Somatic Trauma Therapy · Brooklyn, NY
Healing begins
in the body.
For women who have been surviving for so long, they’ve forgotten what it feels like to be at home in themselves.
You’ve been carrying this alone for long enough.
Sexual trauma and complex PTSD are at the heart of this practice — somatic, relational, experiential. For many of the women I work with, estrangement and intimacy wounds travel alongside that story, often shaped by culture, family, and the invisible weight of not quite belonging. Rarely a separate thread.
I do my deepest work with Asian and Asian American women — first-generation immigrants, third culture kids, women navigating the intersection of cultural displacement, family rupture, and the particular weight of existing between worlds.
My door is open to all women and femmes, BIPOC individuals, LGBTQ+ communities, and anyone carrying the exhaustion of being seen but not truly known.
More about who I work with
Something in you already knows where the healing lives.
Two containers,
shaped around you.
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The Foundation
A consistent, recurring container where the real work happens. Relational, somatic, and experiential. The steady ground where transformation becomes possible.
Learn moreThe Deepening
A preparation session, an immersive three-hour intensive, and a closing integration. Deep, sustained somatic processing in one focused arc.
Learn moreBreathwork, embodied practice, and community work are offered through Osmanthus Moon.
The places I know best.
These are the territories I’ve mapped again and again — in my own healing and alongside the women I work with.
Complex Trauma
The wounds that shaped how you relate to yourself, others, and the world. Often invisible, always felt. Not what happened to you, but what happened inside you because of it.
Read moreSexual Trauma
Slow, boundaried, body-based healing for anyone working to reclaim safety and connection in their own skin. At whatever pace your nervous system needs.
Read moreEstrangement & Grief
Chosen distance. Family rupture. The specific grief of estrangement — whether you’re in it, living alongside it, slowly grieving it, or quietly wondering whether reconciliation is even possible. A space for what doesn’t have a clean answer.
Read moreRelationships & Intimacy
Navigating desire, boundaries, trust, and closeness, especially after trauma. A sex-positive, shame-free space for the full complexity of your relational life.
Read moreTherapy as internal mapmaking.
Before I became a therapist, I worked in geography and cartography — mapping terrain, tracing boundaries, finding orientation in unfamiliar landscapes. That work still shapes how I hold this one. I am a first-generation immigrant, a trauma survivor, and a clinician whose second career became her deepest calling.
Ivy Chim, LCSW · Somatic Experiencing · AEDP · Parts Work · Breathwork
Read my full story“Years as a healer and trauma therapist have taught me that trauma isn’t destiny. The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing.”
— Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands
Beyond the Therapy Room
Osmanthus Moon
A space for breathwork, embodied practice, and community gathering — rooted in the belief that our lineages carry medicine, and that healing across generations has always been something we do together.
Explore Osmanthus MoonYou don’t need
the right words.
You just need a willingness to arrive. I offer a free 20-minute consultation — no pressure, no commitment, just a chance to see if this feels like the right fit.
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