Client Experiences

I trusted John immediately even though I usually prefer to work with female practitioners in any healing environment. Incredibly caring and an astute and attentive practitioner. John brings compassion and humor to his work, all of it borne from a great depth of experience. 

During my somatic release session with John Petz we worked with a major childhood trauma that had negatively impacted me for many years.   

   The session released held trauma and rewired my mind and body in a way that I can now remember one of the most traumatic events of my life in a way that feels truly different.   It lost all its somatic charge and no longer brings up feelings of anxiety.   So freeing.

I felt the beginning of cutting loose in the very first session. Brand new, recent inklings of understanding, confirmed into tremendous insights. SO MUCH movement internally- more than I expected. I am truly in awe of how much transpired

   I have trained in somatic/sensation tracking but I’ve never had it combined with that incredibly masterful point holding you did— which felt both catalyzing and containing and safe

   You are so tuned in and so experienced in helping me with my super subtle/ practically invisible emotional trauma and I am utterly grateful that you see it so easily and are so able to help me with it. THANK YOU!!

Having experienced a persistent and painful memory of shaming by a family member, I was able to book a long distance video session with John in Santa Monica. I was put at ease instantly by his warmth and kindness.  John took the time to help me explore my own feelings and associations around the event while bringing me slowly but skillfully to the body’s held suffering.

   His compassion, insight, guidance and instruction on techniques to help myself through touch brought definite release and integration. I highly recommend John as a deeply intuitive and gifted healer.

I came to John after an accident in which I lacerated my foot while moving into a new home. When we began working with the incident John led me to the moments preceding the accident which held more meaning than I had expected. As we dove further into the situation, I uncovered unconscious feelings of being internally conflicted about the move. 

   John gently guided me through exploring these feelings while helping me become aware of the associated body sensations. I gained more and more insight into the emotions laying beneath the injury. As we processed these emotions, the pain in my foot began to calm and the conflict I felt about moving was resolved.

    I left the session with a deeper understanding of the entire incident, a sense of integration and returned sensation where my foot had previously been numb! I was now ready to embrace my new home and the adventure ahead. What an incredible journey. I am so grateful to have worked with John!

I came to John while I was in the midst of a painful break-up. The end of the relationship had come suddenly and had left me traumatized and on the verge of tears most days. 

   During the course of our work together, John helped calm my system and bring me out of the worst of the trauma. As we continued to work together I was able to follow the sensations in my body and uncover an early childhood trauma that had negatively affected my relationships my entire life.  

   With John's help I was able to release that trauma. I now feel calmer and healthier about relationships than I ever have.