ABOUT
Motherhood helped me see the cost of overthinking.
Too many moments where my body was there but my presence was miles away.
With my daughter, full of wonder, tugging gently on my sleeve to show me something ordinary, extraordinary, fleeting, and hearing myself answer, “just a second.” The bird, the butterfly, the moment itself flies away while my mind ruminates over a conversation from a month ago, my inner critic spinning over what others might have thought, my awareness of the present overshadowed by the past.
What I cared about most was right in front of me and I was missing it.
For my daughter, I wanted to be a woman who felt at peace, whose presence made her feel loved and valued, whose posture was soft but self assured, a woman who felt joy and didn’t question if I deserved it.
Hi beautiful soul, I’m Chantal
I guide women out of rumination - the replaying of conversations from months or even years ago, the looping inner critic that worries about how you’re perceived, the past moments that keep intruding into the present, and the constant anticipation of what might go wrong next. That place where your mind never really rests.
I guide you back into the present moment so you can fully experience the wonder of your life and the people you love without falling into the past or stressing about the future.
I’m here to help you finally feel mental space, clarity, unshakable calm and actually experience your life rather than overanalyze your way through it.
I'm a Somatic Practitioner trained in Somatic Experiencing®, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, and multiple body-based healing modalities
Growing up, I had never known an embodied woman.
I knew women who overanalyzed everything said by emotionally unavailable people, peers, and partners whose approval felt fragile.
I knew plenty of overwhelmed women juggling family, work, social obligations, self-care, elder care, pet care, every kind of care.
I knew exhausted women.
This became my pattern, too. Overthinking relationships, replaying conversations - what I should or shouldn’t have said or done, searching for where I went “wrong” and how to make it “right,” searching for approval. The spiraling mind, a tangle of thoughts that turns to fog the moment I reach for them.
It wasn’t until I found somatic healing that I was able to finally cultivate internal calm, and a quiet sense of self-security.
I first came to this work as someone in need of healing and support, just like you.
I learned to live in my mind because there were experiences in my life where feeling the full extent of my grief, anger, resentment, or fear was too overwhelming and too unsupported to stay present with.
As a young girl, my emotions were often dismissed as 'too much' or 'too sensitive,' and, like many girls and women, I experienced times when my body and boundaries weren’t honored, where consent was absent, and it was treated as “not a big deal.”
But these experiences accumulate to undermine our physical sense of security, and our ability to trust our own judgement when we’re uncomfortable and told we’re wrong to be. We start overriding our own instincts, second-guessing what we feel and know to be true. And that overthinking and self-censorship becomes a habit.
So I adapted. My mind took over - trying to control uncertainty, analyzing everything, replaying conversations and past events, worrying how I was perceived, that inner critic alive and loud. Overthinking became protection. It worked until it started to cost me my presence, peace and clarity.
The way my mind finally found peace was by building the capacity in my body to feel.
I’ve walked through the fire and I’ve come out more ALIVE.
Now I help other women walk through it too.
Here’s what I know:
Thinking can’t solve overthinking.
Insight and awareness are not enough to change ingrained patterns.
The trauma, stress and emotions that drive overthinking, rumination, worrying and inner criticism are woven into facia, breath and muscle.
The gut that tightens. The shoulders that brace. The breath that halts.
Finding internal calm, consistently, cannot happen without including the body.
Your body needs to complete the stress response from past experiences, which it does through feeling the big emotions you weren’t allowed to honor. What isn’t felt cannot disappear - it organizes your life from the shadows.
Our resilience lies not in avoiding discomfort but in learning how to sit with it safely and emerge more whole on the other side.
Somatics is transformative because it reframes what society pathologizes; the overthinking, anxiety, overwhelm, exhaustion, and tension are intelligent, protective adaptations. Your body operates exactly as it was designed to: to keep you safe, at all costs.
“How do I fix this” becomes “What is my body trying to tell me.”
Awareness is powerful, yes - but without embodiment, nothing truly shifts.
Together, we will use your body to move through your emotions and find closure on the experiences perpetuating stress in your body. Then,
Anger softens to clarity.
Grief opens into tenderness.
Fear finds comfort and transforms into safety.
Anxiety settles into peace.
Overwhelm melts into spaciousness.
Emotions when felt - transform.
The mind quiets without effort because it no longer has to manage what the body is holding.
ABOUT YOU/
ABOUT ME
If you’re like me you’ve probably
Done the therapy,
Read The Body Keeps Score,
Listened to the Mel Robbins podcasts,
Practiced Joe Dispenza meditations,
Gone to yoga,
Maybe even tried nervous system regulation like tapping.
But the racing thoughts still drain you and pull you away from joy and connection with who and what you love.
I now feel like this woman…
A woman whose mind is clear, who is present, whose posture is soft but self assured, who feels joy and doesn’t question if she deserves it.
Emotions become your guides, and no longer leave you in a puddle.
You rest before you collapse - your mind is able to settle into the moment, your muscles softening, a whole body exhale into simply being.
Your relationships are grounded in loving boundaries, where your “no” feels as good as your “yes.”
You don’t overthink it, you let it be.
I promise you it is possible. I feel honored to witness the transformation of my clients and how it changes the lives of those they love.
Because I’m human :)
A few fun facts about me
I’m half Swiss, which means I may accept cheese and chocolate as payment. (Kidding… mostly.)
I love the rain…you will find me singing, dancing and romanticizing life like a moody main character.
We have 10 chickens - which has cured me of any illusion that I’m in control of my life.
Cooking? Hard pass. After feeding four kids and a husband - all with different preferences - I’ve officially retired from caring about dinner.
I regularly lose my phone while holding it.
what clients are saying
MY EXPERIENCE
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Somatic Experiencing® /3 year program. Intermediate year
Integrative Parts Work / Fran Booth, The Embody Lab
The Polyvagal Institute Certified / The Polyvagal Institute
Somatic Mentorship / The Embody Lab
Mind Body Coach Certificate / The Embody Lab
Somatic Stress Release Certificate / Dr Scott Lyons, The Embody Lab
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy / The Embody Lab
Face yoga / Face Yoga Method
Integrative Trauma Practitioner, ITP-2, Meditation, Biodynamic Breathwork, Somatic Therapy / Integrative Psychology Institute
Masters of Sophrology – 3 year program
BS in Psychology from the University of Southern California.
Specialty Trainings:
Sophrology for Teens
Sophrology for Eating Disorders
