Somatic therapy in San Francisco

Talk therapy asks what happened and what you make of it. Somatic therapy adds a second question: what is your body still doing about it?

Trauma, chronic stress and long-running anxiety don't only live as thoughts. They show up as a held breath, a clenched jaw, a startle that fires before you've decided anything. Those patterns were protective once. They tend to outlast the thing they were protecting you from.

In session that means slowing down and paying attention to physical experience alongside the conversation — noticing sensation, working with breath and movement, letting the nervous system finish responses it never got to complete. It is not bodywork and there's no physical manipulation. It's therapy that treats your body as part of the picture rather than a bystander.

People often come to this work when they've done talk therapy before and found it helpful but incomplete — when they can explain their anxiety in detail and still feel it in their chest every morning.