Trauma-Informed Somatic Bodywork · McKinney, TX

You've done the work.
Your body is still on high alert.

You’ve already done therapy. You’ve already tried massage. Something in you is still holding on — and it will keep holding until it feels safe enough not to.

25+

Years of practice

3 Year

SEP certification

Always

Touch is your call

Seven energy centers. Karen is trained to work every one of them.

Why It Didn’t Stick

Somatic bodywork for women who are feeling stuck, or not fully healed by traditional therapy or massage. The body has to feel safe and listened to in order to finally release.

You're not doing it wrong. You were handed half the tools.

Here is the part nobody says out loud: understanding what happened to you does not discharge it. Insight and release run on different systems, and nearly everything you were offered — therapy, books, good advice — was built for the first one. That isn’t a willpower problem. It’s a safety issue, and you can’t talk yourself into feeling safe.

Talk has a ceiling

Understanding reaches the part of you that thinks. It was never built to reach the part of you that braces.

Relaxing isn't regulating

An hour of pressure on a tight shoulder feels wonderful. It also leaves untouched the thing your nervous system is actually guarding.

You speak fluent trauma

Freeze. Fawn. The body keeps the score. You can name every one of them — and naming the room is not the same as walking out of it.

The all-clear never came

Scanning. Checking exits. Leaving your body when someone gets close. Your body is not betraying you — it is still standing guard, because nobody ever told it the danger passed.

You are not broken.
You are wounded.

And wounds are meant to heal

Perimenopause & What Comes With It

Your body changed the terms without asking you first.

Perimenopause rewrote the rules without consulting you. Sleep stopped working the way it used to. Desire went quiet, or went somewhere you cannot find it. Your body started behaving like a stranger who moved in and rearranged all the furniture. And your patience for pretending everything is fine ran all the way out.

Desire went quiet

Not gone, and not broken. Often it is a nervous system that has been running on alert so long there is nothing left over for wanting.

The body feels unfamiliar

Different shape, different sleep, different energy. Learning to live inside it again is real work, and it is work worth doing.

Your tolerance for nonsense is gone

Treat that as a feature. Something in you stopped being willing to override itself, and that is usually where this begins.

You are finally the priority

Most women arrive here at the point where they are ready to take care of themselves. That is not selfish. That is right on time.

Your Guide

Karen isn't here to fix you. She's here to guide your healing.

Twenty-five years of practice, and three of them spent inside a single certification. Somatic Experiencing® is a three-year training in how trauma settles into the body and what it takes to let go of it — case studies, supervision, and hours spent on her own nervous system before she was cleared to work on anyone else’s. She has since taken Peter Levine’s advanced classes in sexual trauma and pelvic floor dysfunction; he developed the method. This is not massage with softer lighting and a nicer playlist. It is a different discipline, built on one rule: you are in charge of your own body. Every session. Every minute. No exceptions.

“Thank you for telling me what you need.”

“We tend. We do not fix.”

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner — a three-year certification in trauma and the body, including case studies and supervised practice

The only SEP-trained massage therapist in Collin County

25+ years in massage and bodywork, built for women

Specialized training in sexual trauma, autoimmune conditions, and pelvic floor dysfunction connected to abuse

Reiki Master, with training in Somatic Sex Education

Fought for your safety — helped make client draping mandatory in Texas

Trauma-informed is a phrase. This is the training underneath it.

What SEP Means

Three years to earn. Twenty-five to build on.

SEP stands for Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. It is a three-year certification in how a nervous system keeps bracing long after the danger has passed — and what it actually takes to convince it otherwise. Karen has since taken Peter Levine’s advanced work in sexual trauma and pelvic floor dysfunction.

Why she is hard to find

Not a bragging point. A driving distance.

A handful of counselors carry the certification, but they do not work with touch — and touch is the part your body has been waiting for. The next nearest option is a drive into Dallas, on a day your body is already asking a lot of you.

What that means on the table: the person with her hands on your back has spent three years studying the exact thing your body is doing right now.

What Actually Happens

How the body lets go.

Your nervous system does not speak in words. It speaks in jaw, breath, gut and grip, and it responds to being met there rather than reasoned with. So the work moves in a sequence, and it does not skip steps.

The body feels safe

Consent-led, clothes on, entirely at your say-so. Safety isn’t the good manners around the work. It’s the mechanism.

The body lets go

What has been clenched for a decade finally gets permission to stop. This is the real work, and it happens physically.

Your voice comes back

The no. The hell yes. The boundaries you’ve been outsourcing. They turn up again once your body stops guarding the door.

How to Start

Three steps. You control all three.

Step 01

Pick your session

Choose the work that meets you where you actually are — not where you assumed you’d be by now.

Step 02

Claim your time

Take a slot that fits your life. You have rearranged enough of it around everybody else.

Step 03

Tell us your terms

A short intake, so Karen knows your boundaries before you ever open the door.

You can stop at any step, including this one.

The Work

Ways to begin.

Signature · Trauma Healing

Somatic Experiencing Bodywork

For bracing that outlasted whatever caused it. Nervous-system work, clothing on, entirely at your direction.

From $200

Signature · Trauma Healing

Somatic Experiencing Bodywork

For bracing that outlasted whatever caused it. Nervous-system work, clothing on, entirely at your direction.

From $200

Signature · Trauma Healing

Somatic Experiencing Bodywork

For bracing that outlasted whatever caused it. Nervous-system work, clothing on, entirely at your direction.

From $200

What This Is For

Come back to your body.

What you have been carrying

Closed off

Made small

Fitting in

Trapped in your body

→

↓

What is yours to claim

Your no

Your hell yes

Your boundaries

Your body, your terms

Referred By Clinicians

“There are wounds that words cannot touch. Karen is a master practitioner in the physical and emotional body.”

Renae Cobb · Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, Jungian Analyst, IAAP

What Clients Say

Ten years of five stars.

A decade of reviews from people who came in braced and left lighter.

★★★★★

Stacy Tritt

My first session at Mind Your Body was a very positive experience. Karen was compassionate, knowledgeable, and created a safe environment to explore difficult experiences. The session helped me better understand how my body holds stress and emotions, and I experienced a meaningful emotional release. I’m grateful for the experience and look forward to continuing the work.

★★★★★

Loralie Mathews

I’ve been coming here for several years. Karen is an amazing certified Somatic practitioner and she has helped me feel safe in my body and process trauma in a supportive atmosphere. She has great recommendations and resources to share and I would highly recommend her for a somatic session or massage.

★★★★★

Carol Brown

The best there is! Karen has such a power of healing.

★★★★★

Tamarah Wild

I had immediate results! Range of motion on my neck was increased. And the pain in my leg was reduced by 75%. Amazing. So grateful!

★★★★★

Trey Thorsen

Karen is a magician! I came in with pain and she makes it magically disappear! She is an expert at her craft.

This is your season.

Not sure where to start? Five questions, about a minute, and no one but you sees the answers.

You've done the work. Your body is still on high alert.

You're not doing it wrong. You were handed half the tools.

You are not broken. You are wounded.

Your body changed the terms without asking you first.

Karen isn't here to fix you. She's here to guide your healing.

Three years to earn. Twenty-five to build on.

How the body lets go.

Three steps. You control all three.

Ways to begin.

Come back to your body.

“There are wounds that words cannot touch. Karen is a master practitioner in the physical and emotional body.”

Ten years of five stars.

This is your season.

You've done the work.
Your body is still on high alert.

You are not broken.
You are wounded.