Hello & welcome! I’m Samantha Holland, and I use a unique blend of Clinical Somatics, Focusing, and Somatic Experiencing® to help therapists & clients get longer-lasting release from stuck stress, stored trauma, & chronic pain.
After 12 years of chronic pain & stress, I finally found relief through Somatics.
Now I teach practitioners what’s too often left out of ‘somatic’ trainings.
You know the techniques. You’ve done the trainings. You’ve got the certification. But when your clients see benefits in sessions yet the changes don’t last, you’re left wondering what you’re missing.
WHY?! This is what I’ve seen:
Most somatic trainings teach you about working with and from ‘the body’. But true Somatics is about the soma – that is, the whole, embodied person, understood as living process.
Somatic work requires an integration of movement, sensing, and learning (not just sensing, not just movement, and not just learning). All three elements are necessary to regulate a dysregulated system.
When you work with somatic techniques and modalities, but not with the whole soma, you’re missing the foundation that allows you to adapt, improvise, and meet each client exactly where they are.
That’s why clients plateau. That’s why the in-session changes that are so valuable, too often don’t last.
It’s not because you’re doing something wrong, or are missing ‘the’ somatic modality that matters. It’s because your training didn’t cover the foundational piece. It didn’t teach you about the soma, and what that means in practice.
When you learn to think somatically – not just apply somatic techniques – and to focus on the soma – not the body – everything changes:
You have a much clearer sense of what to do when your client doesn’t fit the textbook
You integrate movement, sensing, and learning in real-time, in a fully somatic way
Your clients experience deeper, lasting change – because you're working with the whole person, not just their body (and not just their trauma)