Online & San Antonio
(213) 719-9727
Do you desire deeper emotional and physical intimacy with your partner(s)?
I’m a somatic relationship practitioner integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) to support couples and individuals in transforming relational patterns, reconnecting with the body, and deepening emotional and physical intimacy.
Common Reasons People
Come To This Work
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Repeating patterns of conflict or disconnection in relationships
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Wanting to communicate more clearly with a partner about needs, boundaries, and desires
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Deepening emotional and physical intimacy with yourself or a partner
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Feeling disconnected from your body, sensuality, or sexuality
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Navigating differences in desire or intimacy within a relationship
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Exploring non-monogamy or alternative relationship structures
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Healing from experiences of betrayal, rupture, or relational trauma
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Navigating separation or conscious uncoupling with care and clarity
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Healing from experiences of boundary violations, sexual assault, or abuse
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Reclaiming a sense of pleasure, sensuality, and embodied presence
Availability
My practice is currently full through mid-May, and I’m not scheduling new consultations at this time.
I anticipate a small number of openings becoming available beginning in mid-May. If you’d like to be contacted when those openings are released, you’re welcome to join the waitlist.
How I Work
The work we do together draws from several complementary approaches that support relational healing, embodiment, and intimacy. My practice integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) couples work, and Somatic Sex Education.
Intimacy From The Inside Out (IFIO)
Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) is an Internal Family Systems–based approach designed specifically for couples. This work helps partners understand the protective parts that shape their reactions, conflicts, and patterns of disconnection.
Through this process, partners learn to slow down reactive cycles, communicate more authentically, and meet one another with greater empathy and curiosity. As each person develops a deeper relationship with their own inner system, new possibilities for connection, repair, and intimacy begin to emerge within the relationship.
Couples work is a central focus of my practice. I work with partners of all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship structures, including monogamous, polyamorous, ethical non-monogamous, open, aromantic, and asexual partnerships.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a powerful, evidence-based model for understanding the different “parts” that make up our inner world.
Over the course of our lives, we develop protective parts that help us navigate painful experiences and vulnerable parts that carry emotional wounds. In IFS work, we approach these parts with curiosity and compassion, helping them relax the roles they have had to carry. In my work, this process also includes attention to the body and nervous system, drawing from somatic IFS approaches that support deeper awareness of how parts are experienced physically and emotionally.
From this place of greater self-awareness and Self-leadership, individuals and partners often discover new freedom in how they relate to themselves and to one another.
For more information about the model, visit the IFS Institute.
Somatic Sex Education (SSE)
Somatic Sex Education (SSE) is a body-based approach to reconnecting with sexuality, pleasure, and embodied intimacy.
Through guided embodiment practices, breath, movement, and awareness exercises, individuals and partners can deepen their relationship with their bodies and develop greater clarity around desire, boundaries, and sensation. Many individuals come to this work after years of prioritizing others’ needs over their own embodied experience, while couples often seek new pathways for communication, exploration, and shared discovery in intimacy.
This work can be especially supportive for people who feel disconnected from their bodies or sexuality due to cultural conditioning, relational patterns, or past experiences of trauma. Rooted in Wheel of Consent™ education and integrating movement, breathwork, and mindfulness practices, it supports individuals and partners in cultivating greater agency, self-trust, and authentic connection with themselves and one another.
Hi, I'm Deanna.
(they/them)
Welcome to The Body Noetic. I'm passionate about working with people who struggle with blocks or behaviors that get in the way of them experiencing the life, relationships or sex they want to be having. I'm also passionate about helping people (re)connect with their body and inner wisdom. Often, this goes hand in hand.
As an actor, I spent years studying scripts, the choices characters make and the wounds that were driving them. As a practitioner, I aim to guide you to understand your own scripts and the wounds that drive them and empower you to restore choice in your life and relationships. My work is trauma-informed and inclusive, co-creating a space where you can feel safe and free to bring your unique identities, needs, interests, life experiences, neurodivergence, physical and mental health abilities. My practice is a safe LGBTQIA+ space.
My services are available over zoom, in person at my San Antonio, TX office or as walk-and-talk sessions at Hardberger Park in San Antonio.
My journey to this work is intertwined with my own personal healing and recovery from complex PTSD. In addition, I have completed Internal Family Systems
Level 1 Practitioner Training, IFS Level 2-Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) Basic Training, IFIO Sexuality Matters Advanced Training, IFIO Betrayal & Repair Advanced Training and Susan McConnell's Somatic IFS training. I have studied with teachers at the Sea School of Embodiment, Institute of Somatic Sexology, School of Relational Embodiment, and School of Somatic Sexology, receiving certifications in Sexological Bodywork and Embodied Sex Coaching. I’ve also studied at the Co-Active Training Institute receiving my Certificate of Completion for CTI’s Coach Training Program. I am a member of the Association for Coaching and the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB) and adhere to the ethical codes of both.
Some identities I hold: white, neurodivergent, genderfluid, pansexual, parent.
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