Somatic Therapists in Carefree, AZ
Using Somatic Experiencing, attachment-based therapy, and parts work, we’ll help your nervous system learn safety, not just talk about it.
You keep it all together for everyone else, but inside you feel anxious, disconnected, or on edge. I help adults heal the lasting impact of childhood trauma and emotional neglect so they can feel safe, connected, and confident in relationships. Together, we’ll identify the patterns that keep you stuck, regulate your nervous system, and create real emotional freedom.
These patterns aren’t your fault. They began as protection — shaped by early experiences of feeling unseen, unsafe, or not enough. Now, those same patterns block the closeness and peace you want most.
Using Somatic Experiencing, attachment-based therapy, and parts work, we’ll help your nervous system learn safety, not just talk about it.
You keep it all together for everyone else, but inside you feel anxious, disconnected, or on edge. I help adults heal the lasting impact of childhood trauma and emotional neglect so they can feel safe, connected, and confident in relationships. Together, we’ll identify the patterns that keep you stuck, regulate your nervous system, and create real emotional freedom.
These patterns aren’t your fault. They began as protection — shaped by early experiences of feeling unseen, unsafe, or not enough. Now, those same patterns block the closeness and peace you want most.
Looking for help with difficult relationships or healing from trauma? I specialize in working with adults and teens who have experienced complex trauma or are navigating life transitions. I provide sliding scale fees to reduce financial barriers to accessing therapy. I incorporate somatosensory practices, expressive arts, EMDR and Flash to help you heal from trauma.
You may be feeling ready for a change and need support moving forward. You may be struggling with attachment relationships. You may be feeling overwhelmed. You may be struggling with anxiety and navigating work or school. I’d be glad to set up a time to connect!
Looking for help with difficult relationships or healing from trauma? I specialize in working with adults and teens who have experienced complex trauma or are navigating life transitions. I provide sliding scale fees to reduce financial barriers to accessing therapy. I incorporate somatosensory practices, expressive arts, EMDR and Flash to help you heal from trauma.
You may be feeling ready for a change and need support moving forward. You may be struggling with attachment relationships. You may be feeling overwhelmed. You may be struggling with anxiety and navigating work or school. I’d be glad to set up a time to connect!
Treatment may include EMDR, ERP, IFS, somatic therapy, and ACT, to process experiences, understand patterns, and build regulation skills.
If you’re here, you might be feeling stuck. Maybe you understand where your patterns come from, but that insight hasn’t actually changed the trauma responses, intrusive thoughts, emotional numbness, or coping strategies that don’t feel helpful anymore. That can be exhausting.
I offer therapy that’s compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in helping your nervous system feel safe. We’ll explore the protective patterns that once helped you survive, process difficult experiences at your pace, and create space for reflection.
Treatment may include EMDR, ERP, IFS, somatic therapy, and ACT, to process experiences, understand patterns, and build regulation skills.
If you’re here, you might be feeling stuck. Maybe you understand where your patterns come from, but that insight hasn’t actually changed the trauma responses, intrusive thoughts, emotional numbness, or coping strategies that don’t feel helpful anymore. That can be exhausting.
I offer therapy that’s compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in helping your nervous system feel safe. We’ll explore the protective patterns that once helped you survive, process difficult experiences at your pace, and create space for reflection.
When the most private parts of your life—your romantic relationship and your physical intimacy—feel broken, it colors every other part of your world. Whether you are navigating the devastation of an affair, struggling with a painful gap in desire, or feeling the weight of past trauma showing up in your relationship or in the bedroom, you don’t just need a place to talk. You need a path forward. I am a Certified Sex Therapist, who specializes in using effective therapies like the Gottman Method for communication issues and EMDR for trauma.
When the most private parts of your life—your romantic relationship and your physical intimacy—feel broken, it colors every other part of your world. Whether you are navigating the devastation of an affair, struggling with a painful gap in desire, or feeling the weight of past trauma showing up in your relationship or in the bedroom, you don’t just need a place to talk. You need a path forward. I am a Certified Sex Therapist, who specializes in using effective therapies like the Gottman Method for communication issues and EMDR for trauma.
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I am training in and use the following modalities when counseling clients: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care, Mindfulness, Client-Centered approach EMDR, and somatic therapy.
I am here to help you with trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and overall well-being. I offer specialized services in a safe and supportive environment.
I am training in and use the following modalities when counseling clients: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care, Mindfulness, Client-Centered approach EMDR, and somatic therapy.
I am here to help you with trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and overall well-being. I offer specialized services in a safe and supportive environment.
****I AM CURRENTLY CONDUCTING SESSIONS BY TELEHEALTH ONLY****I believe that you are utilizing the best coping skills you have available at any particular moment. Sometimes, despite best efforts, you might get stuck. You might feel like you have approached a problem area from all angles. Prolonged stress can make matters worse. It is not uncommon for life to feel, "out of balance." My philosophy is to try to re-gain balance. To feel like all parts of your life are in sync. Further, I believe that true happiness is possible once you reach your highest potential.
****I AM CURRENTLY CONDUCTING SESSIONS BY TELEHEALTH ONLY****I believe that you are utilizing the best coping skills you have available at any particular moment. Sometimes, despite best efforts, you might get stuck. You might feel like you have approached a problem area from all angles. Prolonged stress can make matters worse. It is not uncommon for life to feel, "out of balance." My philosophy is to try to re-gain balance. To feel like all parts of your life are in sync. Further, I believe that true happiness is possible once you reach your highest potential.
Welcome! I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with over a decade of experience. I specialize in helping men and couples—particularly those from diverse sexual orientations and cultural backgrounds—navigate relationship challenges and emotional intimacy without shame. My approach is direct yet compassionate, creating a space where you can be real and feel supported. I work with individuals and couples dealing with PTSD, anxiety, stress, and life transitions.
Welcome! I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with over a decade of experience. I specialize in helping men and couples—particularly those from diverse sexual orientations and cultural backgrounds—navigate relationship challenges and emotional intimacy without shame. My approach is direct yet compassionate, creating a space where you can be real and feel supported. I work with individuals and couples dealing with PTSD, anxiety, stress, and life transitions.
Paula Johnson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CCTP, CFTP
7 Endorsed
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Waitlist for new clients
Hello, and welcome! I’m honored you’re here. I work with a diverse range of clients and draw from multiple therapeutic approaches to tailor treatment to each person’s unique needs and goals. Over the years, I’ve learned that no single therapy works for everyone. Many of my clients come through referrals and word of mouth, and I often maintain a waitlist. If you’re reading this, I encourage you to reach out—I may have an opening available soon. I look forward to connecting with you.
Hello, and welcome! I’m honored you’re here. I work with a diverse range of clients and draw from multiple therapeutic approaches to tailor treatment to each person’s unique needs and goals. Over the years, I’ve learned that no single therapy works for everyone. Many of my clients come through referrals and word of mouth, and I often maintain a waitlist. If you’re reading this, I encourage you to reach out—I may have an opening available soon. I look forward to connecting with you.
Dr. Shannon Moseley, Balanced Living Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC-S, LPCC, LMHC, CCTP-II
1 Endorsed
Online Only
In my practice, I support clients navigating depression, stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, family conflict, and trauma. I strive to create a warm, open, and safe space where your thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. Think of me as having a “therapeutic toolbelt”. Together, with your feedback, we’ll choose the approaches that fit you best and create a truly personalized therapy experience.My work is grounded in a holistic perspective, honoring the connection between mind, body, and emotions.
In my practice, I support clients navigating depression, stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, family conflict, and trauma. I strive to create a warm, open, and safe space where your thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. Think of me as having a “therapeutic toolbelt”. Together, with your feedback, we’ll choose the approaches that fit you best and create a truly personalized therapy experience.My work is grounded in a holistic perspective, honoring the connection between mind, body, and emotions.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Trauma Resolution Model (TRM- Somatic), Post-Induction Therapy (PIT) are affective integrative tools to address stress injuries and trauma.
Live in your fullest potential! Discovery & Wellness Counseling specializes in assisting individuals to rebuild a connection with themselves. Stress injuries, trauma, codependency, compulsive tendencies, anxiety and depression create disconnection. Utilizing Trauma Informed Care, Discovery & Wellness helps unlock your potential and assists you in moving forward by addressing and healing the core issues that create the disconnection. Getting to the root of the matter facilitates quicker change, reconnection and the opportunity to move forward again.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Trauma Resolution Model (TRM- Somatic), Post-Induction Therapy (PIT) are affective integrative tools to address stress injuries and trauma.
Live in your fullest potential! Discovery & Wellness Counseling specializes in assisting individuals to rebuild a connection with themselves. Stress injuries, trauma, codependency, compulsive tendencies, anxiety and depression create disconnection. Utilizing Trauma Informed Care, Discovery & Wellness helps unlock your potential and assists you in moving forward by addressing and healing the core issues that create the disconnection. Getting to the root of the matter facilitates quicker change, reconnection and the opportunity to move forward again.
Are you simply Surviving and want to be Thriving? Are you experiencing anxiety, chronic pains, irritability, depression, or just overall stress? My innate passion is helping others feel connected, valued, heard, and appreciated. I've deepened this passion with professional training to provide over a decade worth of psychotherapy and have experience of over two decades within the field of Behavioral Health and Wellness.
Are you simply Surviving and want to be Thriving? Are you experiencing anxiety, chronic pains, irritability, depression, or just overall stress? My innate passion is helping others feel connected, valued, heard, and appreciated. I've deepened this passion with professional training to provide over a decade worth of psychotherapy and have experience of over two decades within the field of Behavioral Health and Wellness.
I utilize a variety of methods, including cognitive, creative, and somatic to integrate mind, body, and spirit to lead to a more whole and complete sense of self.
I truly love working with parents. Through my years as a teacher, foster parent, play therapist, and mother, I know how children can bring out the worst and best in each of us. Drawing from an attachment perspective, I work with parents to uncover current, past, and generational traumas to get to the roots of unhelpful coping patterns.
I utilize a variety of methods, including cognitive, creative, and somatic to integrate mind, body, and spirit to lead to a more whole and complete sense of self.
I truly love working with parents. Through my years as a teacher, foster parent, play therapist, and mother, I know how children can bring out the worst and best in each of us. Drawing from an attachment perspective, I work with parents to uncover current, past, and generational traumas to get to the roots of unhelpful coping patterns.
Are you going through a difficult season that has left you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of how to move forward? Having a place you feel safe enough to be honest and human can help bear the weight of painful experiences. Although safety is key, therapy at times can be uncomfortable in order to challenge growth. As a therapist, I work alongside you in order to gain insight around unresolved pain, clarify values that provide meaningful change, and challenge long-term growth.
Are you going through a difficult season that has left you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of how to move forward? Having a place you feel safe enough to be honest and human can help bear the weight of painful experiences. Although safety is key, therapy at times can be uncomfortable in order to challenge growth. As a therapist, I work alongside you in order to gain insight around unresolved pain, clarify values that provide meaningful change, and challenge long-term growth.
Tatiana is a bilingual (English/Spanish) current graduate student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Tatiana creates a compassionate, collaborative space where clients feel truly seen, heard, and supported in their healing. She empowers each person to move at their own pace, honoring their story and their inner wisdom along the way.
Tatiana is a bilingual (English/Spanish) current graduate student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Tatiana creates a compassionate, collaborative space where clients feel truly seen, heard, and supported in their healing. She empowers each person to move at their own pace, honoring their story and their inner wisdom along the way.
I help guide individuals seeking meaningful change and deeper self-understanding, often navigating life transitions, anxiety, or a sense of feeling stuck. Those who value personal growth and want tools to manage overwhelming emotions, improve relationships, and align their lives with their core values. I aim to help those who are motivated by a desire for clarity, balance, and purpose, who want to feel empowered, resilient, and fully engaged in their lives. Together, we can work toward uncovering strengths, breaking unhelpful patterns, and building strategies that support lasting well-being and fulfillment.
I help guide individuals seeking meaningful change and deeper self-understanding, often navigating life transitions, anxiety, or a sense of feeling stuck. Those who value personal growth and want tools to manage overwhelming emotions, improve relationships, and align their lives with their core values. I aim to help those who are motivated by a desire for clarity, balance, and purpose, who want to feel empowered, resilient, and fully engaged in their lives. Together, we can work toward uncovering strengths, breaking unhelpful patterns, and building strategies that support lasting well-being and fulfillment.
I am licensed in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. Many of my clients come to me feeling disconnected from their authentic selves, exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure how to feel safe—in their own bodies, in relationships, or in community. If this is you, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to navigate this process without support. I specialize in complex trauma rooted in abuse, broken family systems, religious environments, and social expectations. Many of my clients learn they are late-discovered Neurodivergent adults who are ready to release the weight of trying to fit and are ready to find themselves beyond the trauma.
I am licensed in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. Many of my clients come to me feeling disconnected from their authentic selves, exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure how to feel safe—in their own bodies, in relationships, or in community. If this is you, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to navigate this process without support. I specialize in complex trauma rooted in abuse, broken family systems, religious environments, and social expectations. Many of my clients learn they are late-discovered Neurodivergent adults who are ready to release the weight of trying to fit and are ready to find themselves beyond the trauma.
I utilize a Somatic approach, aimed to give a voice to the body and to the trauma that it may be holding in a space that is safe and supportive.
Clients are supported in achieving a more regulated nervous system, recognizing, and changing false and limiting self -beliefs, and finding ways to increase joy and peace in their lives and relationships.
I utilize a Somatic approach, aimed to give a voice to the body and to the trauma that it may be holding in a space that is safe and supportive.
Clients are supported in achieving a more regulated nervous system, recognizing, and changing false and limiting self -beliefs, and finding ways to increase joy and peace in their lives and relationships.
I am a queer, non-binary clinician with ADHD, and I am passionate about helping people to live their most authentic and meaningful lives. I take a radical feminist and anti-capitalist approach to therapy, exploring the impact that oppression and discrimination has on one's mental health and well-being. I believe each client is the expert of their own lives, and I work in collaboration with my clients to find the treatment approach that works best for them.
I am a queer, non-binary clinician with ADHD, and I am passionate about helping people to live their most authentic and meaningful lives. I take a radical feminist and anti-capitalist approach to therapy, exploring the impact that oppression and discrimination has on one's mental health and well-being. I believe each client is the expert of their own lives, and I work in collaboration with my clients to find the treatment approach that works best for them.
I specifically utilize somatic-based modalities (work with the body) to help inform the next right step in therapy.
You've always carried so much for your family, and in many ways are considered a trailblazer. Your family came to this country, and life growing up was complex for you as you navigated barriers, culture, your own self-doubt and shame for creating a different path, or wanting something different. It's getting harder to live in both worlds...what will my (insert here: family, friends, community, children) think of me? Meanwhile, you are noticing it may be harder to sleep, body pain where there was none, more frequent headaches or instrusive thoughts, restlessness...and you are here just seeking some relief and a path forward.
I specifically utilize somatic-based modalities (work with the body) to help inform the next right step in therapy.
You've always carried so much for your family, and in many ways are considered a trailblazer. Your family came to this country, and life growing up was complex for you as you navigated barriers, culture, your own self-doubt and shame for creating a different path, or wanting something different. It's getting harder to live in both worlds...what will my (insert here: family, friends, community, children) think of me? Meanwhile, you are noticing it may be harder to sleep, body pain where there was none, more frequent headaches or instrusive thoughts, restlessness...and you are here just seeking some relief and a path forward.
Fortitude can be cultivated through adversity; and while life experiences are chapters in our story, they do not define who we are or how the story must end. The passion I have for reflecting light and empowering others to see their authority and their gift is rooted in my personal story and testimony of resilience, despite adversity. I have witnessed and experienced the power, meaning, and value of commitment to growth and healing and I firmly believe in the therapeutic process and its results. We all deserve the opportunity to see a reflection of our inner strengths and experience a sense of empowerment in our healing and growth.
Fortitude can be cultivated through adversity; and while life experiences are chapters in our story, they do not define who we are or how the story must end. The passion I have for reflecting light and empowering others to see their authority and their gift is rooted in my personal story and testimony of resilience, despite adversity. I have witnessed and experienced the power, meaning, and value of commitment to growth and healing and I firmly believe in the therapeutic process and its results. We all deserve the opportunity to see a reflection of our inner strengths and experience a sense of empowerment in our healing and growth.
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Somatic Therapists
How does somatic therapy work?
Somatic therapy is a form of treatment that focuses on how the body and mind are interconnected. In this approach, physical symptoms are addressed because they may in fact signal emotional distress. Somatic therapists combine mindfulness, talk therapy, breathwork, yoga, dance, and physical manipulations of the body to help patients become more attuned to what their body is telling them.
Is EMDR a somatic therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a form of somatic therapy, as it incorporates mental and physical principles. EMDR involves remembering a traumatic experience while allowing one’s eyes to track a side-to-side visual stimulus from a therapist. This lateral eye movement is believed to diminish the painful power of the memory so that it can be discussed with a therapist.
Is somatic therapy evidence-based?
Somatic therapy has been researched and studied, and some forms of somatic therapy are found to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Because somatic therapy encompasses many techniques, some, such as EMDR and meditation, have been studied more than others.
What is somatic trauma therapy?
Somatic trauma therapy is based on the idea that when people experience trauma, they can become stuck in the “freeze” part of a “fight, flight, or freeze” response. In this state, trauma can manifest itself both mentally and physically—through tension in the muscles, anxiety, and stress. Popular forms of somatic trauma therapy include EMDR, sensorimotor therapy, and somatic experiencing.