Where your body’s story becomes a path to your healing
Whether you’re navigating trauma, anxiety, burnout, eating disorders, or body image distress, somatic therapy invites you to reconnect with your body and experience change on a deeper level.
Somatic therapy helps you find safety within yourself
Maybe you’ve tried therapy before—you understand your patterns, you know why you feel stuck—yet the same anxiety, trauma responses, or disconnection keep showing up. That’s because some experiences can’t be analyzed away. It’s not about using your mind, because these experiences live in the body.
At Guerin Therapy Group, we offer somatic therapy in Raleigh to help clients heal from the inside out. Using approaches like breathwork, mindfulness, movement, and body awareness, we work gently with the nervous system to restore safety, connection, and presence.
As much as you may like, you won’t be able to think your way out of pain. The path to healing begins in the body and grows from there into new ways of feeling, relating, and being.
What is somatic therapy?
The word soma means “body.” Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to mental health that recognizes the deep connection between your body, mind, and nervous system.
In practice, this means we may work with sensations, posture, breath, or movement—helping you notice how your body is holding emotions, memories, or survival responses. Instead of focusing only on thoughts, somatic therapy helps you explore and shift what’s happening beneath the surface.
At Guerin Therapy Group, somatic therapy is always:
- Consent-Based – You are always in charge of your process.
- Trauma-Informed – We go at your pace and affirm your boundaries.
- Culturally-Aware – We honor how identity, systems, and lived experience shape the body.
Somatic therapy is particularly supportive for those living with trauma, eating disorders, relationship struggles, or chronic stress—and for anyone who has tried talk therapy and is ready for something different.
When somatic therapy can help
If you’ve ever thought, “I know what to do, but I can’t seem to do it,” you’re not alone. Somatic therapy offers a bottom-up approach to healing that helps your nervous system move out of old, stuck patterns.
You don’t have to know “how” to be in your body to start this work.
Many clients begin therapy feeling numb, disconnected, or uncertain. Others may have a hard time connecting to sensations in their body because their brain simply doesn’t work that way. However you show up – you’ll be supported every step of the way.
A somatic therapy session may include noticing physical sensations or tension, practicing grounding tools, exploring gentle breathwork or movement, or processing emotions as they arise in the body. Sometimes it looks as simple as learning to pause, notice, and respond with curiosity.
Every session is adapted to your needs and comfort level. You’ll never be pushed into body-based work you’re not ready for. Your consent and choice come first, always.
Ready to take the next step?
If you’re searching for somatic therapy in Raleigh, NC, you don’t have to keep feeling stuck in patterns that live in your body. At Guerin Therapy Group, our therapists integrate somatic approaches with deep compassion and attunement—helping you feel more grounded, connected, and free.