Anastasija Katcyna
Body Counsellor & Somatic Coach
Verified by It's Complicated
Available for new clients
A fellow human supporting others in easing their stress by creating a place where you can feel safe. Together we build capacity to meet difficulties with more clarity & ease through body-based approaches.
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At a glance
Last active
Experienced on It's ComplicatedAbout 1 year on It's Complicated
Offers free 30 minute introductory callThis provider offers a free introductory call
Note from AnastasijaI am a trauma-informed somatic therapist and currently welcoming new clients for both short-term and ongoing therapy.
Usually responds within 2 hours
About me
Hi, I’m Anastasija, Registered Somatic Therapist and Educator . My background weaves Somatic Experiencing™, Polyvagal Theory, Parts Work, Dance & Movement Therapy, Public health and Yoga.
My path into this work didn’t start in textbooks - it began on the dance floor, in movement therapy, on the yoga mat, in meditation, in self-exploration and personal trauma work. That’s where I first learned how the body holds stories too deep for words. The body as an ally: a direct, lived experience capable of holding pain and pleasure, suffering and joy at the same time. The body is self-organizing, intelligent, always moving toward homeostasis when the right conditions are given. That realization shaped everything I do.
Today I bridge Western trauma theory, Eastern philosophy, and real-time nervous system practice. Outside my private practice, I teach yoga in local studios and facilitate workshops, trainings, and retreats.
This work invites you to rebuild trust in your body, your intuition, your boundaries, and your own rhythm of healing. My approach is rooted in nervous system attunement and regulation, embodiment, and practical tools for living with more presence and resilience.
I value honesty, pace, and sovereignty - you’ll never be rushed beyond your capacity.
My path into this work didn’t start in textbooks - it began on the dance floor, in movement therapy, on the yoga mat, in meditation, in self-exploration and personal trauma work. That’s where I first learned how the body holds stories too deep for words. The body as an ally: a direct, lived experience capable of holding pain and pleasure, suffering and joy at the same time. The body is self-organizing, intelligent, always moving toward homeostasis when the right conditions are given. That realization shaped everything I do.
Today I bridge Western trauma theory, Eastern philosophy, and real-time nervous system practice. Outside my private practice, I teach yoga in local studios and facilitate workshops, trainings, and retreats.
This work invites you to rebuild trust in your body, your intuition, your boundaries, and your own rhythm of healing. My approach is rooted in nervous system attunement and regulation, embodiment, and practical tools for living with more presence and resilience.
I value honesty, pace, and sovereignty - you’ll never be rushed beyond your capacity.
I speak:
EnglishRussian
Location:
Columbus, United States
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Treatment Approaches
Body therapyRecommended for those who want to connect their mind and body to release stress or trauma through physical sensations and movement.
Somatic ExperiencingRecommended for those who want to use the mind-body connection to address the effects of trauma and restore natural regulation of the nervous system.
Trauma Informed CareRecommended for those who have experienced trauma and need a safe, supportive space to heal at their own pace.
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.
My role is to provide skillful ground and attentive presence. We begin with your body - not as a problem to fix, but 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.
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®, Parts Work, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic EMDR, Body-Mind Centering®, and relational attunement, adding nervous system education and practical tools as needed.
During the sessions we help the body complete interrupted protective responses - releasing stored survival energy and restoring the system’s natural capacity for regulation. This process transforms patterns that once kept the body in cycles of stress, disconnection, or shutdown.
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.
“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.” Peter Levine
Trauma can come from a single overwhelming event or from stress that builds up over time. Both can shake the nervous system and make it harder to live with resilience and ease. It may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, epigenetics, systems, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.
Start with one session - feel the difference in your body, not just your mind.
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.
My role is to provide skillful ground and attentive presence. We begin with your body - not as a problem to fix, but 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.
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®, Parts Work, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic EMDR, Body-Mind Centering®, and relational attunement, adding nervous system education and practical tools as needed.
During the sessions we help the body complete interrupted protective responses - releasing stored survival energy and restoring the system’s natural capacity for regulation. This process transforms patterns that once kept the body in cycles of stress, disconnection, or shutdown.
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.
“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.” Peter Levine
Trauma can come from a single overwhelming event or from stress that builds up over time. Both can shake the nervous system and make it harder to live with resilience and ease. It may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, epigenetics, systems, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.
Start with one session - feel the difference in your body, not just your mind.
Experience
2 years in practiceAbout 1 year at It's Complicated
2023 - Present: Private Practice Somatic Therapist & Educator with SijaSomatics
2020 - Present: Private Practice Yoga Teacher & Educator
2015 - 2020: Private Practice Nutrition Counsellor
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
Somatic EMDR
Dance & Movement Therapy | Integral Dance
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
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
Somatic EMDR
Dance & Movement Therapy | Integral Dance
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
Free • 30 min • Online
A first meeting for us to get to know each other. You’ll learn how Somatic Therapy works, and together we’ll sense whether this is a good fit for both of us.Nervous System Reset: 3 sessions
€190 • 3 hr • Online
A short, focused offering designed to help you come back into your body, orient your nervous system, and build practical literacy around stress, emotion, regulation.
Across 3 sessions, we work with:
-Nervous system education: understanding your stress responses, patterns and resourcing
-Emotional & nervous system literacy: learning to recognize activation, shutdown and regulation as lived experiences
-Body awareness: gentle somatic work to increase sensing, grounding and choiceIndividual Session
€70 • 1 hr • Online
A somatic therapy session will begin by grounding and sensory awareness, letting the body set the pace. We start with where you are. Through awareness and gentle self-inquiry, we track breath, impulse, and sensation. I integrate Somatic Experiencing®, Parts Work, Polyvagal Theory, Somatic EMDR, Body-Mind Centering®,relational attunement. The work helps uncouple old protective responses, build capacity, and leave you more coherent, grounded, and present in yourself.Insurances
Private Pay
At a glance
Last active
Experienced on It's ComplicatedAbout 1 year on It's Complicated
Offers free 30 minute introductory callThis provider offers a free introductory call
Note from AnastasijaI am a trauma-informed somatic therapist and currently welcoming new clients for both short-term and ongoing therapy.
Usually responds within 2 hours
Next available: Mar 17