing my body to its absolute limits of endurance. For a long time, I thought I had outrun the past.

 

When the Body Remembers

Then, I returned to my childhood home. Every wall, window, and piece of furniture brought back everything I had tried so hard to forget. The hidden PTSD awakened, plunging me into deep clinical depression. I survived on medication just to function through the day and sleep at night, pushing my body through grueling athletic training because it was the only thing keeping me anchored.

 

Until the day my body simply collapsed and demanded to be heard.

 

I woke up with an overwhelming cascade of conditions hitting me all at once: fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, POTS, psoriatic arthritis, severe environmental and food allergies, constant bronchial infections where I literally couldn't breathe, and even a terrifying scare with bladder cancer.

 

It was harrowing. Yet, right through the middle of this storm—while navigating a painful marriage that eventually ended, and completing my rigorous BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy—my deep fascination with chronic pain became my life's survival mission.

 

The Laboratory of Lived Experience

Driven by absolute desperation, I became my own research lab. I applied everything, made mistakes, and initially treated patients by standard textbook protocol while using myself as the experimental subject.

 

And in doing so, I started noticing the massive, glaring gaps in medical and physio science. I saw how standard protocols were failing my patients, just as they were failing me. Reading textbooks was helpful for the anatomy, but the clinical explanations were often too complicated and disconnected from reality.

 

I didn't learn nervous system regulation from a manual—I learned it by living it.

 

By turning inward—and discovering powerful tools like EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and energy healing to safely untangle the emotional and physical loops locking my body in pain—I healed every single one of those conditions, reclaiming my breath, my vitality, and my life.

 

The Architecture of True Healing

Today, I use everything I survived so you don't have to make the same exhausting mistakes. I bridge the absolute safety of my clinical training with the raw wisdom of my lived experience and somatic modalities.

 

My work isn't about giving you a rigid set of exercises or fixing you from the outside. I am here to help you access your body in a way that allows your own body to bring healing to itself. I facilitate the journey for you to find it—and that is all.

 

I hold a space for you that is free of judgment, deeply compassionate, and rooted in absolute safety. You don't have to explain your pain away here, and you don't have to carry it alone. Let’s help your body remember how to breathe, soften, and heal.

 

Qualifications & Clinical Background

• BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy — Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

   

• AS (Hons) Exercise Physiology — Bergen Community College, USA

   

• Trauma-Informed & Somatic Practitioner

   

• Lower Back Pain & Complex Widespread Pain Specialist - Brazil

   

• Trigger Point & Chronic Condition Integration - Brazil

   

Somatic & Holistic Modalities

• EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) for Pain & Emotional Healing

   

• Nervous System Regulation & Somatic Unwinding

   

• Reiki (Level II, Working Toward Mastery)

   

• Breathwork & Elemental Visualization Frameworks

   

• Guided Meditation & Inner Child Healing

   

• Energy Healing & Multidimensional Support

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