What Somatic Healing?

Somatic healing is grounded in neuroscience and is a body-based approach to trauma and emotional healing. Instead of just focusing on thoughts or behavior, it gently helps your nervous system shift out of chronic fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

It’s not about fixing yourself—it’s about learning to listen to your body, respond with compassion, and find safety from the inside out.

God created your body on purpose and he calls it very good— your nervous system is part of that design. We invite Jesus into every part of this process. Not as a quick spiritual band-aid—but as the loving Presence who meets you in the places you’ve disconnected from, who weeps with you, and who brings resurrection life where things have felt dead.

Because when your body feels safe, you can finally show up as the woman God created you to be—fully human, fully alive, and deeply loved.

The Clinical Side of Somatic Healing

Somatic healing is a research-based approach to trauma healing that focuses on how emotional pain and trauma live in the body—not just the mind.

When we experience trauma (whether “big T” or “little t”), our nervous system responds by going into survival mode: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. If the body doesn’t have the opportunity to fully process that experience, it gets stuck in a dysregulated state—leading to chronic anxiety, depression, irritability, emotional numbing, panic attacks, and physical symptoms like fatigue, pain, or digestive issues.

Somatic therapy works by helping the nervous system complete those survival responses and come back into regulation.

It uses gentle body-based tools like:

Breathwork
Grounding techniques
Sensation tracking
Movement and posture awareness
Gentle self touch 
Orientation and resource building

These practices increase interoception (your ability to feel and interpret what’s happening in your body), and support your brain and body in creating new patterns of safety, resilience, and connection.

Christ-centered somatic therapy brings this body-based work into alignment with God’s design for healing. Instead of pushing through pain or bypassing emotions, we create space to notice, honor, and invite Jesus into those places—trusting that true restoration involves both body and spirit.