Therapy Services

Individual therapy offers a place to slow down and listen more carefully to what is happening beneath the surface of your life.

You may be functioning well externally while privately feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, ashamed, or uncertain about what comes next. You may recognize recurring patterns but find that understanding them has not been enough to change them.

Together, we may explore your current circumstances, earlier experiences, relationships, emotional patterns, protective strategies, bodily responses, and the meanings you have made from what you have lived through.

Individual therapy may support you with:

• Trauma and post-traumatic stress responses
• Anxiety and chronic nervous-system activation
• Emotional overwhelm or shutdown
• Grief and complicated loss
• Relationship concerns
• Family-of-origin dynamics
• Shame and harsh self-criticism
• Boundaries and people-pleasing
• Identity and belonging
• Major life transitions
• Disconnection from emotions or bodily experience
• Questions of meaning, spirituality, and purpose

The work may be focused and practical, exploratory and depth-oriented, or a combination of both.

Trauma can affect much more than memory. It may shape the way you breathe, sleep, relate to others, respond to conflict, experience your body, or anticipate danger.

Some people experience obvious fear or intrusive memories. Others notice perfectionism, emotional numbness, chronic tension, digestive distress, difficulty resting, disconnection, irritability, or a strong need to remain in control.

Somatic Experiencing offers a gentle way to work with these responses by paying attention to what is happening in the nervous system in manageable amounts.

Rather than moving directly into the most painful part of an experience, we may begin by strengthening your ability to notice support, stability, choice, and moments of ease. We can then gradually approach difficult sensations or emotions without overwhelming the system.

This process is sometimes described as building capacity: increasing your ability to remain present with an experience while also staying connected to the here and now.

Somatic therapy may be helpful for:

• Childhood trauma
• Relational or attachment trauma
• Sexual trauma
• Medical trauma
• Accidents or frightening events
• Chronic stress
• Grief
• Anxiety and panic
• Freeze, collapse, or shutdown responses
• Difficulty identifying or expressing emotions
• Feeling disconnected from the body
• Repeated patterns of overactivation and exhaustion

Somatic work does not require touch. Any body-based practice will be explained and offered as an invitation rather than a demand. You can decline, pause, or redirect the process at any time.