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Spiritual & artsThe Power of Expressive Arts Therapy in Healing Communities
As a facilitator of numerous online expressive art therapy groups, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative impact these sessions can have, especially for individuals dealing with trauma. The…
PsychedelicsExploring the Role of Expressive Arts Therapy in Psychedelic Integration: Benefits and Considerations
As someone who has embarked on a journey of self-discovery through both psychedelic medicines and expressive arts therapy, I have witnessed firsthand the profound impact creative expression can have…
Spiritual & artsWe are wired for spirituality.
There's something emerging in psychology and neuroscience that many of us have felt in our bodies before any research confirmed it: healing involves more than just the mind. It's also spiritual.
SomaticWhat Is Somatic Therapy. And Can It Actually Work Online?
I meet with many people for whom talk therapy wasn't the problem. They'd done the work. They understood their patterns, sometimes with remarkable clarity, the childhood roots, the coping strategies,…
Nervous systemI understand my trauma but nothing has changed, can somatic therapy help?
Somatic therapy can help when insight hasn't, because trauma isn't stored primarily in your thoughts, it lives in your nervous system, and insight alone doesn't change that. If you've spent years…
SomaticWhy do I feel empty even though my life is fine?
There's a specific kind of conversation I have sometimes with clients who have spent years doing everything they were supposed to do, building something real, showing up, keeping commitments, and…
SomaticWhat high-functioning trauma actually is and why it goes undetected
High-functioning trauma is one of the more invisible clinical presentations. From the outside, everything looks fine, often better than fine. The person is capable, reliable, successful. They hold…
SomaticWhy high achievers can have trauma
There's a persistent cultural script that says trauma happens to people who are somehow less capable, people who can't cope, who fall apart, who show it. High achievers don't fit that image. So when…
Nervous systemHow to Stop Feeling Numb
You start to feel again by slowing down enough to notice what your body is already carrying, and working with those signals rather than trying to think your way through them.
Nervous systemWhy Do I Shut Down in Conflict?
Shutting down in conflict is a nervous system response, not a personality flaw, and it almost always developed before you had any say in it.
SomaticWhat to Talk About in Therapy When You Feel Nothing
When you feel nothing, that numbness itself is worth bringing into the session. You do not need to generate emotions you do not have access to. Starting with what is happening in your body, even…
SomaticWhat to Expect in Your First Somatic Therapy Session
Your first somatic therapy session will look more like a conversation than an exercise. You will spend most of it being asked about yourself, your history, and what brought you in. What makes it…
SomaticOnline vs In-Person Therapy for Trauma: What's Worth Knowing
For most people, online therapy is genuinely effective for trauma work. The research on this has grown considerably since 2020 and the results are largely consistent: outcomes are comparable to…
Nervous systemEMDR vs Somatic Therapy: What's the Difference?
EMDR works primarily through bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess specific traumatic memories. Somatic therapy works through body awareness and nervous system regulation, focusing less…
SomaticParts Work vs IFS: What's Actually Different
IFS, or Internal Family Systems, is a specific therapy model with its own training and certification pathway. Parts work is a broader term for any approach that works with the idea that we are made…
SomaticWhy Therapy Feels Like It's Not Working
Therapy often feels like it is not working because the changes it creates tend to be slow, invisible from the inside, and concentrated in places you are not looking for them.
SomaticWhy do I feel emotionally numb
A lot of people who come to therapy describe some version of this: they know something is off, but they cannot feel it. They can describe their childhoods in clear, analytical terms. They can tell…
Nervous systemWhat somatic therapy actually does for nervous system regulation
Somatic therapy is often described in abstract terms, body-based, trauma-informed, working with sensation. But what does it actually do? What changes, and how? For people dealing with nervous system…
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