Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

Naomi Painter (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I use many somatic methods in my practice in order to assist with the integration of the mind-body experience.

Jeanell Innerarity (She/Her)

Professional Counselor

MA, QMHP-C, HTS, LMT

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.

Cornelia Taubmann (she/her)

Hypnotherapist

PgDip

In my practice, I use Somatic Experiencing and other body-focused approaches like EMDR because of their effectiveness in dealing with trauma.

Marley Dagner (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

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.

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.

Jennie Towne

Professional Counselor Associate

MEd, MS

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

Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A. Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy

Many people find that talk therapy often isn't enough. I use somatic therapy to help people ground into their body's wisdom. Somatic therapy is a great support when processing trauma or difficult emotions and helps regulate the nervous system. My approach with somatic therapy is trauma informed. I know that somatic therapy can often be triggering rather than grounding. I will work with you to use somatic therapy in a way that feels safe and supportive.

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.

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.

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.

horizon greene (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

Being in our bodies is the work of listening deeply to our whole selves. My healing style is somatic and some of my work with folks looks like helping folks to breathe, to listen deeply to their whole selves and to develop more fluency with their hearts and bodies. I believe the best therapy will always invite your fullness into the room and that by working in the body and attuning toward our full selves we step into our healing.

Peter Addy (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

PhD, LPC, LMHC

James Reling (he/him/his)

Professional Counselor Associate

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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.

Brittany England

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

I use an integrative Mind-Body approach that is based in meridian tapping techniques (FasterEFT & EFT), NLP, hypnosis, 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 allows us to create better rapport with self, and invites in the possibility for healing.

Kristine Zappa (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, Professional Counselor Associate, R-DMT, LMHCA

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).

Marcy Irene Jenks (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, RN, LPC

"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.

Quinn Rivenburgh (they/them)

Art Therapist

MAAT, ATR-BC, LAT, LPCC

Somatic Experiencing Therapy is a trauma-healing technique focused on the body. Because of the way that traumatic memories are stores in our brains and nervous systems, it is often not effective to merely talk about the trauma. This is because trauma reactions get "stuck" in the nervous system. Somatic Experiencing Therapy uses body-based tools to help mitigate and resolve trauma responses, in order to restore resilience and ease to a person's daily lived experience.

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 your body.

Sarah Zimmerman (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.

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.

Ayala Parker (she/they)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, LMFT-A

Johanna Rayman (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, GCFP

Our bodies are involved in all of our thoughts & emotions. Sometimes words can't convey the depth of our experience, but mindful attention to physical experience can open up new awareness and self-compassion. I am trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the Feldenkrais Method(R). I am also influenced by ideas from Interpersonal Neurobiology, Internal Family Systems, and Authentic Movement.

Haley Brotzman (she/her)

Qualified Mental Health Professional

Student Intern

Our bodies hold complete memories of everything that has happened to us and the generations that have come before us. There is so much history in our bodies that we often are not even aware of. It is through connection to the body that we can begin to heal from trauma, abuse, general unhealthy patterns, and more.

Shay Larken

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, Professional Counselor Associate, NCC

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.

Jenni Goldstein (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Hakomi and other modalities I work with work very directly with the body. This might include tracking the body through mindfulness, movement/gestures, or consensual therapeutic touch in service to self-study. The body is also utilized for processing traumatic memories that are stuck in the nervous system.

Misha 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.

Jules Allison (They/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, Professional Counselor Associate, CADC II

I use EMDR & IFS that are focused on somatic approaches

Erin Ruehmann (she/her)

Somatic Practitioner

Somatic therapy encourages body movements and expressions as a way to tap into the places where early traumatic events with largely unfelt emotions have become trapped. Through this process, false beliefs, defense strategies and previously unconscious material is realized and the energy system starts to flow more freely into a more open, integrated and grounded sense of self.

Anjuli Shah-Johnson (She/Her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LMT

Dually licensed as a clinical social worker and a massage therapist, I have continued training with Kathy Kain in a modality called Somatic Regulation and Resilience completing certification for using this modality in the treatment of developmental trauma. I have also worked with Carol Gray with a focus on integrating craniosacral work as a means of releasing emotions and patterns that are no longer serving us from the body.

Kari Carroll (she/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMFT

Hayden Collier

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CADC-I

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.

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.

Camillia de la Garza (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 supervision with Donna Roy. I am also a self-proclaimed interpersonal neurobiology geek and love bringing this psychoeducation into my work.

Ally Simone (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT T2066

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

Riva Stoudt

Licensed Professional Counselor

Jen Yerty (She/They)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CADC I

I have training in somatic and mindfulness techniques pioneered by Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine. I have specifi training in Somatic Experiencing for trauma processing.

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.

Andrew Conner (He/Him/His)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

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

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.

Jessica Barnese

Professional Counselor Associate

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.

Rachel Stein (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC

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.

Marc•francis Otto (he/they)

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.

Emily Davis (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS, NCC, LPC intern

Christo Brehm (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

Professional Counselor Associate

Although we sometimes think of psychotherapy as all about thoughts and emotions, the body and nervous system, particularly when we are talking about trauma and overwhelming or chronic stress, plays a central role in our well being. I am a current student within the 3-year Professional Somatic Experiencing training program and actively integrate this approach within my practice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anya Ludwig (she/they)

Professional Counselor

QMHP

Sometimes talking only gets us so far. I often use mindfulness exercises to build awareness of bodily sensations. From there, we can expand our awareness together to how sensations correlate with thoughts and feelings, and pay attention to which comes first, and what makes us feel better in our bodies. Including the body in counseling gives us a lot more to work with.

Jane Flanagan (they/she)

Professional Counselor Associate

Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Kellie Supriano

Licensed Professional Counselor

Katherine Friedman

Licensed Professional Counselor

Body-Centered Psychotherapy addresses the experience of the whole person, investigating the body and mind as a unified system. Thoughts, emotions, sensations, movements, impulses, and beliefs can be symptoms of suffering or solutions to it. Bringing awareness to all areas of your experience can help you lead a fuller, more integrated life.

Erica Ochsenreither (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, ATR-P

Haley Bosco Doyle (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A.

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.

Dore Everett,LCSW (He/Him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

An interdisciplinary, holistic approach to study the experience of the body to reveal and understand the interaction of our body structures with our thoughts, beliefs and actions.

Jennifer Stratton (She/Her/Hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC