Building embodied tools to un-stick the stuck places in your life and relationships.
You may understand your patterns, your history, and the systems that shape your life. But understanding why something happens doesn't always mean having the tools to do something different when you're stressed, activated, exhausted, or overwhelmed.
I offer somatic counseling, coaching, and bodywork to help you develop practical ways to work with what's happening in your body, shift familiar patterns, and create more room for choice, connection, and change.
You can work with me individually or within a relationship. Together, we explore what's keeping you stuck and help you move closer to what you long for most.
Two decades ago, I was a work-all-the-time perfectionist youth organizer. My high-stress, juggling-too-many-balls, super cerebral lifestyle, combined with unhealed childhood trauma, left me feeling sick, anxious, disconnected from my body, and unable to consistently live my values in my relationships.
Bad news.
I lived and worked in a context that deeply valued self-reflection, praxis, and living our values. And yet, like many of the people around me, I struggled to shift my deeply embedded patterns when I was triggered, stressed, or overwhelmed.
I disconnected from myself and the people I cared about. I struggled with boundaries. I avoided situations that made me uncomfortable. Even with all my understanding and commitment to building a better world, I couldn't always access a different way of responding in the moments that mattered.
What began to change things was learning to listen to my body: developing my capacity to feel big emotions and sensations, stay present with experiences I might otherwise avoid, and practice new ways of responding that were more aligned with what I wanted in my life.
This work opened up possibilities I hadn't known were available to me. I wanted to share these tools with others.
Today, I partner with individuals and people in relationships to develop more capacity, more choices, and more ways of living in alignment with what matters most to them. The goal isn't simply to feel better or get unstuck. It's to have more room for connection, pleasure, curiosity, creativity, meaningful work, and the relationships and collective work that help make the world we want to live in.
You deserve to live and thrive.
You deserve to live as much as you've survived.
You deserve relationships where you can be connected to others without losing connection to yourself—with room for honesty, boundaries, pleasure, play, and love.
You deserve to get clearer about what lights you up, what you long for, and what you have to contribute. You deserve the support and freedom to move toward what makes you feel most alive.
You deserve more than getting better at managing the demands of a difficult world. You deserve room for curiosity, creativity, meaningful work, connection, and joy—and the opportunity to bring your gifts and energy to building a better world.
My values
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Body based
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Anti-Pathology
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Trauma Informed
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Rooted in Collective Liberation
“Bruin has been a catalyst for some of my deepest healing. The space that he creates has allowed me to unfold parts of myself that I hadn't previously felt worthy or safe enough to share with anyone. His gentleness, nuggets of wisdom, and ability to ask simple questions that help to reframe stuck thought patterns has been super helpful.
Bruin has helped me respect the power and strength of tenderness; the revolutionary struggle of slowing down and accepting guidance from my body.”
— WISE BODY CLIENT
