Mindfulness + Somatic Therapy
Virtual therapy in Oregon and California
When you spend so much time in your head, it can be easy to lose touch with the rest of you.
Maybe you’re constantly thinking about what needs to happen next. Replaying something you said yesterday. Mentally running through your to-do list. Worrying about a conversation that hasn’t even happened yet.
Meanwhile, your body is tense, your jaw is clenched, your shoulders are somewhere near your ears, and you barely notice.
Mindfulness and somatic therapy help us slow things down and pay attention to what’s happening right now.
What does that actually mean?
Mindfulness is about learning to notice your thoughts, emotions, and experiences without immediately getting swept away by them.
Somatic therapy brings your body into that conversation too.
Instead of only asking, “What am I thinking?” we might also get curious about:
What am I feeling in my body?
Where am I holding tension?
What happens when I slow down and actually stay with this feeling for a moment?
Your body can give us information that your thinking brain sometimes misses.
Getting out of your head and back into your life
If you’re used to being productive, capable, and constantly thinking ahead, slowing down can feel surprisingly difficult.
You might not even realize how much of your day you spend disconnected from what’s happening around you—or from yourself.
Together, we might use breathing, grounding, meditation, gentle movement, body awareness, or other mindfulness and somatic practices to help you reconnect with the present moment.
And no, I’m not going to tell you to meditate for 30 minutes every morning or pretend a few deep breaths will magically make your anxiety disappear.
The goal is much more practical than that.
It’s learning how to notice when your mind is racing, recognize what your body needs, and have ways to come back to yourself.
You don’t need to be calm all the time.
Mindfulness isn’t about becoming endlessly peaceful, and somatic therapy isn’t about analyzing every sensation in your body.
It’s about building a different relationship with your internal experience—one where every anxious thought, uncomfortable feeling, or tense muscle doesn’t have to immediately take over.
Over time, you can become better at noticing what’s happening before you’re completely overwhelmed by it.
More present in conversations.
More connected to your body.
More able to actually experience your life instead of constantly thinking your way through it.
Ready to spend a little less time in your head?
I offer virtual therapy for adults in California and Oregon.
