Somatic Therapy: Feel Your Feelings To Free Your Mind
Your body remembers things your conscious mind doesn't. It holds the memories, emotions, and experiences that have shaped who you are today. This is why we can understand our struggles intellectually and still feel stuck.
In Somatic Therapy we reconnect with the wisdom of your body and bring awareness to the ways past experiences are stored within the nervous system. As emotions, trauma, and survival patterns are met and released, they no longer unconsciously shape your life or keep you trapped in patterns that no longer serve you. This allows you to feel more grounded, present, self-trusting, and alive.
How Somatic Therapy Can Support You:
Feel Confident in Managing Overwhelming Emotions: Learn personalized tools to self-soothe and create a sense of emotional safety and self-trust.
Feel More Alive: The more capacity you build to fully inhabit your body and be with emotions and sensations, the more pleasure, joy, connection, and aliveness you allow yourself to experience.
Express Yourself Authentically: As you release outdated emotional responses and survival patterns from the nervous system, you gain greater access to your true, authentic self that has always existed beneath it all.
Improve Your Health by Releasing Stress and Trauma Stored in the Body: Unprocessed emotions can manifest as illness, gut issues, tension, pain, or emotional distress. Somatic therapy supports you in releasing these trapped past experiences that turn into dis-ease.
Connect With Your Intuition Through Understanding the Subtle Language of Your Body: Learn to tune into your body’s signals, develop a relationship with your inner Self, and access the innate wisdom it holds to guide your decisions and life’s path.
Cultivate Presence: By learning to heal and regulate the nervous system, you develop the skills to live in the moment and bring more mindfulness and grounding into your everyday life.
Free Your Mind Through Feeling Your Feelings: Shift your focus from overthinking to trusting the innate guidance system of your emotions and body.
Love Your Body Fully: Move out of incessant self criticism and a negative body image, and into a loving relationship with your body – appreciating its sacredness, resilience and ancient wisdom. Learn to love your body and watch how it loves you back ten fold.
Rather than following a rigid structure, we allow the wisdom of your body and intuition to guide our sessions.
Being in the body can feel vulnerable at first, so we always move gently and at your pace.
The goal is not to force emotions out, but to create enough safety within yourself that your body naturally begins to soften, open, and let go of what no longer serves.
What our sessions may include
Through a combination of somatic practices, we will work together to explore and heal areas of stuckness, disconnection, or pain in your life. This might involve:
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Uncover and process stored emotions and be guided into a loving dialogue with them to understand them and set them free.
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Learn to regulate your nervous system and increase peace and presence through mind, body connection.
This may include breath work, guided meditations and visualization exercises, and sound and movement practices.
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Some examples include:
Learning how to allow the energy of your emotions intuitively guide your body to move and express what it is holding onto
Vocal expression (i.e. sighing, humming, intuitive sounding)
Loving self touch
Physical release (i.e. shaking, stomping, pushing against something)
Guided emotional catharsis (i.e. giving permission for the full expression of big emotions like rage or grief)
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sessions often begin with a grounding practice to help you come out of your mind and into your body. This may include breathwork, mindfulness, guided meditation, body scan, etc. From there, I support you in attuning to what is present within you that is asking for your attention.
Depending on your needs and comfort level, sessions may incorporate practices such as:
Breathwork
Guided meditation and visualization
Sound and movement practices
Intuitive movement and expression
Vocal expression and release (i.e. sighing, humming, crying, screaming into a pillow, intuitive sounding)
Loving self-touch
Physical release practices (i.e. shaking, stomping, pushing against something)
Sometimes healing involves allowing the body to safely express what it has been holding onto for years through movement, sound, tears, anger, trembling, or other forms of emotional release.
Everything we do is collaborative, entirely optional, and tailored to your unique needs and comfort level.
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Many of us learn to suppress, disconnect from, or push away our emotions in order to cope, survive, or feel safe. When the body finally feels supported enough to slow down, soften, and open, those emotions may naturally begin to surface and release.
Crying can be a healthy and healing way for the nervous system to process grief, stress, fear, anger, overwhelm, relief, or even joy. It is often a sign that the body no longer has to work so hard to hold everything in.
We never force emotional release. Rather, we create a safe and supportive space where your body can express and process emotions naturally, at its own pace. For some people this may look like tears, while for others it may look like trembling, laughter, anger, warmth, stillness, or a deep sense of calm and release.
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Somatic therapy can sometimes feel emotionally intense because it involves reconnecting with emotions, memories, and sensations that may have been suppressed or avoided for a long time. At times, you may temporarily feel more emotional, vulnerable, tired, activated, or sensitive as your nervous system begins processing unresolved stress or trauma.
For some people, slowing down and being in the body can initially feel unfamiliar or uncomfortable — especially if disconnecting from emotions has been a long-term survival strategy. This is why moving gently, building safety, and working at a pace that feels supportive to your nervous system is so important.
In our work together, I prioritize creating a safe, collaborative, and grounded space where you are never forced to move beyond what you feel ready for. Somatic therapy is not about pushing or forcing, but about slowly increasing your ability to feel, process, and stay connected to yourself with greater compassion and resilience.
Over time, many people experience greater emotional regulation, self-trust, presence, ease, fulfillment, and aliveness as a result of this work.
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One example of a somatic treatment is learning how to notice and stay present with emotions and sensations in the body. For example, if anxiety arises, instead of only talking about the anxious thoughts, we may gently explore how that anxiety feels physically in the body — such as tightness in the chest, tension in the stomach, heat, shaking, or a racing heart.
I support you in staying present with these sensations and listening for the wisdom your emotions may be trying to communicate. For example, they may be revealing an unmet need, asking for your attention, or showing you what may be ready to be processed, expressed, let go of, or taken action on.
Somatic therapy can also include practices such as:
Breathwork
Guided meditation and visualization
Movement and intuitive expression
Vocal release (i.e. sighing, humming, crying, screaming into a pillow)
Shaking or other physical release practices
Nervous system regulation tools
Learning how to stay present with emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them
Every session is tailored to your unique needs and comfort level.