Somatic Therapy in Houston & across Texas

Working with your nervous system For deeper, lasting change

Ever wonder why certain changes just won’t stick?

You go to therapy. You work so hard. You battle the unhelpful thoughts.
Somehow, no matter how hard you try, you still feel stuck.


Here’s the thing:

When your nervous system is stuck on “on,” you can’t just think your way out of it. If you could, it probably would have worked by now.

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Virtual Somatic Therapy in Houston to help you feel the difference between survival mode and actually living


Through targeted techniques, I’ve seen somatic therapy help clients:

  • Take the first real breath they’ve felt in years

  • Actually drop their shoulders from their ears

  • Build loving relationships with their bodies, which are no longer just a source of stress and pain

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What does somatic therapy help with?

  • If you struggle with anxiety or perfectionism, you know the impact it has on your body. After a while, the tension may even start to feel normal.

    Somatic therapy helps with anxiety so you can:

    • remember what peace feels like in your body

    • retrain your default setting to focus on the enjoyable sensations, not just the difficult ones

    • step out of indecision and connect with your sense of self-trust

  • When traumatic events keep you stuck in survival mode, it can be hard to even know what “normal” is supposed to feel like.

    Through somatic therapy, trauma symptoms can improve by:

    • Allowing your body to recognize the (relative) safety here and now

    • Helping your nervous system move through incomplete cycles of fight, flight, and freeze

    • Building a sense of self that incorporates what happened to you, but isn’t built around it

  • When you’re used to giving up your needs for others, it becomes a familiar dance that’s hard to step out of.

    Somatic therapy for chronic guilt and people-pleasing can:

    • Help you get comfortable identifying and acting from your own wants and needs

    • Feel the difference between being selfish and taking necessary care of yourself

    • Stop the guilt spirals that happen even when you didn’t do anything wrong

FAQ

What is Somatic Therapy?

Somatic therapy involves working with your nervous system in an embodied way to help you get unstuck from painful patterns and cycles, allowing you to improve your relationship with yourself and others.

  • Somatic therapy is experiential

    In somatic therapy, we respond together to what is happening in the here-and-now in the therapy room.

    You’ll still talk about your life outside of therapy, things you want to improve, or what happened to you that week. But from there, we actually work with your nervous system in the present.

    So you’ll share how you felt about something in the past when it happened… and then we’ll pause to work with what’s happening in your nervous system right now, as you’re in therapy.

    This allows you to mindfully experience change within a supported relationship and environment.

    When you can experience a pattern shifting in the present, you start building new wiring for long-term change.

  • Somatic therapy is flexible

    There are so many ways to approach somatic work based on what fits a particular client’s needs. That’s one of the things I love about it!

    In somatic therapy, we can start with trauma or start with what happened to you today (they’re not not connected!). We can have whole sessions sitting down, only moving subtly, and some sessions with more standing up and activation. Sometimes we’re concrete (“my stomach is gurgling and my heart rate is slowing down”) and other times we use metaphors (“my heart is an anchor at the bottom of the ocean”).

    If your goal for the day is just to feel calmer in your body, we can do that. If it’s to leave with tools to protect your energy, we can do that too.

    In somatic sessions, I often hear feedback like, ‘Wow, I love how we can really just roll with whatever comes up!’

    That’s the beauty of somatic work. It’s ready to meet you right where you are so you can get where you want to be in a way that actually makes sense for you.

  • Somatic therapy allows for deeper processing

    We all need coping skills to get through the immediate moments in our lives. If you don’t feel like you have those, we’ll start there.

    But coping skills can only take you so far. I want you to have a life you’re not just coping with or managing. I want you to have a life you largely enjoy (while sometimes also coping and managing!).

    In a somatic training, Dr. Abi Blakeslee stated that ~80% of the information we take in is implicit (beneath our awareness).

    Somatic therapy allows clients to access implicit understanding, memories, and feelings so they can process nonverbally as well as verbally. So their nervous system can actually align with what their logical brain knows to be true.

    If you’re someone who’s spent a lot of time trying to convince yourself that things are okay, that you’re enough, and that what happens to you matters, but you still feel stuck, I promise it’s not because you’re doing something wrong.

    You deserve the chance to feel what can shift when you process on a deeper level.

If you’re curious how somatic therapy could help with anxiety, people-pleasing, or trauma, reach out today to schedule a consultation.

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