Genevieve Layman (she/her)

My Approach to Helping

I believe meaningful healing happens when we have space to understand not only our thoughts and emotions, but also what our bodies and nervous systems are telling us. Drawing from Somatic Experiencing, attachment theory, and neurobiology, I offer a compassionate, collaborative approach that honors your experiences, values, and pace. I work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Together, we gently explore the sensations, emotions, and protective patterns that may leave you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, shut down, or disconnected. Rather than forcing change, we create space for greater awareness, safety, and choice. As protective patterns soften, your nervous system can become more flexible, making room for greater self-trust, connection, aliveness, and freedom to respond to life in ways that feel authentically yours.

My Values as a Therapist

I value authenticity, compassion, curiosity, and genuine human connection. I believe you are the expert on your own experience, and therapy should be a place where you feel respected, heard, and free to be fully yourself. I value creating a relationship grounded in trust, safety, and mutual respect, while honoring your pace, values, and lived experience. I believe our protective patterns often develop for good reasons, and I approach them with curiosity rather than judgment. I value helping you reconnect with your body, emotions, intuition, and sense of agency so that healing becomes less about changing who you are and more about creating space for who you are beneath the patterns that no longer serve you. Above all, I value the possibility of change: that with support, compassion, and greater awareness, we can develop more choice, connection, and freedom in how we move through the world.