SOMATIC THERAPY
Change how you feel by working with your body, not just your thoughts
Sometimes change does not come from talking more, it comes from doing something different. Mind body therapy uses movement, breath, and physical awareness to help you shift your state, release tension, and respond to your experiences in new ways.
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING
Mind-Body Therapy addresses the physical state of the body as well as the mental state
Traditional therapy is often imagined as sitting and talking about problems. While conversation can be powerful, many healing traditions across cultures have long recognized that the body also carries our experiences. Stress, trauma, and emotional overwhelm may show up physically through:
Tightness in the body
Shallow breathing
Racing thoughts
Fatigue & Restlessness
Difficulty relaxing
A sense of disconnection (physical or emotional)
HOW MIND BODY THERAPY WORKS
Using movement and awareness to shift your internal state
Mind-Body therapy is a somatic approach that recognizes the important role the body plays in mental health, healing, and emotional regulation.
These approaches often incorporate mindfulness, inviting clients to slow down and notice what the body may be holding while learning meaningful ways to respond with greater awareness and care. Mind-body practices may be integrated in small ways within a session or serve as the container for the entire session. In this way, therapy can move beyond conversation alone and support a more whole-person approach to healing.
Why Mind- Body Therapy?
How the body holds experience
Including the body in therapy creates new ways to understand and respond to stress. Mind body therapy, often called somatic therapy, recognizes that thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations are connected. Bringing awareness to how experiences live in the body can help shift patterns that are hard to change through reflection alone.
Awareness and regulation
Through mindfulness and other body based practices, clients learn to notice how the body responds to thoughts and emotions. This awareness can support nervous system regulation, release tension, and create new ways of responding to stress with more steadiness and care.
Whole person care
At TCC, our approach to mind body therapy is grounded in whole-person care and a decolonizing approach. Many cultures have long understood that healing involves mind, body, spirit, and community. This work creates space to reconnect with embodied awareness, intuition, and ways of understanding wellbeing that honor the full context of your life.
From noticing how your body feels, to shifting the way your body feels
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Mindful breathing for nervous system regulation
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Body awareness to notice and release tension
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Yoga Psychotherapy
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Grounding practices for anxiety and stress
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EMDR
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Walk-and-talk therapy sessions
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Tracking of body sensations
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Gentle stretching or posture awareness
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Poly-vagal informed practices
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Expressive movement for emotional processing