Talk therapy focuses mainly on thoughts and thinking-based insights helping you understand why you feel the way you do. Somatic therapy includes this, but also focuses on the body and nervous system, which helps access how and what exactly you feel.

By paying attention to sensations, breath, and impulses to move, somatic therapy supports emotional regulation and release at a physiological level. This “bottom-up” approach can create change even when understanding alone hasn’t been enough.

This kind of therapy is especially supportive for people who feel anxious, have a tendency to overthink and overanalyze, feel disconnected from their bodies, have a hard time getting in touch with and voicing their needs, as well as people feeling dysregulated and overwhelmed by their emotions and thoughts.

No, not necessarily. Somatic work can be very subtle like noticing sensations, breath, or internal shifts. You’re always in control of what we do in a session. Most people stay seated, perhaps with their eyes closed and focus on observing their inner-world in a session. If you feel called to include more movement or breathwork in a session, we can do that too.

This kind of therapy helps your nervous system learn safety again. When the body feels safer, anxious thoughts and overthinking naturally soften and become easier to manage.

Yes! Somatic therapy is a trauma-informed model of therapy. It is especially helpful for some people with trauma because it doesn’t have to involve retelling the exact story of what happened. Instead, it focuses on creating a sense of internal safety and releasing past emotions that may have gotten stuck in the body.

Yes, certainly. Talking is still part of the therapy process. We simply offer the invitation to pay attention to what your body is communicating alongside the words you use.