Somatic Therapy
Making space for the ways your body experiences the world.
In-person somatic therapy in Ketchum, Idaho, and online throughout Idaho, California, and South Carolina.
Sometimes you can understand exactly why you feel a certain way and still find yourself responding in familiar patterns.
You might know you're safe but still feel tense or on edge. You might recognize that you need rest but struggle to slow down. Or you may notice yourself becoming overwhelmed, shut down, or disconnected without fully understanding why.
Somatic therapy offers a way to explore these experiences with curiosity, paying attention to the relationship between your thoughts, emotions, body, and nervous system.
What Is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that includes awareness of the body and nervous system alongside thoughts, emotions, and personal experiences.
Stress, anxiety, and difficult experiences can influence how we feel physically as well as emotionally. You might notice tension, changes in breathing, shifts in energy, or difficulty feeling present and connected.
Rather than focusing only on why something happens, somatic therapy also makes room to notice what's happening in the moment.
Together, we might explore how your body responds to stress, what helps you feel supported, and how to recognize your needs before overwhelm builds.
The goal isn't to feel calm all the time. It's to develop a more compassionate understanding of your responses and greater choice in how you care for yourself.
Working With Your Nervous System, Not Against It
For people who are sensitive, deeply feeling, or neurodivergent, everyday life can ask a great deal of the nervous system.
Sensory demands, emotional intensity, masking, and the effort of continually adapting to expectations can leave little room to notice what you actually need.
My approach to somatic therapy is gentle, relational, and individualized. Together, we can explore how stress shows up in your body, what happens when you become overwhelmed, and what helps you feel supported.
For some people, this includes noticing physical sensations. For others, we might begin with emotions, movement, imagery, or simply identifying what feels comfortable and what doesn't.
There is no expectation that you close your eyes, focus inward, or participate in exercises that don't feel right for you. We adapt the work to your sensory preferences, boundaries, and ways of processing.
Somatic awareness can also be woven into trauma-focused therapy, including EMDR, when appropriate.
You don't have to push past your limits to make meaningful changes.
Finding a Way Forward That Works for You
You may have spent a long time trying to understand why certain experiences feel so difficult, even when you know what you should be able to do.
Somatic therapy offers space to approach those experiences differently—with curiosity, compassion, and attention to what your body and nervous system may be communicating.
Whether you're navigating anxiety, overwhelm, trauma-related distress, or the exhaustion of constantly adapting, we can explore what a more supportive way forward might look like.
You don't have to figure it all out before reaching out.
I offer in-person somatic therapy in Ketchum, Idaho, and online throughout Idaho, California, and South Carolina.
