Nervous System Regulation & Somatic Therapy for Sustainable Healing
I work with individuals and couples seeking therapy that goes beyond surface-level coping strategies.
For individuals, therapy focuses on nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and building a felt sense of safety.
For couples, sessions explore how each partner’s nervous system responds under stress and how regulation and connection can be restored together. This approach helps partners move out of reactive cycles and toward more attuned, regulated connection.
My approach integrates somatic therapy, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed care. This means therapy is paced, collaborative, and responsive to your nervous system rather than pushing for insight or change before the body feels ready.
Clients often come to this work feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns that no longer make sense intellectually. By working with the nervous system directly, therapy supports deeper and more sustainable change.
Why Nervous System–Based Therapy
Research in neuroscience and trauma has shown that lasting change happens when the nervous system experiences safety and regulation. Polyvagal theory offers a framework for understanding how our bodies respond to threat, connection, and safety. It also provides understanding of why symptoms like anxiety, shutdown, or reactivity aren’t failures, but adaptive responses.
This work is especially supportive for trauma, anxiety, relationship challenges, and chronic overwhelm.
Somatic and polyvagal-informed therapy helps clients:
Understand their nervous system with compassion
Reduce chronic stress and anxiety
Increase emotional flexibility
Improve relational safety and connection
Sessions may include:
Somatic awareness and body-based regulation practices
Exploring nervous system responses to stress and relationships
Building capacity for emotional regulation and resilience
Gently tracking patterns shaped by trauma and attachment
How Counseling Works
Meet for a consult via telehealth or phone call to determine fit and needs.
Begin therapy, in which we’ll discuss what your goals are and explore some of your past experiences. This allows insight for me into who you are as a person.
We will work toward your goals in a personalized approach. A framework and understanding of how your nervous system works will be interwoven here.
Therapy is fluid and when you sense you’ve met your goals we’ll revisit around new goals or tapering out care.
Have any questions?
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Nervous system regulation means helping your body move out of survival states (fight, flight, freeze) and into a state of safety and connection. Instead of only talking about thoughts, we work with physical sensations, pacing, and awareness so your body can process stress in a sustainable way.
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Somatic therapy integrates the body into the therapeutic process. While insight is important, real change happens when your nervous system experiences something new. We focus on body awareness, slowing down reactions, and building tolerance for emotions so change feels embodied—not just intellectual.
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Yes. Anxiety, depression, and relationship conflict often reflect nervous system dysregulation. A somatic, regulation-first approach helps reduce overwhelm, improve emotional clarity, and strengthen connection - with yourself and your partner.