Lasting Change Begins in
the Nervous System
Somatic Psychotherapy for Anxiety, Trauma & Chronic Stress
Body-centered, talk-based therapy helping adults experiencing anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress experience greater calm, connection, and ease.
You hold a lot, and you hold it well.
On the outside, you may appear capable, composed, and successful. Internally, your body may still feel tense, anxious, overwhelmed, or like it rarely fully settles.
Insight alone doesn’t always create lasting change.
Somatic Psychotherapy is a body-centered, talk-based approach that works directly with the nervous system to help you experience greater calm, connection, presence, and ease.
When Stress Becomes Your Normal
You wake up already feeling tight, restless, or emotionally exhausted—even when nothing is obviously wrong.
Stress seems to live in your shoulders, chest, jaw, or stomach and never fully leaves.
Old fears or familiar patterns emerge unexpectedly, leading you to overreact, shut down, withdraw, or push through.
You understand what’s happening intellectually, yet your body continues responding as though something still needs your attention.
Why Insight Alone Isn’t Always Enough
You may have tried understanding your patterns, reading the books, building routines, or working hard to feel different.
But anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress aren’t only mental experiences—they also live in the nervous system.
When the body has learned to stay vigilant, protective patterns can continue even after circumstances have changed.
This isn’t about effort or willpower.
Sometimes your nervous system needs a different kind of support.
Somatic Therapy Is the Right Approach
Stress and difficult experiences can shape how the body responds over time.
Breathing changes. Muscles tighten. Emotions become difficult to access or feel overwhelming. Protective patterns emerge that once helped you cope but no longer feel supportive.
Somatic Psychotherapy works with these nervous-system patterns with curiosity and care rather than trying to force change.
Through body awareness, mindfulness, nervous-system tracking, and IFS-informed somatic work, we help create greater regulation and flexibility from the inside out.
You may begin to:
✓ Feel more present and connected in daily life
✓ Respond with greater choice rather than automatic reactions
✓ Experience less chronic tension and overwhelm
✓ Feel steadier in relationships and parenting
✓ Build a deeper sense of calm and self-trust
How The Process Works
Establish Safety & Awareness
1
We slow down and create enough support for your nervous system to begin noticing internal experiences without overwhelm.
Safety creates the conditions for change.
Build Regulation
& Capacity
2
Together we gently work with patterns of activation, stress, and protection while expanding your nervous system’s ability to settle and adapt.
Integrate
Lasting Change
3
Over time, clients often experience greater clarity, connection, emotional flexibility, and access to the parts of themselves that feel most grounded and alive.
Take The First Step
You do not need to relive every painful experience.
You do not need to force anything.
You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin.
In our work together, you’ll be met as a whole person—mind and body.
Book A Complimentary Consultation
- Call (802) 598-1245 or complete the form below.
- We’ll talk about what brings you here, what you’re hoping for, and whether Somatic Psychotherapy feels like the right fit.
- No pressure. No obligation.
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Payments & Services
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis.
We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement and accept HSA/FSA.
No hidden fees – all costs are explained before you begin.
Lara Holmes
Somatic Psychotherapist · MA, LCMHC