Somatic Therapy in Calgary
A gentle, body-based approach to help you feel more grounded, connected, and supported from within.
What is Somatic
Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach that honours the deep connection between your mind, body, and nervous system. When we experience stress or trauma, the body often holds tension, sensations, or emotions that talking alone can’t fully reach.
In somatic therapy, we slow down and bring gentle awareness to the body’s cues—your breath, tension, posture, or moments of settling. This isn’t about fixing anything, but about listening with curiosity and compassion. Over time, this awareness can help your system release what it has been holding and create more space for calm, safety, and presence.
Somatic therapy can support challenges such as anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, and feeling disconnected from your body. By tuning into your body’s natural wisdom, you can restore balance and reconnect with your own capacity for healing.
Somatic Therapy is an evidence-based Approach that can offer:
- Improved Mind-Body Awareness: Deepen your understanding of how emotions, stress, and past experiences are held and expressed in the body.
- Nervous System Regulation: Learn to calm your body’s stress response and restore a sense of balance, safety, and presence.
- Release of Stored Tension: Gently process and release physical sensations connected to trauma, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm.
- Greater Emotional Resilience: Build your capacity to stay grounded and present, even when facing difficult emotions or life challenges.
- Reconnection With the Self: Develop a compassionate relationship with your body, allowing for healing, integration, and a renewed sense of wholeness.
Who Somatic Therapy Can Help?
Whether you feel tense, disconnected, or simply out of balance—this work can help you come home to yourself.
Healing From Trauma: Releasing tension and restoring a sense of safety
Managing Anxiety or Overwhelm: Learning to calm and regulate the nervous system.
Those Feeling Stuck or Disconnected: Reconnecting with emotions and the body’s wisdom
Physical Tension or Fatigue: Easing the body’s response to stress and emotion..
Seeking Mind-Body Connection: Building awareness, grounding, and inner balance.
This approach helps you listen to the story your body has been trying to tell—the one it didn’t feel safe to share until now
Why Choose Somatic Therapy?
An Evidence Based Approach to Healing
- It Goes Beyond Talking: Some experiences are hard to put into words. Somatic therapy helps you access healing through the body, not just the mind.
- It Helps Your Nervous System Settle: By focusing on physical sensations and grounding, you learn how to calm your body’s stress response and feel safer from the inside out.
- It Reconnects You With Your Body’s Wisdom: You’ll begin to trust your body as an ally—listening to the stories it holds and what it needs to release.
- It Creates Lasting Change: By working gently with both body and emotion, healing becomes more integrated, leading to deeper, long-term transformation.
- It Supports Self Compassion and Presence: Somatic therapy helps you slow down, notice what’s happening within, and meet yourself with kindness and care.
Frequently Asked Questions About Somatic Therapy
Sessions are gentle and guided by your comfort. Somatic therapy is about reconnecting with your body—not just learning to tolerate discomfort, but also finding safety and comfort within it. We may use strategies like orienting to the space through your five senses, gentle movement, or noticing sensations to help your body settle and find ease
You only share what feels right for you. Somatic therapy focuses on what your body is holding, so healing can unfold without needing to retell painful memories.
While talk therapy may work through thoughts, beliefs and emotions, somatic therapy includes the body’s wisdom. It helps you recognize and release patterns held beneath words.
You may feel calmer, lighter, or more aware of your body. Healing often unfolds gradually as your nervous system learns it’s safe to rest and release.
Healing through the body takes time. The patterns we hold physically and emotionally often develop over many years, so this isn’t a quick approach. Somatic therapy invites slow, lasting change—helping your body gradually relearn safety, trust, and ease at a pace that feels right for you