Reconnect to your body, mind, and relationships — from the inside out.
Meet Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, RSME/T, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor
Somatic Therapy based in Atlanta, Georgia
When struggles with food, body image, or parenting patterns linger, it can feel exhausting and confusing.
You may sense that something deeper is asking for attention — even if words can’t fully explain it yet.
Therapy offers a space to listen to those signals and begin reconnecting with your body, your relationships, and your sense of self.
Food and body battles or painful parenting patterns can leave you feeling overwhelmed instead of energized, connected, and tuned in.
You may feel at home in this work if you are…
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Tired of the shame and fear surrounding a long-standing eating disorder, recognize how dieting keeps you stuck, and dread squeezing into yet another too-small version of yourself.
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You may find yourself yelling more than you want to, worrying about attachment or development, and feeling scared of repeating patterns from your own upbringing.
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You sense that anxiety, depression, or long-standing patterns are asking for deeper attention — and you’re open to a compassionate, body-based path toward change.
Therapy with me weaves together symbolism, science, and skills for deep nourishment.
Together we explore your concerns with curiosity and compassion while integrating body-based practices that support your nervous system and help you feel more grounded, connected, and alive.
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Perhaps specific foods, exercise habits, fantasies about escaping home life, or imagining other families’ perfect lives constantly steal your attention. Rituals, stories and symbols—the ones you return to for comfort or imagined safety—can actually be breadcrumbs leading you back to your core sense of self.
Instead of a compliance-based approach of eradicating symptoms or bad habits, or in lieu of shaming you into change, we explore the symbolism of these patterns with curiosity, compassion and care.
Through mindful story, art, movement, and conversation, we explore the depth of your inner world, using symbols as bridges to transform symptoms into meaning, purpose, and embodiment in your life.
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There’s more to healing, regulation and biology than simply “calming down” or falling within norms of cultural or systemic expectations. Your unique body has a unique design of needs and expressions.
I offer science-informed, relational and invitational practices designed to help you reconnect with your personal cues, which offers the co-regulation that eventually leads to self-regulation.
As you learn to re-parent yourself from the inside-out, you can better feed yourself with satisfaction and pleasure, connect with others without losing yourself and move into life with more capacity for presence, confidence and drive.
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Your all-or-nothing dances with food, exercise and body image, as well as the I-love-you-I-hate-you dynamics in parenting, or the ups-and-downs with life, likely have some common patterns of how you learned to deal with big feelings early in your life.
Along with psycho-education, your body, your nervous system, the young part of you that resides so deeply in stuck patterns, gets to explore the “ideal” developmental movement patterns of attachment.
These somatic redos offer the ease, exploration, healthy risk-taking and play that are necessary for robust nervous system functioning, gut motility and healthy relationships.
Methods
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My work is grounded in relational, developmental somatic therapy.
Together we explore how early patterns of connection live on in the body and nervous system, shaping the ways you relate to food, parenting, and relationships. Over time, gentle somatic practices and reflective dialogue can help your body experience new patterns of safety, connection, and vitality.
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Intuitive Eating Counseling is a non-diet approach that helps you develop a healthier relationship with food, your body, and the rhythms of everyday life.
Through a trauma-sensitive, invitational process, you explore how hunger, fullness, emotions, and your other unique body cues can guide you back toward trust in your own body-mind wisdom.
Over time, this work supports a deeper process of self-discovery and learning how to nourish yourself well.
What if it could finally feel safe for more of you to show up?
Healing from disordered eating, gaining confidence and connection in your parenting, or reconnecting with your core intelligence all ask for humility, courage, and commitment.
Alongside psychoeducation and conversation, a relationally-based somatic approach can create shifts that go beyond calm, peace, or intellectual understanding.
Together we work so you can reclaim your appetite for life — the grounded, satisfying kind that lets you savor what matters and feel more fully alive.
When I was a college student immersed in diet culture, a teacher shared a piece of wisdom that has stayed with me ever since:
“You have to want to know your own truth more than making others happy or shape-shifting into someone you were never meant to be.”
At the time, I was deeply entangled in dieting, people-pleasing, and performance culture — patterns that many of the clients I work with today know all too well. Untangling those patterns through therapy, movement practices, and personal exploration became an important part of my own journey.
With decades of experience as a movement educator, clinical trauma training, and work across multiple levels of eating disorder care, I bring both professional depth and lived experience to this work.
Alongside my ongoing interest in early feeding and attachment rhythms — and the everyday realities of raising three lively children — I continue to love helping others discover their deeper hungers and reconnect with their body’s wisdom.
I’m present, patient, and predictable because I believe the therapeutic relationship can offer a steady foundation for healing — especially for those working through eating and body struggles or parenting concerns.
Rather than assigning a prescriptive plan, I invite therapeutic practices and value your insight, ideas, and inner wisdom as we explore what supports your unique growth.
My commitment is to offer a non-shaming, inclusive space — because this work isn’t about “fixing” you, but about helping you discover more of who you are.
Specialties
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Eating Disorders Therapy
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Intuitive Eating Counseling
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Parent & Family Therapy
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Somatic Therapy
Credentials
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Licensed Professional Counselor, Georgia LPC #012709
M.S. Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Georgia State University - Atlanta, Georgia
B.A., Major: Journalism, Cognate: Women's Studies and Theatre Speech - University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC
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Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor - The Original Intuitive Eating Pros
Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist — ISMETA, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
Chi for Two® Embodiment Coach, Trainer & Co-Developer
Embodying the Autonomic Nervous System – Body-Mind Centering®
Advanced Perinatal Mental Health certificate – Postpartum Support International
300+ hours Registered Yoga Teacher – Yoga Alliance
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
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· The Therapeutic Dance of Intuitive Eating: Relational Somatic Practices to Support the Biology of Co-regulation and Digestive Functioning
· Chi for Two - Polyvagal-informed Multi-generational Trauma Healing (3 CEs) LPCAGA conference – Savannah, GA
· Polyvagal Bites: A 3-Course Series Celebrating Oppositional Movement as the Path to Satisfying Hunger (9CEs, LPCA) – Stone Mtn, GA
· M-Bodied Nourishment: Chi for Two Co-regulation Practices for Professionals Working with Disordered Eating (9CEs, LCPA) – virtual
· How to Become Sport Nutrition & Exercise Intuitive During Recovery – Renfrew Conference
· The Ethical Pairing of Psychotherapy with Body-based Therapies & Practices (6 CEs, LPCA) – virtual
· Mindful Movement for the Treatment of Eating Disorders (3 CEs) Southern Yoga Therapy Association – Decatur, GA
· Dealing with Overexercise and Exercise Resistance While Integrating aFueling and Mindful Movement Message – International Association for Eating Disorders Professionals symposium – Orlando, FL & Southeastern Eating Disorders (SEEDS) conference – Destin, FL
Why the Name M-Bodied?
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine® is an approach that helps people reconnect with their body’s capacity for nourishment, safety, and connection.
The M-Bodied Approach weaves together attachment science, nervous system research, and somatic practices to support healing and nourishment from the inside out.
In this work, “mothering” refers to the biological and relational qualities that help humans feel safe, connected, and able to grow. Much of this experience is supported by oxytocin — often called the bonding hormone — which plays an important role in our nervous system’s social engagement and sense of safety.
Because of this, the capacity to embody “mothering” is not limited to mothers or to any gender. Anyone can cultivate these qualities of presence, attunement, and care within themselves and in relationship with others.
You deserve to feel nourished and connected in your body and in your relationships.
This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.
-Marion Woodman, Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women's movement figure