Individual Consultations

I offer individual consultations on Mondays and Tuesdays.

The cost is $175 for a one-hour consultation which takes place over Zoom, an online conferencing platform. Please click the link below to see my current availability.

Appointments should show in your local time zone, however, you can double-check this, and change it if needed, by looking beside the date/time heading to see which time zone is specified.

NOTE: I am no longer offering personal SE sessions on Zoom as this part of my practice is full.

Once you select your desired time, you will be prompted to fill in your contact information and then click the link to complete the payment online via credit card.

Your appointment confirmation email will include a link for Zoom, the online video conferencing platform that we will use for your session. We can also meet by phone if you prefer.

Cancellation Policy

I have a 24-hour cancellation policy. This means that if you have a session at 11 am you must cancel by 11 am the day before so that I have time to schedule another consultation. If you miss a consultation session, you agree that you will pay for the hour. 

Sessions may be canceled or rescheduled at least 24 hours in advance using the link in the appointment confirmation email. Should you chose not to reschedule, I will refund your payment minus a $5 per session digital transaction fee. 

You will not be asked to pay for a true emergency (i.e., an unforeseen medical issue that needs immediate attention or a serious illness you could not have foreseen causing challenges the day before).  If I miss a session, I will provide your next consultation for free.

Abi’s Individual Consultations fill up almost immediately when they are released, and at this time, she does not have any openings. Please watch the newsletter for announcements when new dates are added.

Signing session logs

Each individual consultation with me counts towards your SEP certificate requirements of Individual Case Consultation with an Institute faculty member.

Following your individual session, I will send you an email confirming your attendance. 

This email can be submitted to SEI with your other log sheet requirements for completion of the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner criteria.

What to expect

SE Consultation is a necessary and enriching aspect of your SE training.  It will allow time for you to ask personalized questions as well as help you integrate SE work into your specific practice. 

I am always willing to explore topics that would be most supportive of your learning.  For example, you may have general conceptual questions about the SE curriculum and how it appears in your practice, want to present an individual case, or discuss issues related to somatic resonance and somatic countertransference that would be useful to explore.

You will be asked to share a brief (and confidential) description of your client and his, her, or their background (around 5-10 minutes depending on the complexity of their history and presentation). If you have been through the intermediate training think about what “categories” of trauma they might fit into.

Also, let me know what SE interventions you have tried and what the outcome was. I may ask you to share what kinds of bodily sensations or other elements of SIBAM you have been tracking while working with them.

Some question we might explore together:

  • What kinds of bodily sensations or other elements of SIBAM you have been tracking?

  • At baseline where is your client’s nervous system?

  • Are they regulated, sympathetically charged, or shut down?

  • Do they exhibit fight, fight, and freeze in their bodies?

  • How do they describe their physiological state?

  • How you do perceive their physiological states in their bodies?

  • Have you been able to facilitate pendulation?

  • How have you used SE with them successfully?

  • Where and how do they continue to be dysregulated?

Goals

I would like to co-create goals with you.  For example, some goals that many SE students have are: creating a better clinical gestalt of SE, learning how to apply general SE concepts to specific cases, and the movement toward the “art” of the work that seamlessly begins to blend with your professional field.