About Megan
Megan Nigro, MA, CMT, SEP
Integrative Relational Somatic Therapy
Trauma Resolution - Nervous System Regulation
Megan is a relational somatic therapist who comes from a bodywork lineage. Her somatic approach is an educational and therapeutic blend of nervous system support, attachment theory, and mindfulness.
Megan holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MA in Social Justice and Community Organizing from Prescott College, and an MA in Buddhist Counseling from The University of Hong Kong.
Therapeutically, Megan is informed most by Dr. Peter Levine's trauma resolution model of Somatic Experiencing®, Kathy Kain's Somatic [Touch] Practice, and Dr. Stephen Terrell's Somatic Attachment and Developmental Trauma Healing. These approaches support her growing ability to be with, recognize, and attend to the organic processes unfolding within each of us.
Megan's work remains tethered to our collective social context. Grounded in healing justice, it draws from her ongoing commitment to anti-racism work and regenerative earth healing. She supports clients' growing capacity to make change within themselves and the world through experiential, educational, and therapeutic exploration.
Megan is a Senior Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute Assistant and an approved Advanced Session and Consultation Provider.
Healing is a personal, courageous, and liberating endeavor that matters deeply to our world.
Your healing work with Megan can vary depending on your needs and aspirations. She offers ongoing somatic therapy sessions aimed at nervous system regulation to reduce and potentially resolve manifest symptoms of stress physiology that are a result of overwhelm/ trauma/developmental trauma. She also works with deepening self-exploration, discovery and integration, and short-term issue-focused support.
Your somatic healing may play a central role in your process or serve as a compliment to work with which you're already engaged medically, psychotherapeutically, or spiritually.
Megan is available to lead interactive presentations and experiential groups interested in developing somatic awareness of nervous system regulation and educating on its influences on our overall health, wellness, and well-being.
A note from Megan
I am an able-bodied, white, cis-gendered woman. I grew up on the extraordinary unceded Tlingit lands of rural southeast Alaska and am currently living in the transitional lands of Hong Kong.
Healing our trauma empowers us. It does this by reuniting us with the immense biological power that enabled our survival. As we come back into a relationship with our sensate selves, we gain access to our whole being. It is from here that we live truly, that we interact and engage fully with our world. From this whole self, we can take sustainable action for change in our communities and build a healthy society.
I am committed to social justice, and I consider healing work's true purpose to bring people into relationships with themselves in a way that enables their needed unique action and relationship with their community and our world. We are part of a collective experience that we shape daily. Attending to our health and well-being through a nervous system regulation approach allows us access to the vitality of our biological nature.
I'm deeply honored and grateful to support someone in their courageous and radical act of healing. I do not shy away from supporting the client's unique exploration of how patriarchy, white supremacy, and globalized neo-liberal capitalism have impacted each of us. Self-exploration, growth, and development are not for the faint-hearted but for the inspired warriors of our time. Daily, I am both moved and humbled by the brave hearts and spirit of the people I work with. And I am continually awed by the extraordinary resilience of the innate healing capacity deeply seeded within every one of us.