Choice before technique
You decide what to share, what support you want, and whether touch is included. An invitation can always be declined without explanation.
Trauma-informed somatic support · Dallas, Texas
Specialized support for healing what the body has carried.
Aho specializes in trauma-focused somatic and integration work for people healing from sexual trauma, childhood experiences, medical trauma, relationship harm, and other experiences that continue to shape the body, emotions, identity, and sense of safety.
Understanding trauma-informed care
We work with trauma through the body, insight, expression, and integration.
Trauma can affect more than the story we remember. The body may continue to brace, disconnect, scan for danger, avoid certain kinds of contact, or struggle to rest even when the immediate experience is over. These responses are not failures. They are often intelligent ways the system learned to protect you.
Wesley and Paloma specialize in helping clients explore these patterns through Transpersonal Somatic Therapy®, somatic bodywork, guided emotional exploration, therapeutic touch when desired, breath, sound, energetic support, insight, and integration. The work can engage trauma directly without requiring you to relive every experience or force a particular outcome.
Trauma-informed practice recognizes that safety cannot be assumed or demanded. It is built through transparency, choice, collaboration, boundaries, and respect for your pace. You do not need a diagnosis to seek support or to ask for clear consent, slower pacing, and a more collaborative experience.
Reasons people seek support
You can begin with what is present now.
People arrive with many histories. You choose the language you use, how much you share, and whether the past is discussed at all.
- Sexual trauma or unwanted touch
- Childhood trauma, neglect, or difficult family experiences
- Relationship harm, betrayal, or loss of trust
- Medical trauma or feeling powerless during care
- Grief, major transitions, or prolonged emotional stress
- Feeling guarded, disconnected, frozen, or unable to fully settle
Experiencing any of these does not mean one particular service is appropriate for everyone. Current safety, medical needs, mental-health symptoms, and personal readiness all matter.
What trauma-informed means at Aho
Safety is practiced through choice.
Consent that continues
Consent is not a one-time form. We check in, explain what we are doing, and welcome changes in pressure, positioning, pacing, or direction.
Pacing without pressure
There is no requirement to remember, retell, release, cry, or reach a breakthrough. Quiet, rest, and stopping are valid choices.
Your experience belongs to you
We do not diagnose, recover memories, impose spiritual explanations, or tell you what a sensation must mean. You remain the authority on your experience.
Two ways to begin
Choose the amount of conversation and bodywork that feels right.
Transpersonal Somatic Therapy®
Awareness, exploration, optional touch, and integration.
TST supports people who understand their patterns but still feel guarded, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in familiar responses. A session can combine grounded conversation, present-moment body awareness, breath, sound, emotional processing, optional therapeutic touch, Reiki, stillness, and reflection.
The work can help bring unconscious protective patterns into awareness, restore a felt sense of choice, create space for held emotion and expression, and connect new insight with an embodied experience. Nothing has to happen on command, and healing is never measured by how dramatic a session appears.
Somatic Regulation & Release™
Slower bodywork with less need for verbal processing.
Somatic Regulation & Release may fit when you want a quieter trauma-focused experience centered on grounding, supportive positioning, body awareness, gently paced touch, and helping the system move out of persistent guarding or activation. Pressure, location, clothing, draping, and areas to avoid are discussed before beginning.
The session creates conditions in which tension, emotion, or protective holding may begin to shift without being forced. Release can be physical, emotional, subtle, or simply a clearer sense of boundary and presence. Your cues determine the pace.
Touch, clothing, and boundaries
Your “no,” “not yet,” and “stop” are complete answers.
Touch is never assumed. Before hands-on work, we discuss what is proposed, why it may be useful, clothing and draping options, areas you welcome or do not welcome contact, and how you prefer us to check in. You may remain clothed, request hands-off support, change positioning, pause, or end the session.
Consent can change from moment to moment. Agreeing to one technique or area does not imply agreement to anything else. Freezing, becoming quiet, or feeling uncertain is not treated as consent; we slow down and reorient to your choices.
Specialized trauma support, clearly defined
Trauma work can be powerful without pretending every profession has the same role.
Aho Healing Arts specializes in somatic trauma work, emotional insight, and embodied integration. We work directly with people healing from trauma and with the protective patterns, disconnection, tension, emotion, meaning, and identity shifts that can remain in the body and daily life.
Our role is complementary and nonclinical. We do not diagnose mental-health conditions, provide psychotherapy, prescribe medication, offer crisis care, or replace medical treatment. We also do not manufacture memories or present an interpretation as unquestionable truth.
Many clients use this work alongside a trauma therapist, physician, physical therapist, or other licensed professional. Clinical care is especially important when symptoms are severe, safety is uncertain, daily functioning is significantly affected, or diagnosis and treatment are needed. Seek immediate local emergency or crisis support if there is a risk of harm to yourself or someone else.
Meet Wesley and Paloma and review their qualifications →Frequently asked questions
Before choosing a session.
If you are unsure which approach fits, text or call 469-693-4589 before booking.
Do I have to talk about what happened?
No. You control what you share. Sessions can focus on present-day sensations, boundaries, comfort, and resources without describing past experiences in detail.
Is touch required?
No. Touch is optional and discussed before it is used. Hands-off practices, conversation, breath, grounding, sound, and quiet reflection may be used instead. You can change or withdraw consent at any time.
Will I be asked to relive trauma or recover memories?
No. Aho does not use forced exposure, attempt to recover memories, or ask clients to relive overwhelming events. The work stays oriented to present choice, capacity, and awareness.
Is this trauma therapy?
It is specialized trauma-focused somatic and integration support, but it is not psychotherapy or licensed mental-health treatment. TST and somatic bodywork can be used alongside clinical trauma care when appropriate.
Which session should I choose?
TST may fit when you want conversation, body awareness, optional touch, emotional exploration, and integration in one experience. Somatic Regulation & Release may fit when you want quieter, slower bodywork with less verbal processing. You are welcome to text us before booking.
Begin with a conversation
You are allowed to move slowly.
Choose a private TST appointment, or text us before booking if you want to discuss comfort, touch, boundaries, or which session may be the better fit.