Polyvagal-Informed Somatic Therapy

Polyvagal-informed therapy focuses on understanding and supporting the nervous system—how we experience safety, connection, stress, and threat. When trauma, chronic stress, or emotionally overwhelming experiences occur, the body may remain in protective survival states such as anxiety, shutdown, or reactivity, even when we logically know we are safe.

Rather than working only with thoughts or behaviors, this approach gently attends to what the body is communicating. Therapy is paced to support regulation and stability first, helping the nervous system feel safer before asking it to change.

In this work, we may explore how your nervous system responds to stress and safety, identify patterns of activation or disconnection, and build gentle tools to support grounding, regulation, and presence. The approach is collaborative, trauma-responsive, and honors the ways your system has learned to protect you.

Polyvagal-informed therapy can be especially supportive for those who feel overwhelmed, emotionally reactive, disconnected, or who find that traditional talk therapy hasn’t fully addressed what they experience in their body. This work supports learning new pathways toward safety, connection, and greater ease.