Somatic Therapy in New Mexico, Colorado, & Florida

Your body is part of your story—and it needs to be part of your healing, too.

Your body is constantly communicating with you. A tightening in your chest, a clenched jaw, the urge to move, freeze, hide, push away, or make yourself smaller can all be meaningful information.

Somatic therapy invites us to slow down and become curious about these experiences—not as problems to fix, but as ways your nervous system communicates.

Listening to what your body needs

Somatic therapy recognizes the connection between your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, and physical experience. Rather than focusing only on what you're thinking or talking about, we also pay attention to what you're experiencing in your body.

Sometimes traumatic or overwhelming experiences involve an action or response that wasn't possible at the time. You may have wanted to run, fight, push someone away, yell, protect yourself, reach for support, or move toward safety, or instead you had to freeze, stay quiet, or push through, in order to survive.

Somatic work can gently explore whether your system is still carrying some of those unfinished protective responses. Rather than recreating what happened, we pay attention to what your body may be asking for in the here and now.