Alyssa is a trauma-informed somatic facilitator, artist, and mutual aid organizer who supports people in learning to work with their nervous systems with curiosity and care. Her work is shaped by lived experience, committed study, community mentorship, and deep relational practice.

She is a certified Resilience Toolkit Practitioner and a Voice Dialogue Facilitator. She has trained in Loving Conflict and the Color Model with Char Kasza, Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication and Family Constellations with Meenadchi and Southern Italian folklore with Lisa Fazio.

Alyssa holds a bachelor’s degree in Law and Media and continues to deepen her practice through somatic and community-based learning.

Living with complex PTSD and surviving CSA inform her work and shape an embodied understanding of survival patterns as brilliant, protective adaptations not flaws. Her approach to healing is non-linear and non-clinical, grounded in deep care and trust for the body’s own pace.

She believes healing unfolds in relationship, that our nervous systems carry their own intelligence, and that personal transformation is interconnected with collective liberation.

Sessions are collaborative and consent-based. Together, you will build awareness of your nervous system’s rhythms, notice shifts with curiosity, and develop practical tools that support more agency, and choice. 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.

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, Ruthie Fraser, 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, Mary Beth Bonfiglio, 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: