trauma informed.
somatic approach.
attachment lens.

I’m Carmen Spagnola, (“Span-yola”). I’m a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Somatic Trauma Recovery Practitioner holding space for stability, healing, and renewal amidst turmoil.

Through attachment repatterning and trauma recovery, I help people face, release, and resolve personal and intergenerational trauma histories.

a white woman with long brown hair smiling, holding a handful of pink roses in one hand, and a small feather in the other. She's wearing a soft blue jumper.
 
 
 

Let’s help you reconnect to yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you.

With an approach based in the neuroscience of attachment and awareness of systemic oppression, we’ll work through the barriers, stress, and traumatic histories that prevent you from creating the meaningful life you want to lead.

 

Meet Carmen

Somatic trauma recovery practitioner. Wilderness quest guide. Podcast host since 2014. Le Cordon Bleu-trained Chef. Rose and vegetable gardener. Collapse-aware coach. Witch of no particular affiliation. Animist, among other things…

If I owned business cards, they would say something like, Somatic Practitioner, or Clinical Hypnotherapist, Attachment Coach, or may be even Chef and Cookbook Author.

Perhaps most accurately they’d say, Cranky Lady. Because I get cranky (#sarcasm #understatement) about capitalist imperialist white supremacist patriarchy and I see how that shows up in every relationship we have whether with ourselves or others or the more-than-human world.

I work at the intersection of attachment, somatic attunement, and personal/collective trauma.

People find me because something is collapsing within or around them – their relationship, self-identity, ecosystem, or something else. They find me because that’s where I am: in the collapse place, holding ground.

 

How to Work with Me:

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The Numinous Network 

Learn the nuts and bolts of attachment and practical tools for nervous system stabilization.

Access support now via my private network.

Join my monthly membership subscription for live classes, on-demand video courses, and special seasonal gatherings,

at a sliding scale price.

  • Drop-in somatics classes nearly every day

  • Attachment courses

  • Library of short videos for self-regulation practices

  • Support for therapeutic practitioners and caregivers

  • Connection calls for Long Covid sufferers

  • The Safe & Sound Protocol included in membership

  • Autoimmune disorder and rare disease forum

  • Committed to anticolonialism, antiracism, anticapitalism

 
 
 

The Numinous Podcast

Hundreds of episodes on topics like witchcraft, grief, magical cookery, decolonization, plant medicine, escaping cults and totalitarian regimes, collapse of empire, attachment, trauma healing, whiteness, nurturance culture, mysticism, hide tanning, sacred beekeeping, Tarot, poetry… Do you need to hear more?

The Spirited Kitchen

AVAILABLE ONLINE & IN STORES NOW

The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year arrives in autumn from W.W.Norton! It’s a practical manual for connecting to the seasons, the spirit of the natural world around you, and your beloveds, through food and craft. Embody ritual and spirit in the kitchen and community, and drop into a deeper rhythm with life. Learn more and find out when you can pre-order your copy!

 

Client Testimonials

  • “Carmen models checking in with your body really well. It’s not just telling you to check-in, she teaches you by doing it herself. She shares the latest research and teaches skills to connect with your kids and partner. She holds space in a loving way. She is real and living what she teaches. It’s beautiful to work with her. Carmen challenges us to all be better.”

    — DIANA ROLLINS

  • “Carmen is a wise and nurturing teacher who offers the perfect mix of philosophical and practical to inspire change.”

    – MORGAN CHAPMAN

  • “Carmen has been a skilful, wise and reliable guide/leader/teacher on my healing path, creating safe, inclusive spaces to dive deep (or not) into dark waters I was afraid to enter before. You are not left alone as Carmen's work is about relationships and connection... she will bear witness and she will create circles of support, providing us with the tools to witness each other at our own pace. Never any judgement- you get to come as you are.”

    — STEPHANIE GABEL

  • “Carmen blends her in-depth understanding of current neuroscience with heart, humor, expertise, and practical, accessible tools. After just one Attachment for Parents class, the tools offered and put into practice helped shift our family dynamics in a positive direction. She is a uniquely gifted teacher.”

    — JANE RIOSECO