What Is Somatic Therapy?
Many people enter therapy saying, “I can’t stop overthinking,” or “I feel disconnected from myself.” We spend so much of our lives in our heads—analyzing, explaining, trying to make sense of things—that we forget the body carries its own wisdom.
Somatic therapy is about coming home to that wisdom. It’s a body-centered approach that helps you process emotions, release stored tension, and find safety within your own nervous system.
“Our bodies remember what the mind forgets.” – Peter Levine
Somatic Therapy Explained
Somatic therapy integrates psychology with body awareness. It’s grounded in the understanding that emotions and trauma don’t just live in our thoughts—they live in our muscles, breath, posture, and nervous-system patterns. Somatic therapy helps you move from thinking about your experience to experiencing it safely in real time. Present processing allows us to stay with what is happening in the moment and create change from there. This builds trust in your body’s natural ability to regulate, heal, and return to balance.
What does a session look like?
In session, you might be guided to:
Notice where tension lives in your body and what emotions are held there.
Track subtle shifts—like warmth, vibration, or breath—when something releases.
Explore how your body responds to different emotions, memories, or images.
Practice grounding and containment when sensations feel intense, so your system learns that safety is possible even while feeling.
Why It Matters
Before we can think about an experience, we feel it. The body is always the first to respond — the heart quickens, the jaw tightens, the stomach drops. These physical cues are the nervous system’s way of saying, “Something’s happening.”
Our brains are constantly scanning for safety or threat, sending messages through the body long before we consciously understand what’s going on. The nervous system — made up of the brain, spinal cord, and vast web of nerves — regulates how we move between states of calm, alertness, and overwhelm. When it becomes stuck in survival mode (fight, flight, or freeze), we can feel anxious, numb, disconnected, or chronically tense.
Somatic therapy helps reestablish communication between body and mind. By bringing awareness to sensation, breath, and movement, you begin to notice how your system organizes around stress — and how it can return to safety. Over time, the body learns it no longer has to brace for danger, and the mind learns to trust the signals of calm.
Ready to start?
Somatic therapy is helpful for anyone who feels stuck in their head but disconnected from their body—those who overthink, feel anxious or restless, or struggle to relax even when life is going well. It’s especially supportive for people healing from trauma, chronic stress, burnout, or relational wounds, where the nervous system has learned to stay on alert.
It’s also for those who sense that talk therapy alone isn’t reaching the deeper layers—who want to feel more grounded, emotionally present, and safe within themselves.
✨ When you learn to listen to your body, you rediscover your anchor — a place of safety and wisdom that’s been within you all along.
