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You tried everything,but something's still missing...

Your body! You can’t think your way out of trauma. Your body remembers.It’s not about the memory in your story but the memory in your bones.

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My job is to help you return to the natural rhythm of your nervous system and integrate your physiology in the healing process.

Here is how I work with my clients

Respecting Your Capacity

Overwhelming you with heavy experiences in therapy is both unsustainable and ineffective. That’s why we go as far as your capacity supports and as fast as your body allows. Safety is primary in my work.

Collaborative Curiosity

Don’t know where to start? It’s not as important as you think. I will meet you where you are, with compassion and co-regulation. I don’t come from a place of all-knowing but rather a place of curiosity.

Embodied Process

Stuck in your head? You are done analyzing your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. In this process, we engage your whole system to integrate your experiences on a deeper level.

How it Works

Are you curious to explore your body's healing potential?

Start with a short consult call to share your needs and get all your questions answered.

Next, complete your intake form for the first session to set your therapy intentions.

Onwards, experience your nervous system shifting from one session to the next.

What I am specialized in..

I am certified and specialized in many types of traumas, syndromes, and conditions. In my work I focus on both the injury and the capacity. What your body is holding and what it is longing for. In my special methodology of work that goes from trauma, to relief, to growth and expansion.

Depression

Being stuck, feeling flat, or not interested at all, is depression. Depression an internal system slowing down because of too much overwhelm. Together, we listen to your body and give it the space to release that internal pressure, gently connecting again to what sparks aliveness, joy, and energy in your life.

Anxiety

Racing thoughts, tight chest, and that constant alertness and watching out for anything that might be wrong. It is a state of high activation in the nervous system. Through body-based practices, we slowly give the nervous system the space to process and sense safety again.

PTSD

Some experiences would leave you stuck in the survival mode, with a jumpy, frozen, or constantly vigilant for danger. PTSD isn't about what happened, but about what is happening in your body because of what happened. My work offers your body a way to complete what was not finished at the time of the traumatic event.

Birthing Trauma

Bringing a child into the world is sacred, but even a 'successful' birth can feel overwhelming, rushed, or unsupported, while leaving lasting scars that affect bonding. Together, we create space to honor your story and experience, so you can heal and reconnect with your child from a place of safety, not stress.

Pre&Perinatal trauma

Even before our birth, during pregnancy, birth, and our early months on earth, you might not remember them, but your body does. In our work, we gently uncover those deep, early patterns that might have contributed to your existential struggles.

Shock Trauma

Sudden events like accidents, surgeries, or natural disasters can rightfully alert your system, but you might not be able to return to safety again. We would work together to help your system sense safety, process the event to a closure, and return to the here and now.

Spiritual Trauma

Being harmed in the name of God or spirituality can leave a deep wound. One that shakes your sense of meaning and connection. It creates a quiet ache inside. As a Middle Eastern Muslim, I understand the cultural and spiritual weight of this pain. In our work, I hold space for your grief and support you in gently rebuilding what was lost.

Developmental Trauma

When early caregivers couldn't meet our emotional needs, we would adapt in ways that shape our lives and leave us struggling with patterns with little explanation. In our work together we support the connection to all your parts, even the ones you disconnected with to survive.

Transgenerational Trauma

Some traumas didn't begin with you. Patterns, fears, or pain with no way to understand their roots might have been passed down through your family tree. You don't have to carry them, and your body knows what is ready to be let go.

ICU & Ventilator Trauma

Our bodies perceive medical procedures in a way that is not logical, but profound enough to leave a physio-psychological scar. Sedation, intubation, and immobilization can leave a deep sense of helplessness in the body. Even if you don't remember much, your body does. Through our work, you can gain agency and connection.

Long Covid & Post-Viral Trauma

When illness lingers, leaving physical and emotional traces, it often makes you feel stuck in your body. The virus's attack and how your body brilliantly fought it might continue long after you are cured. In our work together, we give your body a chance to get back into coherence.

Medical Trauma

Being in medical settings where you felt unheard, touched without consent, or overwhelmed can profoundly affect how safe you feel in your body. It doesn't only affect how you feel but also might hinder your capability to care for your physical health. In our work we rebuild this trust and agency through your body and with other bodies too.

Sexual Trauma

In sexual trauma events, our bodies do what it needs to survive. Whether the experience was recent or long ago, somatic healing offers a tender path back to safety, agency, and a path to feeling safe again.

FGM Treatment

It is a profound trauma with delicate layers of trauma. The pain, silence, and cultural complexity make it one of the missions I work for in my life. I hold this work with the deepest care and respect for the story, the body, and the right to wholeness.

Financial Trauma

Chronic scarcity, instability, and fear of money can teach you to deal with money with fear. While money is an essential resource for navigating life, satisfying your needs, and luxuries, having fear around it can hinder your emotional and career growth. Through our work together, we soften that grip and rebuild that sense of internal safety, no matter your financial state.

High-Control-Group Trauma

A cult, a controlling family, or dogmatic environment .. they all can make you feel that leaving is both freeing and disorienting. Our work together helps you rebuild your sense of self, autonomy, and trust in your inner truth.

Relational Trauma

If intimacy feels unsafe, or you feel that you lose yourself in relationships, it might be a result of early or repeated relational injuries. Together, we create a felt sense of safety and connection.

Vaginismus & Dyspareunia

Pain and tightness are not voluntary or just in your head. Your body may be holding fear, unresolved trauma, or an unrealistic perspective about sex and sexuality. I offer a slow and respectful space to explore this without pressure, always at your own pace, and in collaboration with your partner's support and education.

Chronic Pain & Fibromayalgia

When pain becomes a part of daily life, it can be exhausting, as if you start the day with a battery half full. While somatic therapy doesn't cure illness, we can uncover how your body is trying to protect you, and how to reconnect with a more sense of ease and less bodily stress.

Expanded Productivity

Hustle culture have left a whole generation with physical and psychological symptoms. Expanding your productivity and capacity doesn't have to be at the cost of your health and ability to rest and connect. From a nourished, cared-for nervous system, celebrating your strengths, and embracing your challenges, you can reconnect with your natural rhythms, so doing would be an extension of being.

Spiritual Connection

Are you longing for meaning, feeling disconnected from Allah, or struggling with a sense of belonging and spiritual confusion? Your body is your portal for spiritual reconnection. Together, you will learn to listen to your senses and help your body engage in your religious and spiritual practices.

Couple Core Desires

As a couple, you might know each other, but you might also be lost in what you can do for each other, so you would feel more connected and experience intimacy. I support couples in exploring their deeper desires, not just sexually but also emotionally, by learning to co-regulate and meet each other where they are.

Psychosomatic Symptoms

Sometimes, our bodies speak what we don't. From digestive issues to fatigue, misophonia, eczema, and migraines, symptoms carry a deeper story. Working with your nervous system, your body can find ways to recreate the balance without the daunting cost.

Autoimmune conditions

Living with autoimmune conditions can feel like your body is fighting itself. While I don't treat medical conditions, supporting your nervous system can ease stress, inflammation and increase your overall sense of resilience.

Procrastination & Burnout

You want to get things done, but your body says no. You might be pushing, but then collapse, freeze, or feel stuck. These are not failures, these are signs of a nervous system that is overworked. In my nervous-system-aware productivity model, you learn how to prevent procrastination and burn out for the long run, while staying productive and delivering work and chores before the deadline.

Attuned Motherhood & Fatherhood

Parenting brings up everything: your past, patterns, wounds, and hopes. Whether expecting, parenting, or wanting to do better, somatic work helps you show up grounded and present, true to yourself while holding both your adult and inner child. This is sacred work—breaking cycles and healing future generations.

Sensory Senstivity

Do certain lights, fabrics, sounds, or smells overwhelm you more than others around you? You are not exaggerating, your experience is different, and your nerves are like bare wires, picking up more information than others. We would work with your sensory system to reduce feeling overwhelmed and help you feel more at ease through a nervous system reset and accommodation education.

Embodiment & Presence

Life has become faster than ever, and it is harder than ever to be in our bodies. Embodiment is about learning to live in your body again through noticing, feeling, choosing, and reclaiming presence. We do that in Body Play classes and my sessions as well.

Adult-diagnosed Autism

Have you just discovered that you are autistic? My first-hand experience, personal research, and professional training have helped me equip many adult-diagnosed type-one autistics with the tools and accommodations that would support their sensory, and communication needs.

Neuroaffirmative Care

Neurospicy people need specific accommodations, care, and a different lens from their therapists. I have dedicated myself and my work to offering my clients what I always wished to have. I honor the unique way you process emotions and information and give you tools tailored to your needs. We rediscover your functioning needs and challenges in a validating environment.

Sexual Attunement

Sex is not only about intercourse; there is a full spectrum of attunement and endless opportunities for connection with your partner. Reconnecting with your rhythm, desire, and capacity to feel safe in intimacy is how to have this attunement as a couple.

Boundaries & Consent

Between yes and no in long-term relationships, there are many negotiations and spaces of clarity to honor your needs and connect with your loved ones simultaneously. While your body holds the very first physical boundary, which is your skin and everything else hold and express your emotions.

Limited range movement

Chronic stress, trauma, or disconnection can all affect your posture and how you move. Through our work together in therapy or Body Play classes, we rediscover movement and return slowly and bit by bit to safety, trusting your body.

Creative Block

You want to create but feel stuck. Creative blocks often originate from your nervous system. From fear of failure, exposure, or not being enough to perfectionism, demand avoidance, and self-criticism, somatic therapy can help you gain clarity and loosen the block grip.

Culture-informed care

You don't need to explain everything. As a bilingual Middle Eastern Muslim therapist, I understand the tension of living between cultures. I've supported first, second, and third-generation immigrants in navigating new worlds, honoring their values, and listening to the stories their bodies carry, often across generations.

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Yasmine Madkour is a Somatic Therapist & Sexologist. Yasmine offers therapy services, classes, workshops, and programs to her clients worldwide and online.

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Teaching Assistant of Somatic Experiencing International
Active Member of United States of America Body Psychotherapy Association
Certified by the American Board of Sexologists
Certified Somatica Institute Sex Coach
Certified Adaptive Therapist for Autistic Adults
Teaching Assistant of Somatic Experiencing International
Active Member of United States of America Body Psychotherapy Association
Certified by the American Board of Sexologists
Certified Somatica Institute Sex Coach
Certified Adaptive Therapist for Autistic Adults

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SOMATIC THERAPY
somatic therapy

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is not just another therapy. It’s a unique somatic approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine, rooted in the polyvagal theory.It’s designed to address nervous system dysregulation after traumatic experiences. Through SE, you’ll have the space to fully process your traumas with a safe, containing, compassionate witness.In parallel, you’ll expand your capacity, build resilience, and experience a broader spectrum of feelings, emotions, and sensations without overwhelm.

SEX THERAPY
SEX THERAPY

Somatic Sexology

Sex is a life force, and pleasure is a birthright. Somatic sexology is an integrative approach that blends both the neuroscience of the body and the psychology of relationships.Based on attachment theory, boundary work, and intimacy coaching, clients learn about their sexuality, connect with their partners, and explore their core desires. In a safe, judgment-free setting, they engage more with their bodies through playfulness and curiosity.

Heartfelt Testimonials

Healing Journeys

I've reached a level of safety, stability, tranquility, and psychological reassurance that I've searched for my whole life and never found. I was able to achieve them with Yasmine after our sessions 🙏🏻.


I've paused our sessions for a while because I want to do some self-reflection, and I will return to therapy with her later.

Yasmine never ended a session before making sure I was in a stable place and always asked if it was an appropriate time to conclude. This always reassured me.


She's the only therapist who, no matter how strange what I was saying or how much I disliked myself, encouraged me to look at my feelings and events with curiosity and without judging myself. I never felt like she was giving me advice or theories from an ivory tower.


Yasmine is a sincere, trustworthy, and generous person, and a professional therapist. I always feel, when attending her workshops and programs, that she's incredibly open with information and gives from her heart.

I have tried many help-professionals from coaches to therapists, and with Yasmine I found something that is different.

Many many life changing shifts occurred over the past few years because of the support that I received in this space. I’m so grateful for Yasmine's heart, guidance, and my journey with her.

Before Yasmine, I was diagnosed with Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) and started talk therapy, which wasn't the best fit for me, but it did set me on the right path. I was lost in my symptoms, unable to feel any desire for life or enjoy anything.


Now, I've been working with Yasmine for over two years through individual sessions, in addition to the workshops I've attended with her and the "Break the Cycle" program.


The healing journey requires patience and time. Yasmine would ask questions that helped me compare my present self to my past. She never gave me canned answers, nor did she ever diagnose or label me in a way that confined me.

No matter what I understand from Yasmine about what we do in sessions, sometimes I don't really know "intellectually" what really happened in our sessions because I was so in my body, but later on I find out how my nervous system shifts, symptoms disappear, and my relationships and reactions change drastically.

I've reached a level of safety, stability, tranquility, and psychological reassurance that I've searched for my whole life and never found. I was able to achieve them with Yasmine after our sessions 🙏🏻.


I've paused our sessions for a while because I want to do some self-reflection, and I will return to therapy with her later.

Yasmine never ended a session before making sure I was in a stable place and always asked if it was an appropriate time to conclude. This always reassured me.


She's the only therapist who, no matter how strange what I was saying or how much I disliked myself, encouraged me to look at my feelings and events with curiosity and without judging myself. I never felt like she was giving me advice or theories from an ivory tower.


Yasmine is a sincere, trustworthy, and generous person, and a professional therapist. I always feel, when attending her workshops and programs, that she's incredibly open with information and gives from her heart.

I have tried many help-professionals from coaches to therapists, and with Yasmine I found something that is different.

Many many life changing shifts occurred over the past few years because of the support that I received in this space. I’m so grateful for Yasmine's heart, guidance, and my journey with her.

Before Yasmine, I was diagnosed with Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) and started talk therapy, which wasn't the best fit for me, but it did set me on the right path. I was lost in my symptoms, unable to feel any desire for life or enjoy anything.


Now, I've been working with Yasmine for over two years through individual sessions, in addition to the workshops I've attended with her and the "Break the Cycle" program.


The healing journey requires patience and time. Yasmine would ask questions that helped me compare my present self to my past. She never gave me canned answers, nor did she ever diagnose or label me in a way that confined me.

No matter what I understand from Yasmine about what we do in sessions, sometimes I don't really know "intellectually" what really happened in our sessions because I was so in my body, but later on I find out how my nervous system shifts, symptoms disappear, and my relationships and reactions change drastically.

I've reached a level of safety, stability, tranquility, and psychological reassurance that I've searched for my whole life and never found. I was able to achieve them with Yasmine after our sessions 🙏🏻.


I've paused our sessions for a while because I want to do some self-reflection, and I will return to therapy with her later.

Yasmine never ended a session before making sure I was in a stable place and always asked if it was an appropriate time to conclude. This always reassured me.


She's the only therapist who, no matter how strange what I was saying or how much I disliked myself, encouraged me to look at my feelings and events with curiosity and without judging myself. I never felt like she was giving me advice or theories from an ivory tower.


Yasmine is a sincere, trustworthy, and generous person, and a professional therapist. I always feel, when attending her workshops and programs, that she's incredibly open with information and gives from her heart.

I have tried many help-professionals from coaches to therapists, and with Yasmine I found something that is different.

Many many life changing shifts occurred over the past few years because of the support that I received in this space. I’m so grateful for Yasmine's heart, guidance, and my journey with her.

Before Yasmine, I was diagnosed with Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) and started talk therapy, which wasn't the best fit for me, but it did set me on the right path. I was lost in my symptoms, unable to feel any desire for life or enjoy anything.


Now, I've been working with Yasmine for over two years through individual sessions, in addition to the workshops I've attended with her and the "Break the Cycle" program.


The healing journey requires patience and time. Yasmine would ask questions that helped me compare my present self to my past. She never gave me canned answers, nor did she ever diagnose or label me in a way that confined me.

No matter what I understand from Yasmine about what we do in sessions, sometimes I don't really know "intellectually" what really happened in our sessions because I was so in my body, but later on I find out how my nervous system shifts, symptoms disappear, and my relationships and reactions change drastically.

Frequently Asked Questions

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In traditional talk therapy, you would analyze and dive into the story to understand the root cause of your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. In somatic therapy, the story of what happened doesn't matter as much as the story your body is telling. Although we might pay attention to the headline of the event, giving your physiology the space to reorganize, and integrate the experience is what coins somatic therapy as a faster and safer approach to treat trauma, psychosomatic symptoms, anxiety, chronic pain, and much more. If you scroll up you can find some of what somatic therapy can treat and work with.

Consult call (25 minutes) booking rate is $75. The first session and all sessions afterward (45 mins) are $200. Long sessions (90 mins) are $400. All payments are online by credit card through the booking system.

It varies from one person to another. Our nervous systems are diverse, and what we experience in our lives, our capacities, and the level of support we receive change occasionally. It will be unfair to estimate the number of sessions, but I always encourage my clients to stay curious as we go on this journey. To put your mind at ease, on average, around the 6th session, you will have already experienced the effect (not results) of somatic therapy on your life, capacity, and sense of life.

You can reschedule or cancel your session at least 48 hours before your original scheduled time. Reschedules are allowed only once per booking.

Yes! You can subscribe to a package of 10 or 15 sessions. Additionally, you will get an extended access to the Body Play Classes Library, which supports your therapeutic journey and helps you get familiar with your nervous system language.

No. You can't. My recommendation for you is to consult your current therapist on pausing sessions with them and defining your goals from somatic therapy, so your work with me would be complementary to your current therapy journey. This applies as well to any and all somatic and body-based interventions including: massage therapy, accupuncture, feldenkrais , breathwork, cognitive and dialectical therapy, group therapy, dance and movement therapy. All of these practices interfere with our work. It is strongly advised that you are not in two modalities of therapy at the same time as this overwhelms your nerovous system. Though your regular workouts are okay, your physical exercises and stretching are okay, dancing as a personal practice not therapy is okay, as well as your personal practices. You are advised to share what are your practices and your daily routines in your first session. It is important to know that it not ethical as per the US Body Psychotherapists Association that I work with someone who is currently seeing another therapist, for the reasons above, mainly for your safety and your wellbeing.

No, Yasmine doesn't deal with insurance, but we can provide you with proof of payment and a report of your case to use in your insurance claim، but Yasmine doesn't deal with insurance claims, forms, or insurance employees.

Yes. Yasmine offers a percentage of my sessions as discounted. Unfortunately they are all booked right now. You can come back to this question and answer, we will update it with any details once a spot is open.

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