What is Somatic Therapy?

Somatic therapy is a holistic, body-centered approach to healing that works with the intimate connection between the mind, body, and nervous system.

Unlike traditional talk therapy that primarily focuses on thoughts and emotions, somatic therapy recognizes that trauma, stress, and unresolved emotional experiences are often stored in the body as tension, physical sensations, or dysregulated energy.

Over time, these somatic imprints can impact your emotional well-being, relationships, and overall sense of safety and presence.

Through gentle movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and awareness of bodily sensations, somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body, release trapped tension, and regulate your nervous system.

This process allows suppressed emotions and unresolved experiences to surface safely, facilitating deep healing, integration, and self-awareness.

Somatic therapy emphasizes listening to the body as a guide, cultivating compassion for yourself, and creating a sense of embodied presence in your daily life.

This approach is particularly effective for those navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. It can also support those seeking to deepen self-awareness, resilience, and connection to their inner wisdom.

Somatic therapy is not just about symptom relief—it’s about reclaiming your body, restoring your innate capacity to self-soothe, and nurturing a profound connection to your mind, heart, and spirit.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic therapy, including Somatic Experiencing, is a body-centered approach to healing that helps you reconnect with your body and restore balance to your nervous system.

Trauma, chronic stress, and emotional overwhelm are often stored physically in the body as tension, restricted movement, or dysregulated energy.

Somatic therapy works with these sensations rather than just thoughts, allowing your body to complete interrupted or frozen responses and release what no longer serves you.

A core aspect of this work is the use of breath and mindful awareness. By tuning into your breath and subtle bodily sensations, you can safely explore areas of tension, stress, or trauma and support the nervous system in moving from a state of survival or shutdown into regulation and resilience.

This process helps you feel more grounded, present, and embodied in daily life.

Through Somatic Experiencing, you learn to notice your body’s messages, regulate your internal state, and restore a sense of safety and aliveness.

Over time, this approach can reduce anxiety, improve emotional flexibility, release chronic tension, and deepen your connection to yourself and the world around you. It’s a gentle, yet powerful way to reclaim your body and cultivate lasting healing from the inside out.