Alyssa is a trauma-informed somatic facilitator, artist, and mutual aid organizer who supports people in developing a deeper relationship with their bodies and nervous systems through curiosity, compassion, and care. Her work is shaped by lived experience, dedicated study, community mentorship, and a deep commitment to relational and collective healing.

She is a certified Resilience Toolkit Practitioner, Voice Dialogue Facilitator, and Loving Conflict Facilitator. Her studies and training have included Loving Conflict and the Color Model with Char Kasza, Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication and Family Constellations with Meenadchi, and Southern Italian folklore and embodied ancestral practices with Lisa Fazio and MaryBeth Bonfiglio.

Alyssa holds a bachelor's degree in Law and Media, which has shaped her understanding of social systems and informed her work in mutual aid, community organizing, and collective care. These experiences continue to shape her approach to healing, grounded in the understanding that individual wellbeing is deeply connected to the communities and systems we are part of.

Her lived experience informs a deep respect for survival patterns as intelligent, protective adaptations rather than flaws to be corrected. She approaches healing as a non-linear process, guided by curiosity, care, and trust in the body's own pace.

She believes that healing unfolds in relationship and that our bodies carry their own intelligence. Her work is grounded in curiosity, invitation and the understanding that healing is not something we have to navigate alone.

Sessions are collaborative, consent-based, and guided by your individual needs. Together, you will explore the rhythms of your nervous system, notice shifts with curiosity, and develop practical tools that support greater awareness, agency, and choice. There is no prescribed destination or pace, and all parts of you are welcome.

Alyssa lives and works in Catskill, New York, on the ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape and Mohican peoples. She holds the ocean in her heart and the Catskill Mountains outside her window. Sessions are available in person, over the phone and on Zoom.

Alyssa Kingman (she/they/we)

Photo of Alyssa in her ancestral homelands of Platí, Calabria, Southern Italy.

Our teachers, mentors and beloveds.

I honor my beloved teachers and mentors and those who have supported my healing:

Char Kasza, Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani, Nkem Ndefo, Meenadchi, Lisa Fazio, Bridgit Dengel-Gaspard, Larry Walker, Ida Pearl, the La Morada family, Jonathan Kingman, Earl Palmer, Julia Taylor, Amy Lawton, Katrina Saladi, Maria Pia, Jon Kasza, Zien Hodge, Christie Jordan Barron, Ma Badila, Samia Khan, Katiushka & Zuri Melo, Palisa Anderson, Alexina Cather, Talia Brooks-Salzman, Mary Beth Bonfiglio, Jennifer Sokolov, Jay Marinis, Frederick & Marlene Burns, Sis Olivia, Anita Di Pietro, and all those who exchange love and learning with me.

I also honor the teachers whose work has shaped me through songs, pages, podcasts, and dreams:

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Staci Haines, Prentis Hemphill, Sage Hayes, Resmaa Menakem, adrienne maree brown, Allison Russell, Bayo Akomolafe, Rebecca Huntley, and the living teachers in between the words; Venus, Benedicta, the Mountains, the Ocean, the Whales, and more.

To accompany our Tidework, I encourage you to pick up (or borrow from me) these transformative texts:

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press)

The Politics of Trauma (North Atlantic Books)

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

My Grandmother’s Hands


Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds


Outside of session you will find Alyssa collaborating within her political home and organizing for her village mutual aid projects: