Somatic therapy in San Diego and online across California.
Inner Compass Psychotherapy may incorporate somatic, body-aware work into therapy for people navigating trauma, anxiety, and patterns that feel hard to shift through insight alone.
The body can hold information, too.
Somatic therapy pays attention to the physical side of experience: tension, shutdown, restlessness, breathing, or the sense of being on alert. It can make room for what your nervous system is communicating without reducing therapy to a set of techniques.
Inner Compass describes using somatic approaches when they fit, alongside psychodynamic, relational, attachment-based, EMDR, and IFS-informed work.
Questions about somatic therapy.
Is somatic therapy only for trauma?
Not necessarily. Body-aware work may be useful when anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm, or relationship patterns have a physical dimension.
Will it be used in every session?
Not necessarily. Inner Compass tailors therapy to the person, so somatic work may be one part of therapy when it is useful.
Who offers somatic therapy here?
Nora Katz, LCSW #112300, lists somatic work among the approaches she uses.
Start where you are.
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