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 thats 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.
Somatic therapy works by regulating you're nervous system, which is why it is often more effective than traditional talk therapy. Instead of just talking about experiences we focus on physcial sensations, emotions, and nervous system responses and where they live in your body.
By working with your brain and your body, somatic therapy can help regulate your nervous system, decrease anxiety, release trauma responses and create lasting emotional changes. This is deep nervous system regulation and can help release trauma, work to regulate your system and change your body's response to stressors.
Somatic and Trauma intensives are for high functioning, burnout adults, moms, teenagers, who feel stuck even after trying talk therapy. It may be a good fit for you if you have
Intensives allow for longer, focused sessions that support deeper processing and faster progress.
Talk therapy focuses on thoughts, insight, and understanding your experiences.
Somatic therapy goes deeper by working with your body’s responses, things like tension, overwhelm, and fight-or-flight patterns. Instead of just talking about emotions, we help you actually process and move through them.
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! We are taking clients across Michigan and South Carolina VIRTUALLY for anxiety, burnout, trauma, life transitions, and nervous system regulation. Services for Adults and Adolescents.
Yes! Virtual trauma therapy across Michigan. 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 talking clients across South Carolina including Charleston, Charlotte, Greenville, Columbia, and Mount Pleasant virtually
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 session we work at your pace. I am tracking how you respond and watching your window of tolerance. You're the boss of your nervous system which means if it feels too overwhelming you can say stop. This is a collaborative experience. I am always checking in too so you don't have to feel too in control or over whelmed, or worried about what ifs. Somatic therapy is slow, intentional and deep.
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.
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