If you’ve ever found yourself understanding your patterns but still feeling stuck in them, you’re not alone. Insight is important — but real healing often happens below the surface, in the body.
That’s where somatic therapy and Brainspotting come in.
What Is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing that recognizes something important:
your body holds experiences, emotions, and memories — especially the ones you didn’t have words for at the time.
Rather than talking around your symptoms, somatic work gently brings awareness to:
- Sensations in the body
- Nervous system responses
- Emotional reactions that show up physically
This isn’t about “doing it right” or pushing yourself to relive painful experiences. It’s about listening to what your body already knows and creating safety, regulation, and choice.
How Brainspotting Fits In
Brainspotting is a powerful, trauma-informed modality that works with the brain and nervous system to access deeper healing.
In simple terms:
Brainspotting helps identify where unprocessed experiences live in the brain — and supports the body in releasing them without needing to explain everything out loud.
Clients often describe it as:
- Subtle, but profound
- Less overwhelming than traditional trauma work
- A way to process what feels “stuck” without forcing insight
You stay present. You stay in control. And we move at your pace.
Why Mind–Body Work Matters (Especially in Relationships)
So many of the patterns we repeat in relationships aren’t logical — they’re nervous system responses.
Fight. Freeze. Shutdown. Over-function. Pull away. People-please.
Somatic therapy and Brainspotting help you:
- Recognize what’s happening in your body during conflict or disconnection
- Build regulation before communication
- Respond instead of react
- Feel safer being honest, vulnerable, and connected
This is especially helpful if you:
- Look “fine” on the outside but feel overwhelmed internally
- Keep having the same arguments or emotional loops
- Feel disconnected from intimacy or your own body
- Know your history matters, but don’t want to relive it endlessly
What This Work Feels Like
This isn’t therapy where you’re analyzing yourself nonstop or trying to “fix” something broken.
It’s:
- Grounded
- Curious
- Relational
- Often surprisingly gentle
And yes — there’s room for humor, breath, and lightness along the way.
Healing doesn’t have to be heavy to be real.
Is Somatic Therapy or Brainspotting Right for You?
You don’t need to have “big trauma” to benefit from body-based work.
This approach can support:
- Anxiety and overwhelm
- Relationship patterns and attachment wounds
- Emotional shutdown or reactivity
- Chronic stress and burnout
- Feeling disconnected from yourself or others
If traditional talk therapy hasn’t gone quite deep enough, this may be the missing piece.
Let’s Slow Things Down — Together
You don’t have to force healing or figure it out alone.
Sometimes change starts by listening differently — to your body, your nervous system, and what’s been trying to get your attention.
If you’re curious about somatic therapy or Brainspotting in Colorado, I’d love to connect.
