Feeling stuck and wanting things to change? Core Energetics, a somatic healing modality, might be the help you need. This work revolves around dropping out of the head and into the body, letting go of thought processes and allowing awareness to come in from below the neckline. 

You may have already gained some wisdom around why you struggle with anxiety, relationships, shame, grief, people-pleasing, numbness, or self-doubt—but knowing hasn’t created lasting change. Core Energetics is a body-centered approach that helps you move beyond insight and into transformation through exploring the protective patterns that your body developed to help you survive—patterns that may once have kept you safe, but may now be keeping you from fully living.

This work invites you to move out of constant thinking and gently into your body’s own wisdom. Through awareness, movement, breath, and presence, you’ll begin to understand how you’ve learned to protect yourself—and discover that those old strategies no longer have to define your life.

This is for people who are ready to feel different—not just think differently.

This work may be right for you if…

• You’ve been in therapy but still find yourself repeating the same patterns.
• You understand your emotions intellectually but struggle to actually allow yourself to feel them.
• Anxiety, shame, anger, or grief seem to live in your body.
• You feel disconnected from yourself or feel emotionally numb.
• You keep sabotaging relationships, work, or opportunities despite wanting something different.
• You’re curious about the story your body has to tell surrounding trauma and your experience with it. 
• You don’t have the “right words.” You may not even know exactly what’s wrong. You just want to understand what you’ve been holding. 

Core Energetics

We often think healing happens by changing our thoughts. Thoughts matter—but emotions are experienced in the body. Many of the protective patterns we developed in childhood continue to shape our adult lives long after they’re needed. These patterns are not conscious, they are created within our bodies in order to stay “safe”, and they influence every aspect of our lives, from our behaviors to our underlying belief systems. Core Energetics combines conversation with breathing, grounding, movement, and body awareness to help release these old protective patterns so new ways of living become possible.

We get so stuck in the pattern and the feeling – whatever feeling the trauma caused, fear, sadness, rage. When we are able to feel it in that grounded place and allow its expression, it loses its potency, it weakens as a defense that is used. Awareness comes in, and with that awareness one can make a choice to choose differently. With greater understanding comes greater bandwidth, and with that understanding the limiting beliefs and the problems which so desperately cling to us will fall away.

What happens in a session?

We begin by talking about what brought you in. As we explore your experience, I’ll invite you to notice what is happening in your body—not just your thoughts. Through grounding, breathing, movement, voice, and other Core Energetics techniques which we call bodily-interventions, we’ll explore where emotions are being held physically.

There is a reclamation that happens here. Together we create space for feelings that may have been suppressed for years while staying connected, supported, and present. Sessions end with integration, allowing insight and embodied experience to come together.

What results can you expect?

• feeling lighter
• breathing more freely
• greater emotional awareness
• less anxiety
• stronger boundaries
• more authentic relationships
• increased confidence
• feeling more connected to themselves
• responding instead of reacting

The end result of this work is a shift from living out of unconscious patterns and protective defenses to living from awareness and choice. Through body-based interventions using the roller, cube, mat, and other forms of movement, the body is invited to complete what it has been holding onto—to express what was once stifled,pushed down, or left unfinished. As the body is allowed to move in the ways it has been longing to move, and the emotions connected to those patterns are felt from a grounded place, they begin to lose their potency. The defenses that were once necessary to protect the individual no longer need to hold the same charge. In their place, a new experience of being is created—onethat gently undermines the lived experience of denial, suppression, or unmet need. With this comes greater awareness, a deeper connection to the self, and the capacity to respond to life from the present rather than from the past. Where there was once only an automatic pattern, there is now the freedom to choose differently.

About Me

Theodore Richard Buonocore (he/him)

I’m a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner and completed the Institute of Core Energetics’ four-year professional training after beginning my studies at nineteen, making me one of the youngest people to complete the certification. My relationship with this work, though, started much earlier. I became fascinated with the work as a child. I saw it as a tangible form in which human beings have this innate magic that truly hides itself from us and yet when allowed in its expression is both absolutely strange and completely and innately human. This work (in my opinion) is not only the future of healing but is the key to finding out the truth of who we are as human beings, and why we allow for such separation and division between us. 

I have a deep love for the works of J.R.R Tolkien. I have a background in musical theater. Big fan of Ethel Cain and anything the Cocteau Twins put out. I am definitely a Hannah but I have a soft spot for Shosh too. Eldest of 9 children. My familial heritage hails from Napoli and Sicilia as well as some of the Northern European countries. Parlo Italiano un po ‘, non bene. E tu?

How Has Core Energetics impacted my healing journey?

Frankly, it blew me out of the water. In my earlier years I struggled to feel as though it was “ok” for me to not only be myself, but to actually be here, in reality. I felt as if I needed to hide this from the people around me, that I could handle it alone, without troubling anyone. 

This work helped me to understand, without going into too much detail, that though the way I felt was valid, it was also a way that I myself kept myself back from fully being in my life. It was a way that I was able to protect myself. Understanding this, and really allowing myself to experience the themes of fear and loss and quashed anger which remained in my body left over from childhood helped me to realize that I no longer needed to hold myself apart like that. Though it was hard, today I am able to do hard things and to feel things that were at one time immensely scary and painful for me to feel, because at the root of it this work is about confronting the “Unknown” within all of us, as well as finding out the truth about who we are, who we have always been but blocked ourselves from seeing. 

My goal as a practitioner is to listen, really connect and learn about my clients, hold them in all of their vibrancy, their messiness, and their pain.  My objective is to reflect back to them the truth of who they are, to help them to be free, to bear witness to their feeling of all the strength and power of their  hearts. 

Core Energetics is powerful and transformational work. It has changed my life, and the lives of many people I know, both clients and friends. Reach out to see if this path is right for you!