Somatic Experiencing®
Student Sessions
Deepen your SE practice from the inside out.
Learning Somatic Experiencing® is not only an intellectual process, but an embodied one.
The SE training invites us to slow down, listen deeply, and develop a relationship with the language of our own physiology. Personal sessions are a place to experience the work from the inside, deepen your capacity, and get support with your own trauma material.
As an approved Somatic Experiencing® Personal Session Provider, I offer sessions for Beginning Level students seeking to fulfill their training requirements and support their own embodied learning process.
My approach:
My style as a practitioner integrates:
Somatic Experiencing® (I am currently assisting Debra Clydesdale)
TCTSY (trauma-sensitive yoga) + other trauma-informed embodiment practices
Expressive Arts (Intuitive painting + authentic movement)
Over a decade as a pracititioner supporting sensitive nervous systems + over 2 decades as an SE client myself
Together we will follow your system’s natural movement toward regulation, connection, expression, and aliveness.
Whether you are brand new to SE or deepening a lifelong relationship with your body, these sessions offer space to receive the same compassionate curiosity you bring to your clients.
Details:
✨ Approved for Beginning Level SE™ students
✨ You’ll receive a signed session log after each session that counts towards your SEP requirements
✨ Sessions available online + in-person in Oakland, California
✨ In-person sessions may include SE touch work when appropriate and consented to
Special SE student rate:
🌿 $190 / 60-minute session (regular rate $200)
🌿 $225 / 75-minute session (regular rate $250)
Note: 60-minute sessions are standard and available directly through my calendar. If you want to work with material like anesthesia or medical trauma, or you know that your system often benefits from additional spaciousness, a slower pace, or more time for exploration and integration, 75-minute sessions are also available.
Please email hello@kelseymaeve.com to schedule a 75-minute extended session.
Hey, I’m Kelsey Maeve, SEP
I’m a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, embodiment facilitator, and creative guide with over a decade of experience supporting sensitive nervous systems through somatic healing, trauma resolution, and embodied practice.
My relationship with SE began long before I became a practitioner. I first experienced this work as a client and spent over 20 years receiving Somatic Experiencing sessions from ages 7–27 before completing my own SEP certification.
Because I began so young, SE became a profound teacher and companion throughout some of the most formative years of my life. It supported me through childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, helping me learn how to listen to my body, honor my experience, and navigate what it means to be human in a nervous system
Because of this, I hold a deep respect for the vulnerability, courage, and transformation that can happen when we allow ourselves to be supported in this way.
I know firsthand that SE is not simply something we study intellectually. It is something we practice, receive, and embody.
Today, alongside my private practice, I have the joy of supporting SE students through assisting trainings. I currently assist with Debra Clydesdale’s cohorts both in-person in Sacramento and online, and I love witnessing the unique ways this work comes alive in each learning environment.
My approach is warm, relational, creative, and deeply respectful of your system’s innate capacity for healing and integration.
Whether you are completing required personal sessions, exploring your own patterns through an SE lens, or simply wanting a supportive space to deepen your relationship with this work, I would be honored to accompany you.
Curious if we’re a good fit?
Choosing someone to support your SE journey is personal.
If you’d like to connect, ask questions, and get a felt sense of whether working together feels supportive, you’re welcome to schedule a complimentary consultation call below.
Client Testimonials:
“The sessions with Kelsey felt so good for my soul and nervous system. I can’t recommend her enough.”
“Working with Kelsey helped me create energetic coherence in my body, and a solid foundation in my life.”
"After encountering several mediocre therapists, I am so grateful to work with someone as attuned and grounded as Kelsey. She creates a space that feels safe, warm, and creative, and I deeply appreciate her extensive skill in Somatic Experiencing and trauma healing work. I highly recommend working with her!"
"Before working with Kelsey, I struggled with anxiety and freeze states from emotional trauma. Now, I feel more empowered in my embodied safety, I trust myself more, and I am able to take aligned actions with less anxiety and more self-validation."
“Through our 1-1 sessions, I learned to honor the true needs of my body and soul. I learned to expand into feeling my capacity, freedom, heart, and clarity in an embodied way.”
“My impulse is to go hard on my body and similar with my body care. I’m always going after that deep deep tissue. But there are other ways to heal. With soft touch, breathing, and attention, Kelsey helped me relieve tension in a gentler way. And she held such caring space for the memories and feelings caught in my body. I leave feeling lighter and more spacious. An embodied lesson in the power of soft, gentle attention to heal.”
- William
“I am more aware of how things effect me at the body level which helps me set aligned boundaries. I was struggling with fully letting go of the emotional trauma I had experienced 10 years ago & hoping to find closure and release. Nothing had actually helped me complete the trauma this person had caused. Working with Kelsey helped me uncover realizations about myself that never would have come up if I wasn't doing this work. I felt neutral and very at peace when engaging with what used to be a trigger and that was an amazing feeling. “
- Taylor
"I have learned how to tap into the wisdom of my body in such a deep and profound way. Kelsey has taught me and supported me in deepening my capacity to regulate my nervous system by attuning to the sensations in my body and working with these to tap into my intuition, explore challenges, resolve old emotional wounds, and heal my nervous system. Through working with Kelsey, I now have body-based strategies that feel very intuitive and accessible to draw upon, especially when I feel emotionally triggered, so that I can bring my nervous system back to regulation.”
-Adrienne Partridge, Ph.D.