In-person Sessions
Meet in a calm, supportive space where somatic therapy helps you tune into your body, release stored stress, and build a greater sense of safety and regulation.
Virtual Sessions
Connect with your therapist from home while learning to notice how emotions and stress show up in your body and developing tools to feel more grounded and present.
Somatic therapy focuses on the connection between your emotional experiences and your physical body. Many difficult experiences and unprocessed emotions are stored not only in our thoughts, but in our nervous systems. Somatic therapy helps you notice physical sensations, emotional responses, and patterns in the body that are connected to stress, unfelt emotions, anxiety, or past traumas.
In somatic therapy sessions, your therapist will attune not just to your words, but to how your body and breath are communicating. Working as a team, your therapist will guide you to pay attention to your breathing and physical sensations, increasing body awareness as you talk about and feel current and past experiences. This process helps your nervous system and body release stored tension and anxiety, develop a greater sense of balance, safety, and freedom.
Over time, many people feel more grounded, more connected to their body, more comfortable with emotions, better able to regulate stress, and experience a decrease in psychosomatic symptoms.
Somatic therapy helps people understand how emotional experiences, stress, and anxiety are held in the body. When the nervous system has been under prolonged stress or has experienced trauma, the body can remain in states of tension, hypervigilance, or shutdown. Somatic therapy works directly with these physical responses to help release trauma and emotions stuck in the body, decreasing psychosomatic symptoms and creating a greater sense of safety.
By developing awareness of your body’s communication patterns, understanding where in your body unfelt emotions are held, and learning mindfulness tools to regulate the nervous system, many clients experience reduced anxiety, improved emotional regulation, and a stronger connection between mind and body. Over time, somatic therapy can help people reduce chronic pain, respond to stress more easily, process difficult experiences more deeply, and feel more present in their everyday lives.
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Somatic therapy is an approach that focuses on the connection between the mind and body. It helps people become aware of how emotions and stress show up physically and supports healing through body awareness and nervous system regulation.
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Somatic therapy can help with trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, panic, emotional overwhelm, and patterns where the body feels constantly tense or shut down.
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Somatic therapy works by helping you notice physical sensations and nervous system responses while you share and feel emotional experiences. This awareness allows the body to release stored tension, anxiety and suppressed emotions trapped within it.
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Somatic therapy does not involve physical exercises. Both you and your therapist will attune to your breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to understand what they are communicating to you.
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Yes. Somatic therapy is often used to help people process trauma, releasing trauma and its associated emotions from the body.
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Many somatic approaches are supported by research in neuroscience and trauma therapy. Somatic approaches such as ISTDP and mindfulness are evidence- and research-based.
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Sessions involve deep attunement with a therapist while you talk, feel and increase awareness of bodily sensations, breathing, and emotional responses. Your therapist will help you notice how your body reacts to suppressed emotions and encourage you to feel them for release.
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Yes. Somatic therapy can be conducted through secure virtual sessions, and many body awareness techniques translate well to online therapy.
Somatic therapy can help you understand how stress and emotions live in the body and develop tools to feel more grounded and regulated.
