Relational Somatic Therapy in Atlanta, GA
Reconnect with your body’s wisdom and move toward greater vitality in your life and relationships.
Somatic Therapy for individuals, families and romantic partners in person Atlanta, GA, online across Georgia
You sense patterns in your body and relationships that don’t shift through thinking or talking alone.
Somatic therapy gently brings the body into the healing process.
Many of these patterns take shape early in life. Our first relationships teach us how safe it is to be present in our bodies, to express big feelings, and to move between connection and independence. Over time, these experiences—along with patterns passed down through generations—shape our nervous system responses, movement patterns, and relational dynamics.
None of us experience ideal conditions growing up. Sometimes, we need new kinds of experiences to reconnect with our core self and our aliveness—so we can move through life with greater presence and more flexible, connected ways of relating.
With relational support, it becomes possible to reconnect with your body’s wisdom—your chi, your life force—and feel more able to ride the waves of life with steadiness, nourishment, and a deeper sense of satisfaction.
In M-Bodied® Therapy, the body is gently welcomed into the process as a space for exploration, discovery, and growth. Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we move, create, or explore developmental movement patterns. Often we weave these together—and you set the pace. Together, this work helps restore vitality in the body, in relationships, and across generations.
Why the body’s intelligence matters…
When your body feels supported and safe, you have a greater capacity to function in a healthy, responsive way to life’s inevitable ups and downs. You tend to experience more ease in your body, your moods feel more manageable, and your relationships feel clear. You can listen better to your body’s unique signals for food and movement and play, you are more receptive of your own needs so you can better catch your kids' big feelings and needs, and you gradually move in a way that feels more present and ready for a rich life again.
Many of the patterns that shape how we feel, relate, and move through the world live not only in our thoughts, but in our bodies. Long before we have words, our nervous systems learn how safe it is to connect, express feelings, and respond to stress.
Over time, these experiences shape our physiology, our movement patterns, and the ways we relate to ourselves and others. When certain experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the body may hold onto protective patterns—tension, shutdown, hypervigilance, or rigid ways of coping.
While talking and insight remain helpful parts of the process, somatic therapy from a relational and developmental perspective recognizes the therapeutic relationship as a supportive container for change.
Based on your unique history and hopes for growth, we may explore specific somatic practices and developmental movement patterns that help restore nervous system balance, deepen body awareness, and open new possibilities for connection.
Somatic therapy gently helps the body rediscover its natural capacity for regulation, movement, and connection. As the body begins to shift, many people experience renewed vitality—in themselves, in their relationships, and in how they move through life.
The Relational Movement Approach Behind this Work
Many people come to this work struggling either with their relationship to their body and food, or with the intensity of parenting and caregiving. While these may seem like different challenges, they often share common nervous system patterns. When our bodies have learned ways of responding to stress, inhibition, or disconnection, it can shape how we relate to ourselves, our bodies, and the people we love.
Somatic therapy offers a way to gently work with these patterns so greater ease, connection, and responsiveness can emerge.
My work is grounded in Chi for Two®, a mindful embodiment method for trauma healing that I helped co-develop and now teach as an ISMETA-approved training program.
Chi for Two® is a relational, somatic approach that helps the body re-experience the early relational needs and developmental patterns of safety, connection, and play. The name reflects a simple truth: our nervous systems do not heal in isolation. Healing happens through movement, relationship, and the body’s innate capacity to reorganize when it feels safe enough to do so.
This approach weaves together somatic therapy, trauma-healing practices, and mindful movement to help you reconnect with parts of yourself that may have become frozen, inhibited, or disconnected over time.
Within my practice, I bring this work to life through M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®, an approach I created that explores how mindful movement and relational nervous system awareness can support healing and nourishment for individuals and families. Through this work, healing becomes not just symptom relief, but the restoration of vitality in the body, in relationships, and across generations.
Here, mothering is understood as a verb rather than a gender role—the human capacity to nurture, attune, and support life within ourselves and our relationships.
Somatic Therapy can help you…
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Learn to recognize and trust your body’s cues, guiding your needs for support, connection, creativity, and direction.
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A safe, attuned therapeutic relationship helps your nervous system shift toward greater regulation, ease, and connection.
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What once felt like shutdown or overwhelm can begin to shift as your body explores new patterns—at a pace that feels supportive and sustainable.
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Develop the capacity to stay connected to others while remaining grounded in your own sense of self.
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As you reshape patterns in relationship, the impact extends beyond you—supporting more connected and resilient ways of relating over time.
Somatic therapy can look different from what many people expect. Here’s how the work we do together may feel similar — and how it may be different.
Somatic Therapy with me is…
Invitational.
You’re encouraged to make choices and explore what feels supportive and aligned for you.
Experiential and Integrative.
We may talk, notice body sensations, try practices or new movement patterns, and allow your nervous system to experience new possibilities.
Depth-Oriented.
Rather than rushing change, we work at a pace that supports sustainable, lasting growth.
Curious About Your Story.
Together we explore early relationships and generational family and cultural patterns with compassion and curiosity.
Embodied and Expansive.
You learn to re-inhabit your body, experience a fuller range of feelings and movement, and relate to others with authenticity and vitality — without losing yourself.
Somatic Therapy with Me Isn’t…
Prescriptive.
You won’t be expected to follow instructions, perform exercises, or be compliant. Your experience and choices guide the process.
Body-Fixated or Talk-Avoidant.
We don’t ignore conversation or hyper-focus on the body. Instead, we create dialogue and integration between psyche and soma.
Formulaic.
There’s no cookie-cutter plan, rigid protocol, or predetermined timeline for healing.
Blame-Focused.
Rather than shaming others or ourselves, we approach wounds and patterns with curiosity and compassion.
About Calming or “Fixing” You.
Somatic work isn’t about suppressing big feelings or spiritually bypassing them. It’s about expanding your capacity for presence, expression, and authentic connection.
Moving Toward Healing
Somatic therapy invites a different kind of listening—awakening greater vitality in your body and in how you move through life and relationships.
As we work together, you may begin to notice new possibilities emerging: greater steadiness, deeper connection, and a renewed sense of vitality in how you move through your life and relationships.
If this approach resonates with you, I welcome you to reach out to learn more about working together.
Frequently Asked Questions
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M-Bodied® Therapy is an invitational and collaborative process. Sessions may include body awareness practices, developmental or somatic movement, expressive arts, or gentle psychoeducation around the nervous system and attachment.
Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we move, create, or explore patterns together. Often, we weave these approaches based on what feels most supportive to you.
This is a non-shaming space grounded in curiosity, compassion, and care—where we move at your pace and follow what your system needs.
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Each person’s process is unique. Some clients engage this work as an ongoing, supportive practice, while others take a more focused, time-limited approach.
Somatic therapy is not a quick fix—lasting change tends to unfold gradually, as your nervous system builds capacity for new patterns of regulation, connection, and movement.
Between sessions, many clients begin to integrate what they’re learning into daily life. Over time, this can support a deeper sense of embodiment and an increased ability to care for yourself in meaningful, sustainable ways.
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That’s completely okay—and very common. Many people come to somatic therapy feeling unsure, disconnected, or even hesitant to engage with their body.
This work is always invitational. We move slowly and with care, building a sense of safety and choice along the way. There is no pressure to do anything that doesn’t feel right for you.
Over time, many clients find that as safety and trust develop, it becomes easier to gently reconnect with their body in ways that feel supportive and empowering.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
What People Are Saying
“This therapy has transformed the way I experience moving through and being in the world.”
— client
“Now I know it’s not in my head, it’s in my body. The healing, the progress, happens as I experience what I really needed so long ago in my body.”
— client