Somatic therapy can support clients who understand their patterns but still feel stress, anxiety, or trauma responses in their bodies.
How Somatic Therapy Works at Bodhi
Somatic therapy at Bodhi is offered in a collaborative, gentle, and trauma-informed manner. Sessions remain talk therapy, with added attention to what is happening in the body. Clients choose what to try and can pause or change direction at any time.
In somatic therapy, clinicians may:
help clients notice and name physical sensations as they arise
teach grounding skills that support the body in the present moment
offer breathwork or gentle movement when clients want to try it
build tolerance for difficult feelings gradually
explain how the nervous system responds to stress and what helps it settle
move between difficult material and steadier ground so clients do not get stuck in distress
adapt the work to each client's sensory needs and relationship with their body
Bodhi's clinicians adapt somatic work for neurodivergent clients, including differences in interoception and sensory needs, and for LGBTQ+ clients, including those whose relationship with their body is shaped by dysphoria, medical care, or discrimination. Somatic therapy at Bodhi does not involve touch.
Who Somatic Therapy May Help
Somatic therapy may be helpful for individuals who are:
• coping with trauma-related symptoms, including childhood and relational trauma
• experiencing anxiety, panic, or a nervous system that stays on high alert
• feeling numb, disconnected, or "not in their body"
• managing chronic stress, burnout, or overwhelm
• navigating grief and loss
• experiencing physical tension tied to stress
• finding that talk therapy alone has not fully helped
Somatic approaches can be combined with other therapies at Bodhi and are not a replacement for other care. [Add specific modalities your clinicians use, such as Somatic Experiencing, sensorimotor, or mindfulness-based approaches, and which clinicians offer somatic therapy.