Anastasija Katcyna
Body Counsellor & Somatic Coach
Verified by It's Complicated
Available for new clients
A space for those who are exhausted, disconnected, stuck or tired. Together, we work with the body to ease tension, process stress and create a sense of safety from within
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At a glance
€80-190 per session
Columbus, United StatesAvailable online onlyLast active
Experienced on It's ComplicatedOver 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 4 hours
About me
Hi, I’m Anastasija, a Registered Somatic Therapist and Educator trained in Somatic Experiencing™, 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, internal pressure and depression, 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.
Today, I support others in building a more grounded, regulated and honest relationship with themselves.
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 path into this work is both professional and personal - after years of living with chronic anxiety, internal pressure and depression, 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.
Today, I support others in building a more grounded, regulated and honest relationship with themselves.
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.
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 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 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 practiceOver 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
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
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
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.Individual Session
€80 • 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.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 choiceInsurances
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At a glance
€80-190 per session
Columbus, United StatesAvailable online onlyLast active
Experienced on It's ComplicatedOver 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 4 hours
Next available: May 26