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Bay Area Somatic Therapy Center
Trauma-informed • Body-based • Community care
Individual therapy
Individual somatic therapy offers a supportive space to explore patterns of stress, emotion, and meaning, at a pace that honors your nervous system. Our work is body-based, relational, and informed by trauma theory, while also supporting growth, clarity, and greater ease in daily life.
Nervous system support
Support the body in gently shifting out of survival states and into greater steadiness and flexibility.
Mind-body integration
Build awareness of how thoughts, emotions, and sensations interact so insight can become embodied change.
Trauma-informed pacing
Move slowly and collaboratively, without re-living trauma or overwhelming the nervous system.
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Who individual therapy may support
Stress, anxiety, and nervous system overwhelm
Relationship and attachment patterns
Burnout, life transitions, and identity exploration
Shame, self-criticism, and emotional reactivity
Complex trauma and CPTSD (when relevant)
Those seeking deeper self-awareness, integration, and embodied growth
What is somatic psychotherapy?
Somatic psychotherapy is a body-based approach to therapy that understands the mind and body as deeply interconnected. Rather than focusing only on thoughts or insight, somatic therapy works with sensation, emotion, movement, and nervous system responses as pathways for change.
This approach can be supportive for a wide range of concerns, from managing stress and anxiety, to navigating relationships and life transitions, to deepening self-awareness and emotional resilience.
Somatic therapy is grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and body-based psychology. These frameworks recognize that experience shapes not only how we think, but how we feel, respond, and organize ourselves in the world.
Why somatic psychotherapy can be helpful
Somatic therapy can be helpful when patterns feel stuck at a level deeper than thought alone. By working with the nervous system and bodily experience, therapy can support regulation, flexibility, and integration, whether someone is healing from trauma or seeking greater balance and presence in their life.
Over time, this work can support reduced reactivity, increased emotional range, clearer boundaries, and a greater sense of connection to self and others, without needing to relive or analyze experiences in detail.
When stress or trauma lives in the body
Stressful or overwhelming experiences, whether acute or ongoing, can shape how the nervous system responds long after the event has passed. This is especially true when experiences exceed our capacity to process them in the moment.
This can show up as chronic tension, numbness, hypervigilance, shutdown, emotional reactivity, or difficulty feeling safe in relationships. These patterns are not signs of something being "wrong," they are intelligent adaptations the body made to survive.
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