Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

Carolyn Knutson LPC, LMT (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Somatic Experiencing-- This type of therapy views the body as a source of wisdom and a path to healing and self-awareness. It uses mindfulness as a way to study present experience, the holding patterns in our physical form, and the core beliefs that shape us. When we are aware of our patterns, it frees us to live more full, authentic lives. This approach is non-pathological and recognizes that people are always seeking wholeness.

Gabriella Losada (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

Our bodies hold so much information that we aren't always (or can't be) attuned to. In session somatic work might look like doing body scans, grounding exercises, small physical movement, guided visualizations, or just pausing and noticing what your body is doing and how it’s feeling. Sometimes with neurodivergence, chronic pain, or trauma our bodies aren’t always a comfortable or accessible place to be and if that is a concern, we can collaborate to find a component that works for you.

Nova (Stephenie) Knutson (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, CHT

Somatic therapies operate on the principle that body and mind are co-arising and co-influencing and that attending to the body is integral to the healing process. Untended emotional challenges often manifest in physical pain and dis-ease. As a certified Hakomi Therapist I have specialized training and over 16 years of experience in counseling with a somatic/body centered orientation.

Katrina Clark (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

MSW, LCSW

I integrate body-based processes and techniques to help you release nervous system stress, blocked emotions and stored traumas in the body.

Kristine Zappa (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, R-DMT

My MA is in Somatic Counseling with a concentration in both Body Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy from Naropa University. Additionally, I am a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT) through the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). I am currently training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, which I integrate into my practice.

Alicia Banister

Professional Counselor Associate

My background is in somatic-oriented therapies, including Craniosacral therapy, massage, and therapeutic yoga. Much of my practice involves integrating the body into your lived experience, through movement, experience, and nervous system regulation.

Peter Addy (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

PhD, LPC, LMHC

As a therapist with expertise in somatic therapy, I am trained in body-based approaches to healing. I emphasize the mind-body connection and help clients release stored tension and trauma through the wisdom of the body. With specialized training, I support clients in their healing journey using somatic techniques that address the interconnectedness of body, mind, and emotions.

Allison Batty-Capps (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

MA, LMFT

I am trained in mind/body therapy, yoga, internal family systems, and mindfulness practices which neuroscience research has shown is effective in treating depression, trauma, and anxiety.

Marcy Irene Jenks (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, RN, LPC, LMHC

"Soma" is the Greek word meaning "living body". Too often we are disconnected from our body's wisdoms and might ignore the wealth of insight and understanding the body has for our lives. Somatic approaches to therapy involve exploring and including the body's experiences in each session, understanding that our bodies, even when in pain or discomfort, can be a resource and ally towards living a fulfilling life.

E.K. Frey (she / they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism, with Resmaa Menakem and Carlin Quinn (January - December 2021) Ongoing group work (2021 - present).

Arrival Counseling annie dolle LCSW (she/her/hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

As a student of Hakomi and AEDP I am focused on the most gentle, effective, and powerful tools for self awareness and choice. I believe that we can attune to our bodies, minds, emotions, moods, memories, beliefs, and spirit to move towards greater inner peace and joy. Carefully attuned body awareness is an effective tool in driving this process. This background makes me an excellent choice for integration therapy.

Sarah Howeth (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A. in Marriage, Couple and Family Therapy

Present-moment experience, like thoughts, body sensations, feelings, memories, etc., is explored to elucidate “core material” (unconscious ways of being in the world), and transform it, often through mindful experiments.

Brittany Neighbours (she/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

I have specialized training in Contemporary Reichian Somatic (Orgone) Therapy, and have been part of a program that includes group and individual supervision for this approach since 2017.

Jordan Curtis (He/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, PCA, NCC

I have been trained in Hakomi, a somatic-based psychotherapy. I utilize a somatic understanding and techniques as part of a holistic way of understanding and treating the self. In therapy, we will include attention to your body and sensations as part of your self-awareness and ability to emotionally regulate. We may experiment with postures, spatial dynamics, movement, and touch as part of the therapy process. My somatic approach is also informed by polyvagal theory & somatic experiencing.

Trish Nicholson (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

Board-certified (NCC)

Brittany England

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

MA in Counseling

My Mind-Body approach that is rooted in somatic based interventions, meridian tapping techniques (FasterEFT & EFT), NLP, mindfulness and neuroscience. This approach allows us to work with the subconscious mind which is where your internal operating system lives. We will work together to help you tune into your somatic (body/physical) experience to help you gain more awareness of your internal experience. This holistic approach invites in the possibility for deeper healing and transformation.

Kimberly Christensen

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

PHD, LMFT

Somatic therapy recognizes the connection between your body and your psyche. The body is where our earliest emotional patterns were formed. The body is also where we hold trauma and abuse. By working directly with your body in psychotherapy, connecting sensations and symptoms to psychic processes, we work towards changing and resetting your nervous system to support re-inhabiting yourself at a cellular level.

Palma Corral Sotelo (she /her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC, PCA

We will use somatic therapy modalities (body focused) to expand your awareness of your physical sensations and the meanings they hold for you. We will work on settling your nervous system to help you feel safer in your own skin. We will explore how different situations, places or people affect your nervous system using the framework of poly vagal theory.

Jennie Towne

Licensed Professional Counselor

MEd, LPC, LMHC

As a Hakomi graduate, I utilize Hakomi principles and techniques in my work.

Vlasi Vlahosotiros (he/him/his)

Somatic Practitioner

BBTRS®

In the Western World, there is a dominant myth that the mind and body are separate. I specialize in breaking down that myth, integrating the mind and body for the treatment of anxiety, pain, depression, and a myriad of other conditions/motivations. I am a certified BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release (BBTRS®) practitioner and have completed 260+ hours of training through the BBTRS® Institute. My approach is centered around mindful, compassionate somatic awareness.

Jeanell Innerarity (She/Her)

Professional Counselor

MA, QMHP-C, LMT, CHT

As a bodyworker with over twenty years of somatic experience, everything I do is rooted in the intelligence and wisdom of the body. I utilize Processwork methods of exploring body symptoms and chronic pains and illnesses as part of your life path, uncovering the wisdom and insight contained within your body experience.

Eden Baron-Williams (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Everything in life is a physical, mental, social, and spiritual experience. Yet, many of us are disconnected from our bodies. I believe that our bodies are vessels of wisdom from which we hold our experiences of pain, joy, belonging, intuition, and information. Through the process of slowing down and noticing, we can uncover a well of resources you already have within you, as well as heal from a foundational level. I am a Certified Somatic Attachment Therapist

Angelica Nenchev (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

CADC I, MA, Professional Counselor Associate

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach for healing trauma. Trauma usually occurs when there’s too much happening, too fast, too soon. This can leave us feeling powerless, resentful, and stuck in unhelpful patterns that may be too rigid or too chaotic. SE techniques help the nervous system to discharge traumatic energy that gets stored in the body so you can move beyond survival mode.

Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A. Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy

Lolo Haha (he/him)

Somatic Practitioner

M.A., Diploma of Process Work

I am trained in Process Work, which uses somatic awareness practices to work with body symptoms, nighttime dreams, relational difficulties, vision for the world, and more. Through embodiment of that which attracts or disturbs us, we can often gain insights that can bring new ways of being and living our lives more fully. Embodiment can allow for a more rapid integration of these learnings.

Margaret McNeal (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

The body is an essential aspect of our self and wellbeing. Modern science echoes the wisdom held in many ancient traditions that the body is integral to our psychology, that psyche and soma are not separate. Somatic work can powerfully reveal and heal hidden aspects of our experience through exploration of movement, posture, and symptoms. Somatic work is also a useful complement to trauma work and IFS/"parts work" that helps facilitate regulation and expansion of the self.

Portland Therapy Project

Licensed Professional Counselor

All clinician and supervisors work through the lens of somatic therapy. We believe understanding our whole self starts with holding space for all the emotions and experience of the body.

Bethany Ingram (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

We must learn to truly feel our emotions rather than "thinking about feeling them". Our emotions live in the body, and I encourage connection to the body in order to get to know ourselves and move through the emotional pain we experience. Our body, especially our nervous system, can teach us about what we need to feel safe and find connection with ourselves and others. I teach my clients to "befriend their nervous system" to learn how to respond to triggers and increase safety.

Jessica Besner (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, M.S.

Studied somatic methods during my training, including Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for Complex PTSD. Attended body-centered conferences in early training. Currently completing Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate and hold a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Treatment, both from the Embody Lab.

Courtney Burns

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

I am certified in The Trauma Conscious Yoga method (TCYM). Incorporating this somatic modality into session can look a number of different ways; to exploring where a particular emotion is “landing” in the body, to engaging in breath work as well as postures that can be helpful in learning to regulate your central nervous system.

Rose Novak (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A. Professional Mental Health Counseling

I am currently receiving supervision from a Somatic Psychotherapy Mental Health Professional, and recently completed a an internship program with a somatically oriented practice. Over the years, I have gained knowledge and experience in healing stored trauma in the body. My approach is slow and gentle, we will practice learning how to listen to your body's cues and innate wisdom.

Julianna Vermeys

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, NCC

Each of us has the potential to be fully present by utilizing the vast communication potential of the body. I am highly skilled at utilizing the awareness of the sensation in one's body to guide a richer understanding of one's emotions, reactions and experience during therapy.

James Reling (he/him/his)

Licensed Professional Counselor

#C7430

Trauma (from big events to the accumulation of smaller invalidating experiences) is stored in the body, as is resilience and the potential for healing. By learning how to listen to and follow your body's cues, you can heal in ways that may be less accessible to traditional talk therapy. I am currently in a three-year training to become a Somatic Experiencing Practioner.

MereAnn Reid

Licensed Professional Counselor

Registered Play Therapist, Certified Adoption Therapist

Our bodies & nervous systems are our best tools to navigate the world around us. A felt sense of safety, connection, and manageable stress are based on input from the environment, internal sensations, and relationships. These inform the skills & resources we draw on to navigate challenge, meet new experiences, and handle big feelings. When we (or our kids) don't have the skills we need, we do the best we can; therapy helps build new tools, expanding felt safety & resilience internally.

Fatema Rashid (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, Professional Counselor Associate, R6840

I integrate somatic awareness and mindfulness into my practice with clients who are open to a more holistic approach to therapy. Through guided meditation, breathing exercises, and other core mindfulness techniques, you will learn to identify and express emotions stored in the body. You will also learn to manage negative thought patterns, cultivate self-compassion, and connect with others (and yourself) on a deeper level.

Holly Wigmore (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS, NCC

Embodied practices that move beyond talk therapy are vital to how I help clients move towards healing trauma. Our bodies hold trauma and also hold the keys to our healing. Through somatic interventions, we will get creative in how we can use your own innate resilience to connect with your core self and move toward the best version of you available.

Marc•francis Otto (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, RSMT/E

Somatic refers to the lived experience of the body. Not just having a body, but living in a body. As all our patterns are grounded in our body, we won't just talk about what's going on. Instead, we'll attend to how your body has uniquely adapted to your life. We'll focus on sensations, feelings, and movements in helping you find your greater wholeness.

Ayala Parker (she/they)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Karin Pfeiffer-Robinson (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A., NCC

Our bodies hold so much wisdom. And yet, many of us have learned how to disconnect from them as a way to avoid feeling our pain and other intense emotions. It is possible to rebuild your connection, gradually and safely, with the feelings your body holds. I often weave together somatic therapy with parts work, informed by Internal Family Systems therapy, and find that this helps clients access their experience in deep, meaningful ways.

Christine Finucane (She/her/hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, SUDP, LICSW, SEP

Similar to mindfulness, Somatic therapy, also known as Somatic Experiencing, is a body focused approach to healing. Research has shown that unresolved trauma is energy that is stored in our body. Learning to befriend our bodies and to notice when we are caught in a traumatic reaction in our nervous system such as fight, flight, freeze is the first step to healing. Please see my website for more information.

Kelsey Huber (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

LPC-A

Micah Drlikova

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Body centered therapy emphasizes the importance of the mind/body connection. Often, we forget to simply “be” present in our bodies. By tuning into our body, we can learn how to inhabit the full spectrum of our human experience and let our body be an ally to our journey of healing, by simply listening to its wisdom.

Shannon Rice (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, SEP

I have 3 years of training in Somatic Experiencing, a world-renowned trauma-informed therapeutic modality. This includes acute PTSD, as well as sexual, complex, relational, or developmental trauma. You will learn how trauma works and how to regulate yourself when triggered to feel more empowered in yourself and in the world. My goal is to help you feel more "at home" in your body and learn how to trust your internal cues.

Terra Anderson (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, R-DMT

My guess is that when it comes to sex and intimacy, you'd like to actually feel progress, not just talk about it. Right? My approach to therapy inherently includes your body as a gateway to knowing yourself and your needs on a deeper level. In our work together I will help you track your felt experience by way of your breath, sensation, and movement to create shifts on an embodied level.

Jen Yerty (She/They)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CADC I

I have training in somatic and mindfulness techniques pioneered by Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, and Peter Levine. I have specific training in Somatic Experiencing for trauma processing. This practice involves a lot of silence as we slow down and listen to your system and how it reacts to the world around you. We begin to notice your system gently pendulating from positive to negative and back, which is how systems are actually supposed to work.

Dr. Sarah Kendrick (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

PMH-C, CCTS

I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that the body mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom

Haley Bosco Doyle (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A.

Erika Nelson (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Connecting the mind, body and spirit can be essential in the healing and growth process. I utilize many somatic approaches in order to support better integration of the change we are trying to create. This can look very different and is individualized for the person and situation.

Sara Rosenau (she/they)

Clinical Social Work Associate

PhD, CSWA

I am trained in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy (Level One). Hakomi understands that change comes not from our effort, but from our awareness. Hakomi uses mindfulness—a state of relaxed, nonjudgmental awareness–to study, activate, and directly experience the root causes underlying our habitual feelings, thoughts and behavior.

Camillia de la Garza Thompson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, CMA

My ability to explore the body-mind interface is supported by years studying dance movement therapies, a degree in movement analysis from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in New York City, training in Hakomi and other modalities. I am also a self-proclaimed interpersonal neurobiology geek and love bringing this psychoeducation into my work :)

Melinda Norman (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

I blend a mixture of energy work with my training in PSIP (psychedelic somatic interactional psychotherapy---which can be done non medicated) to assist clients in releasing stored trauma from their body.

Caitlin Truitt (she/her/hers)

Clinical Social Work Associate

MSW, LSWAIC, MHCA

Traumatic experiences are not processed like other memories. The brain does not assign a "time stamp" to trauma memories like it does to other past experiences, which causes our bodies to operate as if that trauma is still happening. This causes our nervous systems to go haywire and wreaks havoc on our bodies. Somatic approaches, like polyvagal theory, heal trauma by helping us find safety in our bodies, retraining our nervous systems to realize that we are no longer constantly in danger.

Miranda York

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

I use mindfulness to guide you to understand your body's natural impulses that may have been suppressed due to shock traumas, relational traumas, or social conditioning. These natural impulses can help us understand the adaptive actions we need to take in life that flow naturally from our emotions.

Pearl Waldorf

Licensed Professional Counselor

The body holds the story of our lives in the present moment. We can work here and now to heal the wounds which thwart satisfaction in our lives. Through deep listening we learn to attend to the wisdom deep in implicit memory system and to sort what's past from what's actually happening right now.

Amelia Mackle MSEd LPC RYT

Licensed Professional Counselor

My perspective is that the mind and the body cannot be seperated if we are to feel like we are wholly living. I use a variety of breathing techniques, yoga, body sensing and physical health approaches to bring the mind and body to healing together.

Ivy Katz (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

In a somatic approach, the information the body conveys is welcomed. Together we pay close attention to the messages your body is sending. Somatic approaches to therapy understand the ways our bodies digest experiences and utilize this understanding to inform the healing process. A somatic orientation to therapy integrates healing at an embodied level often allowing for progress and changes to happen more sustainably.

Grace Carter (She/Her)

Professional Counselor Associate

A modality grounded in the mind-body connection, somatic psychotherapy is the largest branch of somatic psychology. Contemporary practitioners of somatic therapy believe that viewing the mind and body as one entity is essential to the therapeutic process. This mind/body entity will move toward healing and growth of its own accord, given the right environment, and interpersonal interactions, when conducted in a safe and respectful manner, can positively impact and help regulate the mind/body.

Jennifer Stratton (She/Her/Hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Jessica Barnese

Licensed Professional Counselor

What we have experienced in our lives creates patterns of responses that we often catch ourselves falling into, but don't always know how to get out of. These patterns are held in our nervous system as different forms of thinking and feeling, both in our emotions and as physiological responses in our bodies. In my practice, I address the way the mind, emotions, and body are interconnected to help my clients unwind these patterned responses and have more freedom and choice in their lives.

Emily Ardent (she/they)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS, NCC, LPC intern

Jane Flanagan (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Monica Maragos (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, MFTA

Lesley Smith (they/she)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I believe that our bodies hold so much information and need to be involved in the practice. I am being trained in Somatic Experiencing (currently Intermediate Level 2 trained). To learn more about Somatic Experiencing check out - https://traumahealing.org/

lisa anne ross (she/her)

Professional Counselor

Core Energetics explores the intersection of body, mind, and spirit using embodiment practices to bring consciousness to the flow and constrictions of energy in our body, mind, and emotions. I’ll guide you in applying awareness and movement to unwind the physical and energetic armor that formed as we developed from childhood into adulthood, leading to an authentic self unbound by insecurities.

Ally Simone (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT T2066

Marley Dagner (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, NCC

The brain, nervous system, emotions, and physical experiences are an integral part of our human experience. Somatic-based and focused therapeutic interventions can provide great insight and regulation to a variety of life's struggles; which can lead to an impactful recovery, growth, and healing for many folks.

Shay Larken

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Stuart Malkin

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

Drawing on mindfulness-based, somatic training in Hakomi, Recreation of Self (RC-S), I use the body as a way to access emotions, sensations, imagery, memories that may related to a way a client experiences their body and their therapeutic goals. Lifespan Integration, as the name suggests, helps integrate unprocessed wounded states from past and teaches your mind and body that these events are over.

Skyhook Counseling Center

Professional Counselor Associate

PSYD, LPC, LCSW, Professional Counselor Associate

Bex Mertulien (They/Them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Registered Associate R7909

I have utilized somatic therapy for the last 5 years both through my own personal experience as well as throughout my graduate education. I incorporate principles from Interpersonal Neurobiology as well as concepts learned from my undergradute education in the field of Neurobiology. I intertwine treatment techniques from sensorimotor therapy to ground the body as we explore or engage with trauma, anxiety, dissociation/depersonalization and other issues.

Selin Strait (they/them, she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CHT

Rebecca Garetz (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, CYT

I am a trauma informed certified yoga teacher and therapist (500 hours). Yoga is a great addition to talk therapy. The body holds emotions and trauma that sometimes our brains haven't even processed or consciously aware of. Working with the body can calm the nervous system and teach us about safety, boundaries, and connection.

Danielle Davis (they/she)

Professional Counselor Associate

Candice Guertin (She/Her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MFT Registered Associate

I believe the mind and body need to be integrated for healing to occur. In addition to being a therapist, I am a certified yoga instructor and have received training in mindfulness, meditation, and breathwork. I creates a safe space for clients to explore and be their authentic selves. Clients appreciate my warmth, understanding and ability to foster a space of non-judgement. “Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life” B.K.S

Lauren Saville (She/They)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C5949

Rebeca Rocha (She/Her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

PhD, LCSW

I am a Somatic Experiencing (SE) practitioner. I have received the 3-year professional training from SE International. SE is a body-oriented therapeutic approach for trauma healing.

Emma Stern (she/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C7542

Somatic psychotherapy integrates body-based inquiry and mindfulness into traditional talk therapy. Much of our subconscious emotional experience manifests as physical tension and holding patterns. “Feelings” are literally physical manifestations of the brain and nervous system’s response to emotional stimuli. Through developing a cognitive understanding of the mind-body connection, we find manageable ways to face challenges and cultivate deeper compassion for ourselves and others.

Erica Ochsenreither (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, ATR, LAT

Andrew Conner (He/Him/His)

Marriage and Family Therapist

MA

I am a certified teacher of The Realization Process, an embodied path to spiritual awakening, personal growth, and healing created by Judith Blackstone.

Kellie Supriano (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Caitlin Keitel (she/her)

Professional Counselor

M.A. Process Oriented Facilitation

Our bodies have an incredible capacity to hold experiences as sensory-grounded memories. By consciously following the signals and symptoms of our bodies, we can find much greater awareness and healing than we can with our thinking minds alone.

Riva Stoudt

Licensed Professional Counselor