Tracy works with adults (18+). She sees clients in person and via telehealth.
Tracy is not accepting new client consultations requests.
At this time, Tracy does not accept insurance. Private pay and limited sliding scale options are available upon request.
Do you spend your days holding space for others —and find it hard to let yourself be held? Has talk therapy taken you far, but left you feeling like something essential is still waiting? How would it feel to actually be at home in your body — to allow who you really are, without having to manage or perform?
Working with me:
Our work together draws on trauma-informed acupuncture, somatic parts work (IFS), and NeuroAffective Touch® — a relational touch modality that works directly with the nervous system to support the kind of safety that makes deeper healing possible. Rather than trying to fix or override what your system is doing, we follow it. We listen to what the body has been holding, move at a pace your nervous system can actually use, and build — slowly and collaboratively — a more steady sense of being okay from the inside out. For many people, integrating touch into this work reaches places that words and insight alone simply can’t. This work is also available as body-oriented somatic coaching — a dedicated container for those who want to engage IFS, NeuroAffective Touch®, and somatic processing outside a traditional therapy frame, including people located beyond Oregon.
My work is guided by deep respect for the body’s pace and wisdom. We move at the speed of trust, learning together what that means for your body. Whether we’re working with parts, following sensation, or simply making space for something that wants to emerge, I think of this work as accompaniment — witnessing you in ways that call you home to yourself and lending presence and courage to be with what arises.
I work with clients who may identify as:
- Therapists, practitioners, coaches & other helping professionals
- Members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community
- Neurodivergent
- BIPOC
- Highly sensitive people
Clients can find support with:
- Somatic regulation
- Healing from developmental and attachment trauma
- Connecting with the body and emotions
- Getting to know your system and your parts
- Caregiving and practitioner parts that are overworked and need tending
- Living with chronic illness
My approaches include:
- Trauma-informed acupuncture
- Internal Family Systems & somatic parts work
- Somatic resilience and regulation
- Co-regulating touch
- NeuroAffective Touch®
Professional background
I am a Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified NeuroAffective Touch Practitioner, Level 2 Internal Family Systems Practitioner, and Certified Body-Oriented Coach. I’ve been practicing trauma-informed acupuncture since 2013 and somatic work since 2017.
I do this work because I know what it’s like to feel disconnected from your own body, to not trust what’s happening inside, to keep searching for something outside yourself that will finally make you feel okay. I also know what it shifts when you realize your body has wisdom, when you can be present with yourself instead of constantly scanning for what others need, when your parts become allies instead of obstacles.
Who I am in the wild…
I am perpetually seeking, always learning, and sometimes I disappear into a favorite novel I’ve already read three times. I am nourished by regular doses of solitude, moving my body and heart-to-heart connection with a close friend. I’m often renegotiating how I engage with my life as my own chronic illness, ADHD, and hypermobility ebb and flow with aging. Some of the things that make me happy include mountains, rivers, my garden, being on my bike, ‘aha’ moments, my chickens, dogwoods in bloom, and scratching the ears of my neighbor’s pot-bellied pig.
Testimonials
“One of the first things that comes to mind when I think of our work together that feels paramount and I very much appreciate is: safety. The deep sense of safety and care that I feel with you and in your space is remarkable. Being in your care feels like a deep sigh of relief.
“I feel like I can show up who and how I am and no matter what that is I will be valued and cared for. Your asking often and in an unhurried way if things feel ok from the amount of lighting, to temperature, to what we are focused on at any given moment has helped me to know and trust myself more and more.
“I also really appreciate the collaborative and creative approach you bring to all the work we do together. Your ideas have helped me go from feeling confused and stuck to clear and empowered.”
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“I have done somatic work before and it isn’t the same. With Tracy there is an element of consent that comes from the body and from young parts of self that allows for a much deeper kind of somatic work.”
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“As a person living with multiple sclerosis, I have struggled with relating to my body and understanding its needs, seeing it sometimes as an enemy that has betrayed me, untrustworthy. The communication between my mind and my body felt so broken. My work with you has helped me to repair this schism and learn entirely new (to me) ways of relating and speaking to myself.”
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“Since working with you, my relationship with my body has changed in profound ways. I respect it more, I listen to it more, I more naturally look inward to find answers to my questions and to regulate my state.
Now that I am doing a better job of listening to and respecting my body, I think it is trusting me more and it more apt to respond in ways that I can understand. It feels like my mind and my body are aligned now, in a way that difficult to describe because it is so inherent. It seems basic, but it’s actually life-changing. ”
Are we a fit?
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