Somatic Therapists in Newport, VT
Camilla McKenzie
Verified Verified
Newport, VT 05855
Waitlist for new clients
Your experiences are unique, and your strengths can be harnessed to navigate challenging events. My approach is rooted in creating a safe and non-judgmental space to achieve your well-being goals. We can engage with any aspect of human development or well-being components you wish to explore, including but not limited to mental health, communication, self-awareness, social-emotional learning, educational empowerment, and cognitive development.
Your experiences are unique, and your strengths can be harnessed to navigate challenging events. My approach is rooted in creating a safe and non-judgmental space to achieve your well-being goals. We can engage with any aspect of human development or well-being components you wish to explore, including but not limited to mental health, communication, self-awareness, social-emotional learning, educational empowerment, and cognitive development.
April Marie Bodette
Counselor, MS, LCMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Newport, VT 05855
My role in the scope of my practice is being a guide providing a safe, empathetic, and no judgement space for us to work together as we find the right path for you to follow. I believe in a balanced life style connecting the mind with the body while making sure your basic needs are met. I find working together on issues related to trauma, abandonment, attachment, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and transitioning from one life experience to the next, very rewarding. I have experience with children, families, youth, teenagers, adults and the aging population.
My role in the scope of my practice is being a guide providing a safe, empathetic, and no judgement space for us to work together as we find the right path for you to follow. I believe in a balanced life style connecting the mind with the body while making sure your basic needs are met. I find working together on issues related to trauma, abandonment, attachment, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and transitioning from one life experience to the next, very rewarding. I have experience with children, families, youth, teenagers, adults and the aging population.
Reining Hope Counseling Services, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCMHC, ESMHL, MSW
Verified Verified
Newport, VT 05855
Waitlist for new clients
Have you, a friend/partner/family member experienced a traumatic event - loss of loved one, loss of child, loss of pet, a life-changing event, verbal/emotional/sexual abuse - and need help processing the grief, regaining control of your life, rebuilding your self-confidence/self-esteem? Do you or someone you know have issues with substance use and are seeking assistance in identifying challenges that have kept you or your loved one from breaking through barriers of addiction toward recovery? Are you a youth/family needing help identifying positive communication/coping strategies, managing anger, or identifying triggers of anxiety?
Have you, a friend/partner/family member experienced a traumatic event - loss of loved one, loss of child, loss of pet, a life-changing event, verbal/emotional/sexual abuse - and need help processing the grief, regaining control of your life, rebuilding your self-confidence/self-esteem? Do you or someone you know have issues with substance use and are seeking assistance in identifying challenges that have kept you or your loved one from breaking through barriers of addiction toward recovery? Are you a youth/family needing help identifying positive communication/coping strategies, managing anger, or identifying triggers of anxiety?
Ezra Maurer
Psychologist, MA
Verified Verified
Newport, VT 05855
In private practice since 2006, I continue to feel honored to get to know my clients. My hope with each person is that we will create a space together in which a unique healing relationship may unfold. To facilitate that space, I tend to focus on your feelings and how they are held in the body; on past experiences and how they relate to current feelings and relational patterns; on how relational patterns may be being repeated within the therapy; on the richness of your internal world (that emerges, for example, in dreams, daydreams, artwork, etc.); and on awareness itself, within which all of the above happens.
In private practice since 2006, I continue to feel honored to get to know my clients. My hope with each person is that we will create a space together in which a unique healing relationship may unfold. To facilitate that space, I tend to focus on your feelings and how they are held in the body; on past experiences and how they relate to current feelings and relational patterns; on how relational patterns may be being repeated within the therapy; on the richness of your internal world (that emerges, for example, in dreams, daydreams, artwork, etc.); and on awareness itself, within which all of the above happens.
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Angie A Starr
Counselor, MA, LCMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Derby, VT 05829
Life can present many unexpected challenges, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. These challenges can impact our relationships and daily functioning. In our work together we will identify and develop, internal and external resources that support your ability to heal and to live in a more integrated, balanced way.
Life can present many unexpected challenges, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. These challenges can impact our relationships and daily functioning. In our work together we will identify and develop, internal and external resources that support your ability to heal and to live in a more integrated, balanced way.
Online Therapists
Finding Ways LLC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
South Burlington, VT 05403 (Online Only)
Through Finding Ways LLC I work over telehealth with individuals that identify as LGBTQIA+. Often people come to me with depression, trauma, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders and a desire to live with less shame and more ease. Through Deep Dance LLC coaching work I use more somatic movement and dance practices to help support people with their goals and through blockages to them. I am passionate about serving LGBTQIA+ folks and acknowledge intersectionality of various identities within each individual. Sliding scale options are full at this time
Through Finding Ways LLC I work over telehealth with individuals that identify as LGBTQIA+. Often people come to me with depression, trauma, anxiety, relationship issues, eating disorders and a desire to live with less shame and more ease. Through Deep Dance LLC coaching work I use more somatic movement and dance practices to help support people with their goals and through blockages to them. I am passionate about serving LGBTQIA+ folks and acknowledge intersectionality of various identities within each individual. Sliding scale options are full at this time
Heather Parker
Counselor, MA, LCMHC
Verified Verified
Burlington, VT 05401
Providing Supervision to Licensed and Pre-Licensed Therapists, Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist and Certified Consultant, Internal Family Systems Psychotherapist. The development of a gentle curiosity of one's internal experience becomes the basis for compassion and authentic expression. This contemplative relationship with oneself can then expand the way in which we connect and relate to others. Therapeutic style is interactive, while encouraging the client's inner consciousness to guide the process. Use of somatic, parts work, and strength-based modalities that view individuals as having an innate propensity toward health.
Providing Supervision to Licensed and Pre-Licensed Therapists, Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist and Certified Consultant, Internal Family Systems Psychotherapist. The development of a gentle curiosity of one's internal experience becomes the basis for compassion and authentic expression. This contemplative relationship with oneself can then expand the way in which we connect and relate to others. Therapeutic style is interactive, while encouraging the client's inner consciousness to guide the process. Use of somatic, parts work, and strength-based modalities that view individuals as having an innate propensity toward health.
Andrew Reidenbach
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Burlington, VT 05405
In addition to this relational way of practicing, I sprinkle in behavioral and somatic interventions - including Attachment-Focused EMDR - throughout our sessions to bolster your daily toolkit in order to reduce the severity of your symptoms, augment your sense of self-efficacy, and enhance your ability to experience and regulate your emotions.
I approach therapy with curiosity, connection, insight, compassion, and a splash of humor. I aim to create an environment where you can feel safe to explore, discover and embrace your truest and highest self. I believe an essential task of therapy is to foster reflection in order to develop self-awareness, leading to a greater ability to effectively navigate life. I primarily practice through a relational and attachment-based psychodynamic lens. I believe that the relationship dynamics you have with yourself, others, and the world are the primary factors in both emotional well-being and emotional distress.
In addition to this relational way of practicing, I sprinkle in behavioral and somatic interventions - including Attachment-Focused EMDR - throughout our sessions to bolster your daily toolkit in order to reduce the severity of your symptoms, augment your sense of self-efficacy, and enhance your ability to experience and regulate your emotions.
I approach therapy with curiosity, connection, insight, compassion, and a splash of humor. I aim to create an environment where you can feel safe to explore, discover and embrace your truest and highest self. I believe an essential task of therapy is to foster reflection in order to develop self-awareness, leading to a greater ability to effectively navigate life. I primarily practice through a relational and attachment-based psychodynamic lens. I believe that the relationship dynamics you have with yourself, others, and the world are the primary factors in both emotional well-being and emotional distress.
Kyla Suarez
Registered Psychotherapist, MS, RYT-500, Y4C
Verified Verified
Hartland, VT 05048 (Online Only)
Through EMDR, IFS, Attachment Therapy, Somatic Releases, honor the Inner-Child(ren), Yoga and the 8 Foundations of Wellness we will focus on regulating your nervous system so that we can then do the cognitive work together.
Please email to inquire about consultation. I strive to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space for you to rediscover your truest self and remain an observant student to the challenges you are confronting. I will support you in facing fear so you can overcome challenges, achieve your goals and love yourself. You will learn ways to regulate your mind and body to support your goals and honor yourself. I support clients that are open and willing to dive deep and begin the practice of believing in themselves, remembering that you are amazing and loving your inner-child as well as connect to other inner-parts (IFS) of yourself.
Through EMDR, IFS, Attachment Therapy, Somatic Releases, honor the Inner-Child(ren), Yoga and the 8 Foundations of Wellness we will focus on regulating your nervous system so that we can then do the cognitive work together.
Please email to inquire about consultation. I strive to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space for you to rediscover your truest self and remain an observant student to the challenges you are confronting. I will support you in facing fear so you can overcome challenges, achieve your goals and love yourself. You will learn ways to regulate your mind and body to support your goals and honor yourself. I support clients that are open and willing to dive deep and begin the practice of believing in themselves, remembering that you are amazing and loving your inner-child as well as connect to other inner-parts (IFS) of yourself.
Madeleine Balcom
Counselor, MA, LCMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Saint Johnsbury, VT 05819
Holistic and creative counseling for optimal mental, emotional and somatic wellbeing. Engage in a healing journey that incorporates mindfulness, therapeutic yoga, breathing exercises and visualizations. Client-centered approach allows you to start with your priorities and grow at your own pace.
Holistic and creative counseling for optimal mental, emotional and somatic wellbeing. Engage in a healing journey that incorporates mindfulness, therapeutic yoga, breathing exercises and visualizations. Client-centered approach allows you to start with your priorities and grow at your own pace.
Reyna Morgan-Richer
Pre-Licensed Professional, MS, CMHC
Verified Verified
Middlebury, VT 05753 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Being a human comes with so many challenges including various types of loss, change, transitions, interactions... and navigating these can be no small feat. Along side that is our ever transforming relationships with self worth, self love and self growth. Our conversations will be guided by your concerns and we will explore how you desire change or help managing. I find value in working with mindfulness and somatic based practices to help you through life transitions, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, grief, or stressful times in your life. You've got to feel it to heal it is a saying dear to my heart.
Being a human comes with so many challenges including various types of loss, change, transitions, interactions... and navigating these can be no small feat. Along side that is our ever transforming relationships with self worth, self love and self growth. Our conversations will be guided by your concerns and we will explore how you desire change or help managing. I find value in working with mindfulness and somatic based practices to help you through life transitions, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, grief, or stressful times in your life. You've got to feel it to heal it is a saying dear to my heart.
Ambar Ortiz
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Winooski, VT 05404
I employ practices from somatic experiencing, DBT, IFS, & mindfulness techniques, amongst other therapeutic strategies in session.
If you have made it this far, I commend you for your courage. Seeking support is a huge step! The longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve understood that life brings both joy and pain, success and failure, beginnings and endings, and this duality can often bring dissonance within us, as we work to make meaning of it all. Healing and wellness are deeply personal to everyone’s journey, and I aim to honor your diverse life experiences through this work. On this journey, we’ll create an environment where you can be free to explore who you are, your needs, your values, and the priorities for your life in a safe space.
I employ practices from somatic experiencing, DBT, IFS, & mindfulness techniques, amongst other therapeutic strategies in session.
If you have made it this far, I commend you for your courage. Seeking support is a huge step! The longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve understood that life brings both joy and pain, success and failure, beginnings and endings, and this duality can often bring dissonance within us, as we work to make meaning of it all. Healing and wellness are deeply personal to everyone’s journey, and I aim to honor your diverse life experiences through this work. On this journey, we’ll create an environment where you can be free to explore who you are, your needs, your values, and the priorities for your life in a safe space.
Anne E Connor
SEP, MAW, MATESOL
Verified Verified
Calais, VT 05648
Would you like to learn about strengthening resilience to further trauma and stress in your body and mind? My goal is to teach you somatic tools that you can use independently for a relationship with a more settled, grounded nervous system. I can help you create a calmer nervous system free of the higher highs and lower lows of trauma activation. Greater regulation can help you resolve stress and increase health. Together we can reduce anxiety and startle response, lessen fatigue, address pain and inflammation and learn about regulation. If you are curious about resolving trauma responses in your nervous system, I can help.
Would you like to learn about strengthening resilience to further trauma and stress in your body and mind? My goal is to teach you somatic tools that you can use independently for a relationship with a more settled, grounded nervous system. I can help you create a calmer nervous system free of the higher highs and lower lows of trauma activation. Greater regulation can help you resolve stress and increase health. Together we can reduce anxiety and startle response, lessen fatigue, address pain and inflammation and learn about regulation. If you are curious about resolving trauma responses in your nervous system, I can help.
Sada Dumont
Counselor, MS, LCMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Richmond, VT 05477
Waitlist for new clients
My somatic therapy approach facilitates a re-connection with your physical experience, enabling you to enhance emotional awareness and utilize your body as a powerful tool.
If you're looking to achieve personal growth, connection, and wellness, and overcome the challenges holding you back, I can help. As a compassionate and curious therapist, I specialize in guiding adults who seek change, growth, insight, and joy in their lives. If you feel stuck, particularly with anxiety and depression, or if you've experienced trauma and find yourself overwhelmed by its effects, I am here to help you transform your experiences. Drawing upon my skills in neurofeedback, I employ brain training techniques to optimize cognitive function and dissolve stubborn symptoms that may have resisted previous approaches.
My somatic therapy approach facilitates a re-connection with your physical experience, enabling you to enhance emotional awareness and utilize your body as a powerful tool.
If you're looking to achieve personal growth, connection, and wellness, and overcome the challenges holding you back, I can help. As a compassionate and curious therapist, I specialize in guiding adults who seek change, growth, insight, and joy in their lives. If you feel stuck, particularly with anxiety and depression, or if you've experienced trauma and find yourself overwhelmed by its effects, I am here to help you transform your experiences. Drawing upon my skills in neurofeedback, I employ brain training techniques to optimize cognitive function and dissolve stubborn symptoms that may have resisted previous approaches.
Samuel David Markewich
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Montpelier, VT 05602
Waitlist for new clients
I work in a combination of somatic, emotionally-focused, family systems, PRT, and skills-based approaches.
My focus is in helping families, couples, teens, and adults to heal from the direct and indirect effects of trauma and build healthy lives and relationships. Trauma shows up in many ways, some obvious and some not realized to be trauma by the person or people going through it. It can have many effects, including fear, anxiety, depression, numbness, chronic pain, negative thoughts, anger, feeling out of control, feeling like it's your fault, not feeling normal, feeling a sense of needing to keep busy, panic, self-harm, relationship difficulties, family difficulties, shutting down, isolating, or being uncomfortable being alone.
I work in a combination of somatic, emotionally-focused, family systems, PRT, and skills-based approaches.
My focus is in helping families, couples, teens, and adults to heal from the direct and indirect effects of trauma and build healthy lives and relationships. Trauma shows up in many ways, some obvious and some not realized to be trauma by the person or people going through it. It can have many effects, including fear, anxiety, depression, numbness, chronic pain, negative thoughts, anger, feeling out of control, feeling like it's your fault, not feeling normal, feeling a sense of needing to keep busy, panic, self-harm, relationship difficulties, family difficulties, shutting down, isolating, or being uncomfortable being alone.
Rachel Buckner
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
Burlington, VT 05401 (Online Only)
I incorporate a variety of modalities including narrative, IFS, attachment, & somatic frameworks to support clients in the healing of emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual issues.
My practice is rooted in self-compassion, curiosity, and embodied healing. Together, we will work collaboratively to help untangle internalized narratives, discover blocked parts of self, and enhance mind-body awareness to support you in reconnecting with your self-worth, self-trust, body wisdom, and inner creativity. In sessions, I strive to create an empathic and creative space where you can bring all parts of yourself forward. Our time together will involve gaining a deeper understanding of your story, creating holistic goals based on your unique life circumstances, and working towards meaningful change.
I incorporate a variety of modalities including narrative, IFS, attachment, & somatic frameworks to support clients in the healing of emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual issues.
My practice is rooted in self-compassion, curiosity, and embodied healing. Together, we will work collaboratively to help untangle internalized narratives, discover blocked parts of self, and enhance mind-body awareness to support you in reconnecting with your self-worth, self-trust, body wisdom, and inner creativity. In sessions, I strive to create an empathic and creative space where you can bring all parts of yourself forward. Our time together will involve gaining a deeper understanding of your story, creating holistic goals based on your unique life circumstances, and working towards meaningful change.
Shaina Levee, M.A.
Registered Psychotherapist, MA
Verified Verified
Stowe, VT 05672 (Online Only)
Accepting clients 3/1/2024. Offering a somatic approach that is trauma-informed, heart-centered and integrative. I work with children, teens, and adults undergoing life transitions, or who are recovering from challenging circumstances or trauma. I offer couples and family sessions in addition to individual sessions. I specialize in pregnancy/postpartum/parenting, TBI & head injury, and additionally support people undergoing grief and loss. "Shaina has helped me find my strength, confidence and embrace the challenge of motherhood as a deep practice. Seeing Shaina has been the best gift I could give to myself and my family." VT & MI.
Accepting clients 3/1/2024. Offering a somatic approach that is trauma-informed, heart-centered and integrative. I work with children, teens, and adults undergoing life transitions, or who are recovering from challenging circumstances or trauma. I offer couples and family sessions in addition to individual sessions. I specialize in pregnancy/postpartum/parenting, TBI & head injury, and additionally support people undergoing grief and loss. "Shaina has helped me find my strength, confidence and embrace the challenge of motherhood as a deep practice. Seeing Shaina has been the best gift I could give to myself and my family." VT & MI.
Hillary Holmes
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Essex Junction, VT 05452 (Online Only)
Using a combination of therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and other somatic methods, as well as EMDR and Internal Family Systems, my aim is to help individuals identify when they or their bodies are stuck in old habits, to validate their experience and intentionally choose the path forward that aligns with their current goals.
"Long-lasting responses to trauma result not simply from the experience of fear and helplessness but also from how our bodies interpret those experiences." (Rachel Yehuda) Trauma can be thought of as an experience that overwhelms the individual's ability to process the event as it is happening. I work with preteens, adolescents and adults who have been impacted by trauma, to help bring relief to their lives. By partnering with individuals to help release stress, we help you create a fresh, new framework for future experiences.
Using a combination of therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and other somatic methods, as well as EMDR and Internal Family Systems, my aim is to help individuals identify when they or their bodies are stuck in old habits, to validate their experience and intentionally choose the path forward that aligns with their current goals.
"Long-lasting responses to trauma result not simply from the experience of fear and helplessness but also from how our bodies interpret those experiences." (Rachel Yehuda) Trauma can be thought of as an experience that overwhelms the individual's ability to process the event as it is happening. I work with preteens, adolescents and adults who have been impacted by trauma, to help bring relief to their lives. By partnering with individuals to help release stress, we help you create a fresh, new framework for future experiences.
Jay Gleason
Counselor, MS, LCMHC, LADC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Montpelier, VT 05602
I love the "talking cure" as much as I enjoy using Trauma Releasing Exercises®, EMDR, and other somatic approaches to help you change habitual patterns and face yourself differently.
Change is possible. If we believe the research, therapy works regardless of the modal of therapy. Some of my clients value mind-body techniques, including Trauma Releasing Exercises®, Chinese Medicine, EMDR, and Emmett Techniques, to help change happen. Sometimes the most challenging part is starting.
I love the "talking cure" as much as I enjoy using Trauma Releasing Exercises®, EMDR, and other somatic approaches to help you change habitual patterns and face yourself differently.
Change is possible. If we believe the research, therapy works regardless of the modal of therapy. Some of my clients value mind-body techniques, including Trauma Releasing Exercises®, Chinese Medicine, EMDR, and Emmett Techniques, to help change happen. Sometimes the most challenging part is starting.
Carina Antonino DiMare
Counselor, MS, LCMHC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Montpelier, VT 05602
Waitlist for new clients
I am guided by humanistic, psychodynamic, somatic and mindfulness-based therapeutic perspectives.
I offer support to individuals in their process of cultivating insight, deepening self-awareness and making purposeful change. With curiosity and compassion, we will explore inner emotional experiences, thought processes and relational patterns. I strive to support my clients in living in alignment with their most wise, easeful and connected selves. Through a commitment to look within, I believe that healing, growth and relief from suffering can occur.
I am guided by humanistic, psychodynamic, somatic and mindfulness-based therapeutic perspectives.
I offer support to individuals in their process of cultivating insight, deepening self-awareness and making purposeful change. With curiosity and compassion, we will explore inner emotional experiences, thought processes and relational patterns. I strive to support my clients in living in alignment with their most wise, easeful and connected selves. Through a commitment to look within, I believe that healing, growth and relief from suffering can occur.
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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.