Anastasija Katcyna
Body Counsellor & Somatic Coach
Welcome to the space for those who want to deepen self-awareness, work with trauma, anxiety and emotional intensity, navigate ADHD, acute stress or life transition.
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About me
A space for those carrying trauma, relational wounds or difficult emotions (grief, anger, shame) they haven't found words for. Together, we work with the body - its physiology, its own logic - to ease what's underneath and build a nervous system that can settle.
Hi, I’m Anastasija, a Registered Somatic Therapist and Educator trained in Somatic Experiencing™, Dance & Movement Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Parts Work and mindfullness-based therapies.
My path into this work is both professional and personal - after years of living with chronic anxiety, undiagnosed depression and eating disorder, I found that working directly with the body created a shift that thinking alone could not.
Now I help others move out of chronic stress, disconnection or overwhelm through body-based work learning how to listen to and work with the nervous system directly. We create more grounded, regulated and honest relationship with themselves.
I bridge Western Somatic theory, Movement & Dance Therapy and real-time nervous system practice. Outside my private practice, I facilitate in-person groups, teach yoga in local studios and organize workshops, trainings and retreats. This work invites you to rebuild trust in your body, your intuition, your boundaries and your own rhythm.
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Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
SE®-informed Somatic Therapy is a body-oriented approach to psychological and physiological healing. Instead of treating the mind as the sole narrator, it listens to the body’s quieter language - muscle tone, breath rhythms, visceral tension, subtle posture shifts. These micro-stories reveal where stress, trauma, or emotion has been stored in the nervous system.
Somatic Therapy (ST) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. Trauma, from an SE® lens, is focused on how it shows up in the nervous system and how that dysregulation impacts life. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, ST helps us release, recover, and become more resilient. It is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings for healing trauma and other stress disorders from a nervous system lens. It can support recovery from PTSD and developmental trauma, as well as chronic fatigue, IBS, brain fog, looping thoughts, anxiety, numbness, and difficulties feeling safe or connected in relationships and more.
We can work together on
ADHD
Emotional intensity that shifts fast and tips into overwhelm
Rejection and criticism sensitivity
Anxiety, perfectionism, shame: holding it together through heavy compensation
Attachment patterning shaping how the dysregulation shows up
I don't diagnose nor treat ADHD. I work with the dysregulation underneath it, wherever it came from.
My role is to provide skillful ground and attentive presence. We begin with your body as a system that has adapted beautifully to survive. Together, we create the conditions for your system to soften, reorganize, and remember what safety feels like.
Trauma
Accidents, surgery, invasive medical procedures
Assault, abuse, neglect
Sudden betrayal, discovery, or the end of a long relationship
Chronic tension, hypervigilance, startle reflex
Shutdown, numbness, dissociation
It's not the event. It's the survival response that never finished. We work with the fight, flight, or freeze that's still running underneath it.
Attachment
Chasing closeness when it pulls away or disappearing the moment it gets close
Needing constant reassurance ot space - managing someone else's proximity to survive it
Wanting the contact or terrified of needing anyone
Pushing people away and panicking when they actually leave
Shame, a sense of being too much or never enough
Mistaking an old adaptation for personality
Emotional Support
Anger held back (jaw tension, headaches, a short fuse)
Grief (heaviness, exhaustion, helplessness)
Shame (collapse, shrinking, wanting to disappear)
Joy braced against - good moments read as a warning, not a relief
Looking fine while the body keeps the record underneath
PTSD
- Flashbacks, nightmares, memories the body relives rather than recalls
- Social anxiety - avoiding people, places, or situations t
- Startle reflex, scanning for threat, insomnia
- Numbness, disconnection, a future that feels foreclosed
What a session feels like: we start with where you are. Through awareness and gentle self-inquiry, we track breath, impulse, and sensation. I integrate Somatic Experiencing®, Movement Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Body-Mind Centering®, and relational attunement, adding nervous system education and practical tools as needed.
What tends to change: less hyper-vigilance, more presence; fewer shutdowns, more choice; steadier sleep and digestion; boundaries that hold; a kinder inner voice; greater capacity for emotions and life’s complexity. Over time, resilience grows - so you can meet change and external demands without losing yourself.
Start with one session - feel the difference in your body, not just your mind.
Experience
2023 - Present: Private Practice Somatic Therapist & Educator with SijaSomatics 2020 - Present: Private Practice Yoga Teacher & Educator 2015 - 2020: Private Practice Nutrition Counsellor
Education
RSMT/E - ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator
Degrees & Trainings Clinical Training in Somatic Therapy | Leven Institute for Expressive Movement Somatic Experiencing SE™ Advanced -in-training | Somatic Experiencing International Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health | The University of Edinburgh Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology | The Ohio State University Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory in Trauma Treatment
Additional Dance & Movement Therapy | Integral Dance Somatic EMDR Shadow Constellations Training for Therapists Katonah Yoga© Teacher Training Yoga Teacher Training Meditation & Breathwork Teacher Training Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program Foundation of Embodiment Certification Embodied Yoga Principles
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Nervous System Reset: 3 sessions
Insurances
