I’d been diagnosed with PTSD, depression, and anxiety from childhood. I’ve mostly struggled with feeling disconnected from myself and those around me, broken and helpless. I’d get wildly overwhelmed in life and shut most people out because that was the only pattern I’d ever learned. This made intimacy very hard and super triggering as it […]
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My son experiences Calm
I initially sought out Somatic Therapy Partners looking for a way to help my teenage son with developmental trauma (drug exposure in utero and post-birth attachment disruption). My son’s therapist developed a rapport with him necessary to do the table work, and the benefits to my son since they have been doing table work together […]
Fear doesn’t stop me anymore
I am less concerned with playing the game and trying to be normal and more willing to be who I really am. I’m finding myself willing to take more risks being who I am. Paradoxically, the fear hasn’t gone away, but now it doesn’t stop me. Instead of being a paralyzing fear, I’m able to […]
The most grounded I’ve ever felt
After several years in traditional talk therapy, I felt like I needed a different approach to help me heal symptoms of trauma and my daily battle with anxiety and an eating disorder. The first time I did table work with my therapist at Somatic Therapy Partners, it felt like nothing I’d ever experienced before. Like […]
Too much to face on my own
I sought out therapy at Somatic Therapy Partners because I knew that the depression and anxiety I was dealing with was too much for me to face on my own. I was so overwhelmed in my life that I felt quite helpless; I had frequent panic attacks, larger scale depressive episodes, and I was stuck […]