Earth Spirit Healing Arts

Somatic Psychotherapy

Somatic Experiencing (traumahealing.org)

Shamanic Healing

Energy Medicine

Sound Healing

Teaching

Healing Pilgrimmages

Amy Nicholson (MS, SEP, NCC, WI-LMT, BCTMB) is a nationally board certified and Wisconsin licensed somatic therapist; Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), shamanic practitioner and educator who specializes in working with pain management, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.

She has held the role of program director and full time faculty member of the Therapeutic Massage Program at Madison College since 2005, where she teaches western massage theory and technique, self-care, communication and the therapeutic relationship, somatic mindfulness practices, business practices, special populations and clinical skills. Her classes are designed utilizing a student-centered interdisciplinary approach. In addition to her work in the massage therapy program, Amy is an adjunct faculty member for the School of International Education at Madison College, where she teaches study abroad courses that combine service learning and the study of indigenous traditional healing practices. She leads groups to Central and South America and currently teaches a course in Andean healing cosmology in Peru.

In her private professional practice, Amy draws upon her over 20 years of experience in body-mind centered modalities and energy medicine practices in order to cater to her client’s individual needs. More specifically, she utilizes Somatic Experiencing (SE), therapeutic bodywork as well as mindfulness practices to stabilize the nervous system with the intention of supporting her clients in experiencing a more aligned, centered and pain-free body. In her shamanic healing sessions, she honors her connection to natural world and the Andean lineage as initiated mesa carrier, integrating shamanic healing techniques, ceremonial prayer and sound in order to facilitate a deepening of healing, connection and spiritual awareness for her clients.

Please contact Amy: [email protected] or 608-628-0300 for information about her courses or to schedule a private session.

She is also available for consulting and for mind-body medicine and embodied shamanic healing workshops for small groups.