What Is Somatic Therapy?
A Gentle Path Back to Yourself
Somatic therapy is a body-based healing approach that helps you reconnect with your natural capacity to feel, sense, and respond to life with presence. While traditional talk therapy focuses on the mind, somatic therapy invites the body into the process. It recognizes that our physical form stores emotional memories, patterns, and protective mechanisms. Traces of past experiences that often show up in posture, breath, chronic tension, digestive issues, and even in the ways we give or receive love.
Many people come to this work because they feel stuck or weighed down by the echoes of childhood. Parents, adults navigating transitions, and individuals longing to free themselves from old emotional imprints often find that somatic therapy helps them return to a deeper and more grounded sense of self. The goal is not to force change but to create the conditions for the body to soften, open, and communicate what it's been holding.
How Somatic Therapy Works
Somatic therapy begins with nervous system regulation. The process of helping your body shift out of survival mode and into a state where healing can naturally occur. Through breathwork, mindful awareness, and gentle movement, clients learn to notice what their bodies are saying without judgment or urgency. The body has its own rhythm and reveals layers of information only when you are ready to receive them. This makes somatic therapy a deeply safe and organic way to approach unresolved experiences.
In my sessions, I draw from my background as a dancer and movement practitioner, weaving in simple and subtle movement exercises to stimulate grounding, flow, and presence. These practices support both the nervous system and the lymphatic system, helping clients feel more spacious and settled before entering deeper emotional territory.
I also integrate elements of Gestalt therapy, which encourages clients to explore what is happening in the present moment rather than analyzing the past from a distance. This "here and now" awareness helps bring unconscious patterns into clarity. Psychodrama sometimes becomes part of the process as well. It allows clients to express emotions through creative action, offering a bold and playful channel for releasing long-buried emotional material.
All of these approaches support the central aim of somatic therapy: bringing you back into your body so it can guide the healing process from within.
Why Somatic Therapy Matters
Healing happens when you can feel again. When you reconnect with your own presence. Many people try to think their way out of emotional pain, but the mind can easily intellectualize or avoid what the body already knows. Somatic therapy bypasses this mental loop by grounding you in sensation, breath, and embodied awareness. Over time, this brings a sense of relief, wholeness, and clarity that thinking alone cannot offer.
This work also aligns with a broader philosophy: if your soul chose to experience life in a human body, then knowing and honoring that vessel becomes an essential part of your path. Understanding your physical and emotional landscape is a doorway to deeper self-knowledge and personal freedom.
Begin Your Journey
My Childhood Deconditioning Program (a 10-session somatic-based process) supports clients in releasing long-held patterns and reconnecting with their authentic selves. I work with clients in Mexico City and online with individuals in the U.S. and Canada.
If you feel called to explore somatic therapy or want to learn more, contact me.
