Catherine Taye Slattery

Catherine Taye Slattery

I’ve been helping people feel better with Rolfing for over 25 years. Most of my clients come in with layers of injury, tension, effort, strain and stress—the accumulation of the body’s efforts to support movement and protect from harm, reinforced in the tissues. My hands are tremendously skilled at easing these complex patterns of bracing, contraction and compensation in people’s bodies.

With respectful hands-on soft tissue work we work to improve, restore, or discover for the first time, the physical capableness, comfort and agency that allows you do what you need to do or love to do. What does Rolfing feel like?  More on that here. It might be different than you think!

Rolfing reliably leads to positive and pleasant body experiences, including lightness, spaciousness, fluidity, balance, support, and relief, and feeling grounded, calm, vitally alive, relaxed, upright, and connected.The process can include lasting improvements like less pain, tension and stiffness, ease of movement, easy good posture, access to calm, clear, joyful and optimistic mental and emotional states, more body connection and self-awareness, a sense of flow and momentum in life.

Rolfing and SE go together nicely! On its own, Rolfing helps with trauma. Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score) credits Rolfing ("the most helpful thing for me") with freeing his body from early experiences of being a "sickly child", born into a war zone. And its true—Rolfing helps bodies process past experiences, and open to new possibilities.

And Somatic Experiencing gives us even more ways to help people heal from trauma. It lets us do work with touch, but without soft tissue mobilization, if need be, and it lets us skillfully work with very sensitive areas, or places that are averse to being touched. It allows us to be intentional about what trauma we choose to explore in a session. And it helps us work with tensions that are very current in the body's strategies--ones that don't respond to soft tissue work, or that do respond, but keep reverting afterwards.

Think of me as a body whisperer, helping with body difficulties, big and small, and think of me as a somatic traumaworker, helping nervous systems mend from difficult experiences. I’ve seen a lot of people get a lot better, and I have a lot of confidence in the body's capacity for healing. It would be a privilege to work with you too. I'm here for you!

Specialties

• Anxiety Disorders
• Chronic Illness
• Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia
• Complex PTSD
• Developmental Trauma
• Grief and Loss
• Medical Procedure Trauma
• Motor Vehicle Collisions
• Pregnancy/Prenatal/Postpartum
• Birth Trauma
• Self-Esteem
• Sleep/Insomnia
• Spirituality
• Womens’ Issues