What is Somatic Therapy?

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Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that integrates talk therapy with physical awareness and movement. It focuses on how trauma, stress, and emotion are stored in the body and helps clients access healing through breathwork, sensation tracking, and mindful movement. This method supports nervous system regulation and can help with anxiety, PTSD, and emotional overwhelm by reconnecting clients with their body’s natural capacity for balance and resilience.

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Understanding Somatic and Body-Oriented Therapies

“Every thought, feeling, and sensation within your body throughout the day offers you an opportunity to love... to connect with love.” — Aletheia Luna

At The Body-Based Mindfulness Center, we honor the deep connection between body, mind, and spirit in the healing process. Our therapists and holistic practitioners work together to help you reconnect with your body through both clinical and complementary practices such as yoga, massage, self-defense, dance, and more.

What Are Body-Based or Somatic Therapies? 

Body-based therapies are experiential approaches that focus on the body’s role in emotional and psychological healing.

These methods help you:
  • Track internal sensations and body cues
  • Use breath and movement to regulate stress
  • Explore facial expression, posture, and impulse
  • Understand how trauma is stored—and released—through the body

These practices may include touch-based therapies like massage, or movement-based modalities like tai chi, trauma-informed yoga, or expressive arts. Whether through psychotherapy or bodywork, the goal is to help you become more present, embodied, and empowered in your healing journey.

 

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Why We Use a Body-Based Approach in Psychotherapy

Traditional talk therapy often centers on thoughts, behaviors, and memories. But many clients come to us after finding those methods insufficient. That’s because trauma and chronic stress often manifest physically—through tension, pain, anxiety, flashbacks, or numbness.


Our trauma-informed mental health professionals integrate somatic techniques directly into therapy. We help clients notice and shift patterns of holding, defense, and dysregulation, and build somatic tools to cultivate resilience, regulation, and wellbeing.

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Why Add Holistic Healing Practices?

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) supports body-based practices like massage, mindfulness, yoga, qigong, and breathwork as effective for managing mental health symptoms. At our center, we offer these services in a safe, trauma-aware environment that’s more accessible than traditional studios, spas, or gyms.


Our holistic offerings allow you to explore what healing feels like in your body—beyond the therapy office—and can serve as sustainable, long-term self-care tools for your ongoing wellbeing.

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