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Specialized Approaches

Somatic Therapy

Body-aware support for stress, trauma, and emotional regulation

Somatic therapy helps you notice and work with how stress, trauma, and emotion live in the body, not just in thoughts.

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When This Can Help
  • Stress or trauma feels intensely physical in your body
  • You feel disconnected from your body or nervous system cues
  • You want support beyond insight or talk therapy alone
  • You are looking for more regulation, grounding, and presence
Support May Include
  • Increasing awareness of body-based stress and trauma patterns
  • Building regulation through grounded, body-aware practices
  • Supporting emotional healing with the nervous system in mind
Good Match For

Adults and young adults

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Many people understand their experiences intellectually but still feel activated, shut down, or overwhelmed in their bodies. Somatic therapy can help you reconnect with bodily cues, nervous system responses, and a greater sense of internal steadiness.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

Our therapists use somatic work gently and collaboratively. The focus is often on awareness, regulation, and helping your system experience more safety, flexibility, and choice over time.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to somatic therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Logan Rolle, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor. Logan is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Logan Rolle, APCC

Associate Therapist