Somatic Therapy in Vermont

Available in person in Montpelier, VT, and statewide via telehealth

Your body holds trauma.

You can release those burdens.

You can feel

In your body, the energy that hasn’t been able to be released. When it takes over, you are frozen, or small, or you want to scream or rage. You can understand your past in your mind, but that hasn’t brought you the freedom you want to feel.

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FAQs

  • Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing that works directly with how the nervous system stores and responds to past threat, rather than relying only on talking through what happened.

  • Talk therapy focuses primarily on understanding and discussing experiences, while somatic therapy works with the physical, nervous-system-level responses that talking alone often doesn't fully reach.

  • This is common — the nervous system can store an incomplete defensive response that continues to activate on its own, separate from conscious understanding of what happened.

  • No. Somatic therapy isn't about retelling or reliving the traumatic story — it works with the body's stored responses directly, without requiring a detailed narrative account.

  • Sessions involve tracking physical sensations and guiding your body's own defensive responses to safely complete, using a technique called containment, rather than only discussing the experience verbally.

  • Yes. Somatic therapy builds on established research into how the nervous system processes and stores traumatic threat, including the work of Peter Levine, a foundational figure in this field.

  • I'm trained in Trauma Integration Protocol (TIP), developed by Eric Wolterstorff building on Peter Levine's research into the autonomic nervous system.

  • This varies by person and history; somatic therapy is generally used within an ongoing therapeutic relationship rather than as a single, standalone treatment.

  • Yes. Somatic therapy sessions are available via secure telehealth to adults anywhere in Vermont, as well as in-person in Montpelier.

  • Yes. Somatic therapy's nervous-system-focused approach pairs well with IFS, addressing both the physiological and emotional/parts-based dimensions of trauma.

  • Yes. Somatic work can support integration by helping the body complete nervous-system responses that surface during or after KAP sessions.

  • It tends to fit people who already understand their trauma intellectually but whose body continues to react in ways insight alone hasn't resolved.

  • Yes, though people entirely new to somatic work may benefit from an initial conversation about what to expect, which we can cover during your free consultation.