A Body-Based Approach
to Wholeness
Develop Body
Consciousness
Learn How to Regulate
Your Nervous System
Find Safety Through
Sustaining Emotions
Process Emotions &
Cultivate Inner Safety
What Somatic Therapy
Can Help You With
Somatic therapy is based on the understanding that the body holds information—information that we often can't remember with our minds. By learning to be with what's happening inside us and supporting all parts of ourselves, we begin to understand how our nervous system intelligently adapted to stress and dysfunctional environments. This awareness often creates the foundation for integrating painful experiences and memories.
The method ❊
Creating Space To Feel
Somatic therapy can help us process lived experiences that the mind often doesn't have access to and that insight alone can't touch. Through creating space to feel, to sense, and to notice what's alive underneath thought, we begin to access the emotions and impulses that were once interrupted or held back in order to survive. As the body is given the space to complete what it couldn't at the time, the nervous system gradually integrates difficult life experiences and reconnects us with parts of ourselves that had to split off in order to survive.
01Nervous System Regulation
Somatic therapy can be a great support in reconnecting us with our body's natural capacity to regulate, release, and restore balance. It can help our nervous system unwind the patterns that keep us in survival states such as stress, fight, freeze, shutdown, or collapse.
By creating space for what's happening underneath our thoughts, we slowly begin to meet life, ourselves, and others with more presence, connection, and self-trust, even in periods of distress.
02Feeling Ourselves, Meeting Others Authentically
What trauma very often does is disconnect us from our authentic selves through intelligent survival patterns.
In somatic sessions, we reconnect with our capacity to sense ourselves more deeply, and through this strengthen our capacity to be in authentic relationship with others and with the world. The more we can stay present with what's happening inside our bodies and support ourselves in it, the more space we create for others to do the same.
In that way, somatic therapy helps us build the inner capacity for connection to become less about performing and more about meeting another person from our authentic experience and needs—from a grounded place, staying connected to what's alive within us.
03This Is How You Can
Work With Me
Here’s how we can work together — through somatic processes that create space for awareness, regulation, and real integration.
Single Session 60Min
1,500 MXN Pesos
Somatic Container of 5 Sessions à 60Min
6,500 MXN Pesos
Somatic Container of 10 Sessions à 60Min 11,000 MXN Pesos
About me
My name is Karina Schoenberger. I was born in Kazakhstan and grew up in Berlin, Germany.
Due to a very difficult upbringing, and its own form of complex trauma, I found my way into more than a decade of trauma therapy and, with it, the desire and passion to support others on this path.
In order to survive, I learned from a very young age how to adapt and fit in – and somewhere along the way, I lost touch with my authenticity. On my path toward wholeness, I discovered that it was the somatic approach that brought me closer to trusting myself again, helped me with my trauma symptoms, and allowed me to reconnect with my intuition.
Somatic bodywork became my grounding in dark seasons, helping me learn to love the parts of myself I once felt ashamed of and had cast out. After many years of somatic trauma therapy, my path naturally led me to becoming a practitioner myself.
Today, I offer 1:1 somatic therapy sessions in person in Tulum, Mexico, and online worldwide in German, English, and Spanish on Zoom. I also facilitate Somatic Workshops and a Somatic Movement Laboratory.
I'm currently in a three-year training with Body Mind Movement Mexico, based on Body-Mind Centering®, founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, to become a somatic educator – a path that deepens my understanding of how the body, mind, and nervous system shape our lived experience in everyday life.
Alongside this, I've completed complementary studies in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and Parts Work with The Embodiment Lab, which continue to inform my trauma-sensitive approach.
Most of all, my work is rooted in my own process: over ten years of cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic trauma therapy, Jungian psychoanalysis, IFS, Gestalt therapy, and family constellation work that gradually helped me integrate the fragmented parts of myself that talking alone could never reach.
I am deeply passionate about my work and dedicated to my clients and their processes. It's these personal experiences that continue to shape how I hold space – with curiosity, deep respect, and an ongoing trust in the human capacity to restore wholeness.
Join my Weekly Somatic Movement Lab
Only
10
Spots
Due to my travels, the Somatic Laboratory is paused until October 2026.
The somatic movement lab is an embodied practice of returning to the body and honoring sensation without the need to perform or fix. Through guided prompts, we explore breath, impulse, and subtle movement in ways that support authentic expression and self-regulation. Each class unfolds uniquely, allowing every body to move differently while cultivating awareness, presence, and agency. The focus is on listening from within –creating room for emotion, curiosity, and embodied truth to lead the way.
Get In Touch
I always begin with a free 15-minute call. It’s a space for us to get to know each other, talk about what's bringing you here, and explore whether and how I can support you.
It also gives you a sense of how I work and whether it feels like the right fit.
I am looking forward to meet you and hear about your story!
FAQs
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Each session is guided by what you bring that day and what you want to work on. Through conversation, gentle awareness practices, movement, or touch (when appropriate and agreed upon), we explore sensations, patterns, memories and impulses that help your system regulate and integrate. There’s never a fixed script, the process unfolds from your experience.
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Not necessarily. While talking can helo with context, somatic work often focuses on what’s happening right now in your body. You’re always invited to share as much or as little as feels right and I will not push you into sharing anything you don’t feel comfortable with. The body often leads the way without needing detailed stories or memories.
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Wear something comfortable that allows you to move and breathe easily. You don’t need to prepare anything, you can just come with anything you bring that day. The work often begins with noticing what’s present and alive in the session.
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Somatic therapy includes the body as an active part of the healing process. Instead of analyzing experiences only with the mind, we use sensation, movement, and awareness to access patterns held beneath thought. This helps integrate insights on a nervous-system level, where lasting change occurs.
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Sometimes, yes — but only if it feels supportive and you give clear consent. I have clients that I touch every sessions and others that I have never touched. There is no right or wrong, it depends on you, your needs, your history and what’s working for you.
If used, then touch in somatic bodywork is always used with awareness, boundaries and conscent, as a way to bring attention, grounding, or support to certain areas of the body. Many sessions work entirely without touch and are equally effective.