Kesha Fikes

SE™ INTERNATIONAL PRACTITIONER DIRECTORY

Kesha Fikes

Somatic Therapist, Social Praxis Facilitator & Professor of Somatic Psychology

Offering Global Virtual Support

Warm Greetings: Welcome to my practice.

My approach is somatic and psycho-political. It is informed by my previous research background in anthropology, as well as trauma-informed, somatic training in the following: Kathy’s Kain’s Touch Therapy practice; sensorial attunement practices from the Danis Bois Method (Perceptual Psychoeducation), and Somatic Experiencing®. This cumulative approach offers a framework for sensing into where a person or group feels unmet, overwhelmed, or numbed, be it at the level of one’s narrative descriptions of self, community, and/or the world, or via the ways in which one’s body has adapted to stress and injustices in the environment, past or present. Consults and sessions are held with deep relational listening: there are pauses at intervals to choicefully track unfamiliar and unmet emotional and physical states that inhibit and support spacious awareness of one’s or a community’s immediate reality, needs, and potential. Ultimately, this is about one’s physiology and soma supporting capacity to explore embodied agency, relationally, in an unrepaired world.

My approach engages the whole person, meaning equal attention is given to individual/familial experiences and the broader historical-political worlds in which individual/familial/communal experiences are lived existentially, interpersonally, collectively, institutionally, and intergenerationally. ‘Historical-political worlds’ refers to unpresenced and unrepaired historical-political events and the current, lived experiences of their aftermaths: imperial conquest; violent land dispossession; slavery/enslavement; colonialism; genocide; forced and voluntary migrations and refugee phenomena; indenturement; enforcements of cis-heteropatriarchy and binary gender normatively; cultural, institutional, and national practices of racism/racialization and ethnicization; ability normatively; loss of citizenship and community from geopolitical border shifting; war and environmental crises; and more. The intention is to not separate, dehistoricize, or hierarchize individual/familial/communal experiences from unrepaired political processes and thus the material and psychic terrains in which current life is lived; the aim is to understand how they cumulatively impact contemporary experiences of daily existence.

I work with individuals, communities, and organizations who are invested in embodied processes that integrate the personal and the political.