Somatic Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma, and Overwhelm

For many people, anxiety, stress, trauma, and emotional shutdown don’t show up primarily as “thoughts.”

They show up as:

• a tight chest
• a frozen throat
• a buzzing nervous system
• a sense of collapse or tension
• difficulty being present
• feeling scattered, numb, or overactivated
• being easily thrown off in relationships
• an internal pressure you can’t name but always feel

Somatic therapy creates space to slow down, reconnect, and work with what your nervous system has been holding.

It’s a different kind of therapy — not abstract, not overly analytical, not detached from your real experience.

It’s grounded.
It’s embodied.
And it helps you find your way back to yourself.

At its core, somatic therapy is about bringing the body back into the conversation.

When difficult experiences, stress, relational injuries, or unprocessed emotions aren’t resolved, the body often adapts by tightening, guarding, numbing, or bracing. Over time, this can feel like:

• “I can’t relax.”
• “I can’t get my feet under me.”
• “I keep shutting down.”
• “I feel everything too much.”
• “I feel nothing at all.”

Somatic therapy helps you:

• regulate and settle your nervous system
• reduce overwhelm and reactivity
• stay grounded in conflict
• hold stronger boundaries
• reconnect to emotional clarity
• access presence instead of panic or shutdown
• move through experiences rather than getting stuck in them

If you’ve tried talk therapy before but still feel stuck in your body, somatic work may be the missing piece. It doesn’t replace talk therapy — it deepens it.

My approach is steady, relational, attuned, and grounded.

I’m not here to push a technique on you or take you somewhere you aren’t ready to go.

Instead, we move at a pace that lets your nervous system settle, open, and reorganize safely.

Sessions might include:

• Noticing what your body is doing in real time — where tension lives, where you collapse, what activates you, what softens you.
• Tracking the moment-to-moment shifts — so your system can learn new responses instead of falling into the same patterns.
• Letting emotion rise in a way that feels supported and contained — not pushed or avoided.
• Slowing down so clarity can emerge — in order to create the conditions for your internal world to reorganize instead of falling into overwhelm.
• Integrating the past with the present — so that old patterns stop driving reactions you don’t want.
• Working through relationships, conflict, and attachment dynamics — somatic therapy is deeply impactful for people whose emotions get tangled in relational patterns.

This is not catharsis.

This is not emotional intensity for the sake of intensity.

This is learned, grounded presence.

In addition to somatic therapy's foundational role in my work, I also draw from:

• EMDR-informed methods
• experiential and depth-oriented modalities
• attachment and relational therapy
• nervous system regulation strategies
• internal parts work (when helpful)
   

We use these only when they support what your body, emotions, and experience are already opening toward.

They are tools — not the center of the work.

The center is you, your nervous system, and the process of becoming more grounded, clear, and connected.

You may be a good fit if you:

• feel overwhelmed, anxious, shut down, or numb
• carry stress in your body
• have a history of trauma or chronic tension
• struggle to stay grounded in conflict or connection
• want to understand your internal world beyond just thoughts
• are tired of talking in circles
• want therapy that actually changes how you feel, not just how you think

You do not need to have a trauma diagnosis or know the “origin story” of your overwhelm.

This work meets you where you are.

As your system settles, people often report:

• a clearer mind
• less reactivity
• more emotional bandwidth
• trust in their own internal cues
• more steadiness in relationships
• the ability to breathe and feel present
• a deeper sense of connection to themselves

It’s not about becoming a different person.
It’s about becoming more yourself — with greater ease, clarity, and capacity.