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What body-based therapy actually is, without the mystique.
36 guides on somatic work — what happens in a session, what the evidence really shows once you look at who the trials excluded, and how to tell a licensed clinician from a certified coach. Plus 3 small tools. Nothing to sign up for. There is a directory of practitioners here too, and it is small.
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What is somatic therapy?
Somatic therapy is body-based psychotherapy. Instead of working only with thoughts and stories, a somatic therapist pays attention to what your nervous system is doing — the tension, restlessness, numbness, or shutdown that often outlasts the events that caused them. Approaches like Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and sensorimotor psychotherapy help the body complete stress responses it never got to finish, which is why this work is often a fit for trauma, chronic tension and pain, anxiety that lives in the body, and feeling disconnected or numb.
Sessions look like talk therapy with more attention to felt experience: noticing sensation, slowing down, working at the pace your nervous system can actually integrate. Many people who've found talk therapy helpful-but-incomplete — or who've been doing somatic exercises on their own and want a guide — look for a somatic practitioner next.
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Plain-spoken guides and a few small tools. No account, nothing stored, nothing sold.
Which kind of somatic work fits?
Three questions, and a straight answer.
ToolThe body response map
What your system does under pressure.
ToolWhat it will cost you
Real numbers, with reimbursement.
GuideReading your own signals
Interoception, and why some people have almost none.
GuideCoach or therapist?
The difference that decides it, and how to tell.
GuidePanic attacks
What is happening, and why fighting it makes it worse.
GuideCrying in therapy
Not the goal, and its absence is not a problem.
GuideBrainspotting
What it is, and how much is actually known.
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