Anastasija Katcyna
Body Counsellor & Somatic Coach
I currently have two openings for ongoing somatic therapy, as well as short-term work focused on a therapeutic goal, specific challenge, life transition or area of growth.
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About me
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 vitality & safety from within.
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.
Movement|Dance Therapy uses motion as a therapeutic tool - to access and process what's held in the body, to shift patterns that repeat in relationships, behavior, and nervous system response. Through guided and free movement, we follow sensation to where emotion lives before language. For nervous system regulation, trauma, life transitions, identity and any place where talking has reached its limit.
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®, Movement Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, 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
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
Movement|Dance Therapy
Individual Session
Nervous System Reset: 3 sessions
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