Unfiltered answers about somatic therapy & trauma intensives

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Talk therapy doesn’t always work for anxiety or trauma because insight alone isn’t always enough to create change. While it can help you understand your experiences and feel validated, it may not fully address how stress and trauma are stored in the body. 

Many people understand and can explain their patterns but they are still stuck in them. 

This is where somatic therapy is different. Utilizing techniques like EMDR, Brainspotting, and Deep Brain Reorienting, we work with the nervous system to process and regulate how your body responds to stress.  This is where deeper and lasting changes take place. 

If you have tried talk therapy and feel like nothing is changing, it's not you that's broken; it's the approach.   

Somatic therapy is a body based therapy that focuses on how trauma lives in the body, not just your thoughts.   

This is deep, active nervous system rebuilding. Instead of giving you mental checklists to manage your chaos, we work directly with your physiology to change how your body reflexively responds to triggers 

Somatic and trauma intensives are built for ambitious, high-functioning adults, adolescents, and burnt-out moms who feel completely stuck even after years of traditional talk therapy.
An intensive is the right fit for you if:
You are a mom drowning in overstimulation: You love your kids fiercely, but by the end of the day, the noise, the clutter, and the constant demands leave your nervous system completely fried. You find yourself snapping, losing your temper, or utterly collapsing into numbness the second the house finally goes quiet.
Your logical mind is talking in circles: You can easily analyze and explain your patterns, but your body is still stuck in a perpetual loop of chronic anxiety, dread, or a tight chest.
You are tired of surface-level venting: You don't want to spend months or years rehashing the script of your past in weekly 50-minute increments; you want deep, accelerated healing in a focused amount of time.
You feel numb, braced, or constantly on edge: Your system is stuck in an automated survival response, and you are ready to stop managing symptoms and actually rewire your baseline. 

Intensives bypass the surface-level talk and allow for longer, highly focused sessions that give your nervous system the luxury of time it needs to drop its armor, process deeply, and make rapid progress.

Talk therapy focuses on thoughts, insight, and understanding your experiences.

Somatic therapy goes deeper by working with your body’s responses, the places where tension, raw panic, and fight-or-flight loops physically nest in your body. We don't just talk about your emotions for 50 minutes and send you on your way. We actually clear the physiological backlog so your system can drop its armor 

If you’ve felt stuck in traditional therapy, somatic work can help shift patterns at a nervous system level.

Less talk and more healing

A trauma intensive is an extended therapy session designed for deeper, more focused healing.

Unlike traditional 50-minute sessions, intensives allow more time to process without interruption. This gives your nervous system the space it needs to fully work through experiences.

Many people choose intensives when they’re ready to move beyond slow, weekly progress and create meaningful change.

Yes. Trauma can directly cause both anxiety and burnout, especially when the nervous system stays in a constant state of stress. Unprocessed trauma keeps the body in “fight, flight, or freeze,” which can show up as chronic anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and difficulty coping with daily life.

Over time, this ongoing stress response can lead to burnout, feeling overwhelmed, on edge, overstimulated, disconnected, and mentally drained, even if life looks “fine” on the outside. Many people experiencing anxiety or burnout are actually dealing with underlying trauma that hasn’t been fully processed.

Trauma-focused therapies like EMDR, Brainspotting, and somatic therapy help address the root cause, not just the symptoms.

Yes! I am currently accepting clients across Michigan including Metro Detroit, Troy, Birmingham, Royal Oak, Traverse City, Grand Rapids, across the upper Penninsula, Ann Arbor, and more.  When working Virtually you can pick the spot in your house where you feel the safest, calmest, and most relaxed.  Why add more stress to coming to an office when you do your best healing at home

Yes! I am currently accepting clients across South Carolina including Charleston, Rock Hill,  Greenville, Columbia, and Mount Pleasant.  Telehealth only

Yes! We are taking clients across Michigan and South Carolina via telehealth for anxiety, burnout, trauma, life transitions, and nervous system regulation.  Services for Adults and Adolescents.

YES! All of these somatic whole body approaches have been shown to reduce trauma associated symptoms including hypervigilance, distressing dreams and memories, and attached emotions.  Plus they can work for things like substance use, anxiety, depression, and so much more. They work with your nervous system to clear the distress instead of just working in your thoughts.  

 Yes. Weekend availability is offered for trauma intensives, including Saturdays and Sundays. 

In every session, you are the boss of your own nervous system. I carefully track your physical responses to ensure we are clearing stress without overloading your system. This is an active, collaborative partnership. If a process feels too intense, you call the shots including wanting to stop. Somatic work is intentional, deep, and deeply respectful of your body's boundaries.

Somatic work is a whole-body experience which means that your whole body may feel tired, hungry, thirsty, relaxed, or even heavy after a somatic session.  We suggest that you spend the rest of the day engaging in active rest, journaling, and self-care.