Welcome to Healing

I offer safe, compassionate bodywork for people struggling with the effects of physical or emotional trauma.

Perhaps you were in a car crash last year, or you endured abuse as a child, or you've sustained a devastating loss. Your body and spirit show signs of the strain - persistent headaches, nagging injuries, troubled sleep, ongoing anxiety or depression. You've seen your doctor or therapist, but you're still searching for healing.

In my experience, a healing practitioner

• Honors where you are now - acknowledging that everything you have done and are doing are your best efforts to survive and flourish.
• Honors the past - calmly bearing witness to the effects, emotions, and tales of trauma.
• Honors transformation - bringing awareness to tension, and then offering the body forgotten pathways to relaxation and strength.
• Honors your Self - with excellent boundaries and utmost respect.

My bodywork can help you heal from physical and emotional trauma.

My listening hands and attentive presence will help you regain awareness of the blocked places in your body, and gently release the built-up tensions that have helped you cope in the past, but that are adding to your stress in the present. Over time, you'll breathe more freely, sleep more peacefully, and address your life with awareness and grace.

Sonia Connolly, LMT, Reiki Master - helping people heal from trauma since 1999, based in NE Portland, Oregon.

I have experience supporting survivors in recovery from incest, rape, assault, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, ritual abuse, and domestic violence. I also have experience helping people with whiplash injuries, migraines, repetitive strain injuries (RSI), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, CFIDS), irritable bowel syndrome, HIV, cancer, and other forms of chronic pain and illness.

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	"Sonia Connolly is by far the most powerful healer I have experienced. I am always amazed at the feedback and insights she gives after a healing session - be it a direct hands-on or even a distant healing. She has helped me with healing my parents on the other side of the World, in India, and with some patients in L.A. When I am faced with the most difficult situations with any of my patients, she is the only healer I turn to. She is very intuitive and gentle and one feels totally at ease under her healing hands. She has been the reason I kept faith in myself through some of the roughest patches in my life emotionally and spiritually. I am sure every person who gets a treatment from her will confirm what I have said."
	Blessings,             Dilip Panakkal             Reiki Master,             Los Angeles