Somatic Therapy
Real-Life Experience – You freeze during conflict. Your body goes into shutdown. You have panic attacks out of nowhere – or chronic tension, pain, or digestive issues with no clear cause. You know trauma lives in your body, but you don’t know how to access or heal it.
You can do all the talk therapy in the world, but if your body still feels like it’s stuck in survival mode, something’s missing. You freeze in arguments. You check out during stress. Your body keeps the score, but you’re not sure how to read the scoreboard, let alone change it. Maybe your jaw’s always tight. Maybe your gut’s a mess. Maybe your chest gets heavy out of nowhere. You know it’s connected to past trauma or chronic stress, but you don’t know how to reach it. That’s where somatic therapy comes in.
At IMH, we use somatic therapy to help you reconnect with your body in ways that are safe, slow, and supported. This isn’t about pushing through or reliving trauma, it’s about learning to notice, feel, and respond to what your nervous system is telling you. Through grounding, movement, breath, and body awareness, we help you process what words alone can’t touch. You don’t have to explain every sensation, you just need space to listen.
If your body feels like it’s stuck in the past while your brain is trying to move on, somatic work can help you bring those parts back into alignment. You’re not crazy, dramatic, or weak. Your system is doing exactly what it was wired to do. We just help it learn something new.
How to Know You Might Need This:
- You feel disconnected from your body
- You’ve done talk therapy but feel stuck
- You’re dealing with trauma, chronic stress, or PTSD
- You feel constantly dysregulated or hypervigilant
Why It Helps
Somatic therapy reconnects you to the body as a source of wisdom, not just distress. At IMH, we blend body-based work with emotional processing so your system can finally exhale and heal.
Somatic therapy is about learning to trust your body again as a source of wisdom. When you’ve lived through trauma, stress, or even just a lifetime of disconnect, your body can feel like the enemy. Panic shows up out of nowhere. Muscles stay braced even when nothing’s happening. You feel either flooded or numb, and both are exhausting. Somatic therapy helps you slow down enough to listen, to reconnect.
Permission to Exhale
At IMH, we blend body-based techniques with emotional processing, so you’re not just talking about what happened, you’re actually working it through your system. That might look like grounding, breathwork, or simply noticing how your body responds when you name a truth out loud. We move at your pace, with consent and safety at the center of everything. No pushing. No performing. Gentle, guided curiosity.
This work is about giving your system permission to exhale, to come down from constant alert, to rest in something other than survival. Healing doesn’t just happen in your head, it happens in your whole self.
