Nervous System Regulation
Why can’t you stop overthinking?
Overthinking is a stress response. Nervous system regulation for anxiety, emotional reactivity, burnout, and chronic stress.
Overthinking is a stress response. Nervous system regulation for anxiety, emotional reactivity, burnout, and chronic stress.
Training & accreditation
Nervous system dysregulation is the body’s stress response stuck in an automatic pattern. The stress response fires before thought: the nervous system learned what felt like a threat, and the reactions happen before you can choose a response (LeDoux, 1996). It is a trainable capacity, not a fixed trait (Porges, 2011).
This is a stress system stuck in survival mode, running an old pattern.
Most stress management teaches you to manage symptoms. This is different. Using body-based tools, we track what your autonomic nervous system is actually doing, and build the capacity for more space and more choice in how you respond. Nervous system regulation is the internal layer of the Performance Under Pressure approach.
This is not about trying harder. We address the underlying pattern.
Assessment + 6 sessions · 8 weeks
Biofeedback stress assessment with a Harvard protocol used in burnout clinics. You see how your nervous system reacts and recovers. Education, a personalized report, and a regulation plan. Traditionally takes 75 minutes, in person in Zug.
Body-based regulation sessions. Build the skills and practice using them when stress hits, not just in a calm room.
Applied to real situations: conversations, decisions, boundaries, pressure. In-the-moment regulation, not talk therapy or breathwork.
Take-home practices. Sustainable for everyday moments, not just sessions.
Works with sensation, movement, and awareness to support stuck stress patterns.
Learn more →Measure what your nervous system is doing in real time. See your data.
Learn more →A short conversation to see if this is the right fit. No commitment. No pressure.
Online
No charge
Book a free 15-minute callHarvard-protocol biofeedback assessment. Education and a personalized report with tailored regulation tools.
Traditionally takes 75 minutes · in person in Zug
CHF 300
Book a Stress Profile6 sessions over 8 weeks. 4 weekly, then 2 bi-monthly. Online.
CHF 900
Or start with a single session · 50 minutes, online · CHF 150
Make an appointmentSwiss insurance reimbursement. Supplementary health insurance (Zusatzversicherung) coverage is available for some methods and for nervous system regulation training and education. Ask what applies to you.
Case study coming soon.
Case study coming soon.
“I struggled with anxiety and panic attacks that I cannot explain. Now, I feel more calm in moments where I really need to show up. I feel more confident as a leader.”Compliance OfficerZug
“When I feel backed in a corner, I snap. Instead of needing to win every conversation, I can now pause, let it go, and choose what I say. My relationships are better.”IT ManagerSchwyz
“This isn’t counseling. You understand how your body works under stress. I feel empowered again.”A. H.Managing Director, Switzerland
“During this process, I was better able to keep my emotions level. When talking with other people about their challenging situations, I was able to listen, but not take on their emotions.”Banking AnalystZurich
“I was so focused on holding everything together, I didn’t even know what I wanted anymore. It was like I was the walking dead, I didn’t feel my body. Now my body feels like it has energy flowing through it, down to the tips of my fingers. It feels electric, I feel alive.”LenaPeople & Culture leader, Minneapolis
“It was just so easy to be me. Like a muscle that’s been dormant, starting to feel or be another part of me. That’s new: to have that permission to just be ordinary. I don’t have to perform.”PeterAdult Education and Training, Basel
The capacity to move through stress and high demand without getting stuck in the response. Not about staying calm, but about recovering faster and having more choice in how you respond. It is a trainable capacity, not a fixed trait. (Porges, 2011)
Overreacting happens before conscious thought: the nervous system learned what felt like a threat, and the reaction happens before choice. We practice creating space before the reaction fires, building a new baseline over time. (LeDoux, 1996; van der Kolk, 2014; Levine, 1997)
No. This is coaching and nervous system training for performance and capacity, not psychotherapy, diagnosis, or medical treatment. Where clinical care is needed, a referral is made.
Supplementary health insurance (Zusatzversicherung) coverage is available for some methods and for nervous system regulation training and education. Catherine is EMR and ASCA registered (krankenkassenanerkannt): ask what applies to you before your first session.
Catherine Peloquin is based in Zug and works with clients online and in Zurich, Basel, and Lucerne, across Switzerland, and in Minneapolis. Over a decade of nervous system training including Somatic Experiencing, the Polyvagal Institute, biofeedback, neurofeedback, IFS, NARM, and HeartMath.
Yes, globally via video call. The biofeedback Stress Profile is one in-person session in Zug, Switzerland.
