Somatic Active Imagination: What is it and How can it Help Me?

"What if your body and inner wisdom already hold the answer?

In my sessions, I’ve seen women in domestic violence shelters completely stop cutting, bleeding out and other self-harming behavior, within six weeks. I’ve watched creative and writing blocks dissolve, asthma resolve, panic after being trapped in a fire ease, and deep shame lift. Clients have ended cycles of codependency, resolved low self-worth, attachment wounds, and chronic anxiety.

Somatic Active Imagination

I’ve seen picking and self-mutilation stop. Fear of public speaking leave. Recovery from narcissistic abuse unfold. Inner confusion about purpose and passion finally make sense. Grief and sorrow become gifts from love. Fear of boundaries and saying no replaced by respect and clear communication. Money issues and financial scars are revealed and new choices are made available.

I’ve seen extreme physical pain become a teacher, guiding people to change careers, care for their bodies, and restore health. From survival anxiety to control and security patterns, from poverty mindset to wealthy fear of not being enough, Somatic Active Imagination provides clarity, understanding and guidance on what holds us back. Unresolved issues, frustrations, and fears clear up, quiet down and take on new purpose.

This is the work of Somatic Active Imagination.

It combines Jung’s approach to working with the Unconscious with somatic trauma healing. Together, we dialogue and listen to the body and the parts of your inner world that have been pushed aside, abandoned, orphaned or unheard.

If you’d like to understand how this actually works, here’s more:

So much of our pain, confusion, and even our creativity and brilliance lives beneath the surface of what we consciously know. Somatic therapies help us access what’s stored in the body. The anxiety, anger, trauma, even experiences like environmental shock from fires, floods, or earthquakes are logged into our cellular memory. Episodes of cultural stressors and family upheavals, abrupt change or the duration of repressed parental dysfunction straddles both the terrain of body and soul. Our bodies remember everything we’ve tried to push down or survive, and they often show us exactly where healing needs to happen through symptoms, patterns, or moments we feel stuck.

Active Imagination, which comes from Carl Jung, brings another essential layer. Just like the body stores what’s unspoken, our Unconscious holds the parts of ourselves we’ve ignored, abandoned, or never had the safety to explore. It also holds our deepest creativity, wisdom, and even insights that feel collective or cosmic. Jung called Active Imagination his most important tool, using it for years to navigate his own inner world before introducing it to others.

I first studied Active Imagination during my doctoral work in depth psychology, long before becoming a therapist. Over time, I became certified in somatic trauma therapies for polyvagal nervous system and realized how naturally these two approaches belong together. The body and the Unconscious both speak in symbols, sensations, emotions, and images. Together, they provide understanding for action and new choices.

This work isn’t about forcing change. It’s about listening in new ways to your body, to your inner wisdom, and to the parts of you that have waited quietly for the space to be seen and heard.

If you’re curious about how Somatic Active Imagination might support your growth, your clarity, or your next steps, I invite you to explore this with me. There’s no pressure. Just the possibility of discovering what your body and your Unconscious already know, and how that knowing can bring relief, understanding, and real change.

I’m here when you’re ready."