Somatic Therapy & Trauma Recovery in Woodinville, WA
Release stored stress, regulate your nervous system, and move beyond traditional talk therapy with body-based healing.
Heal Through Your Body: Somatic Psychology for ADHD and Trauma
Do you feel constantly on edge, overstimulated, or emotionally reactive? Sometimes, trauma and ADHD leave the mind racing and the body tense, even when you’ve tried talk therapy alone. Somatic Psychology is a body-based approach that helps you release stored stress, regulate your nervous system, and move toward lasting calm, focus, and emotional balance.
Using Polyvagal Theory and trauma-informed techniques, we guide your nervous system out of chronic fight-flight-freeze states and into a place of safety, regulation, and grounded presence. By connecting with bodily sensations, breath, and movement, you can access healing at a deeper level—helping you feel more in control, centered, and resilient in your daily life.
How Somatic Therapy Supports ADHD
For adults with ADHD, the world can feel overwhelming, overstimulating, and exhausting. Somatic therapy provides practical, body-centered tools to:
Reduce sensory overload and calm an overactive nervous system
Improve focus, attention, and executive functioning by regulating arousal states
Manage impulsivity and emotional reactivity with awareness-based strategies
Build a sense of quiet, grounded presence amidst external and internal chaos
How Somatic Therapy Supports Trauma Healing
Trauma is stored in the body long after events occur, often showing up as tension, hypervigilance, or disconnection. Somatic therapy helps you:
Release chronic stress and tension stored in muscles and posture
Reconnect with your body and sense of safety and agency
Process emotional triggers without becoming overwhelmed
Strengthen resilience and self-regulation for healthier relationships and daily life
By working with both mind and body, somatic therapy provides a holistic, integrative approach for adults navigating ADHD, trauma, or both—helping you regain control, quiet your mind, and live with clarity, balance, and confidence.
Reconnect with Your Body, Heal Your Mind: Somatic Psychology for ADHD and Trauma
Somatic psychology helps you reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom, allowing you to process emotions, release stored trauma, and cultivate a deep sense of safety, presence, and inner balance. By integrating body awareness, mindful movement, and conscious breathwork, this approach bridges the gap between mind and body, offering a holistic path to healing that goes beyond traditional talk therapy.
Through somatic practices, you learn to recognize how stress, anxiety, ADHD overwhelm, and past trauma are held in your body—often showing up as chronic tension, fatigue, emotional reactivity, or sensory overload. By gently tuning into these sensations, instead of suppressing or overthinking them, you create space for nervous system regulation, emotional transformation, and lasting resilience.
How Somatic Therapy Supports ADHD and Trauma
Regulate your nervous system to reduce overwhelm and impulsivity
Release stored stress and trauma that impacts your focus, mood, and relationships
Develop emotional resilience through body-centered awareness and grounding techniques
Build a deeper connection with yourself, increasing self-compassion and confidence
Move beyond reactive patterns, fostering clarity, calm, and presence in daily life
Somatic therapy strengthens mind-body integration, helping you manage ADHD symptoms like distractibility, hyperactivity, and executive function challenges, while also supporting trauma recovery. By working directly with your body’s signals, you can retrain your nervous system, break free from chronic stress cycles, and feel more at home in your body and your life.
The Science Behind Somatic Psychology
Somatic psychology is rooted in neuroscience, psychophysiology, and trauma research, exploring the intricate connection between the mind, nervous system, and body. Trauma and chronic stress are stored not only in the brain but also in the nervous system, muscles, and fascia, often causing persistent fight-flight-freeze responses, dissociation, or emotional dysregulation.
By leveraging neuroplasticity—the brain’s capacity to rewire itself—somatic approaches use movement, breathwork, and body-centered techniques to release stored trauma, restore balance, and enhance emotional regulation. Research in Polyvagal Theory and interpersonal neurobiology shows that somatic therapy promotes autonomic nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and long-term well-being.
This integrative, evidence-based approach allows you to access your body’s innate intelligence, transform unconscious patterns, and create a sustainable foundation for mental, emotional, and physical health.
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surrendering to change takes courage.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Who Somatic Psychology is For
Somatic Psychology is ideal for you if you are looking to heal trauma, manage ADHD or anxiety, and restore balance between mind and body. This approach is designed for individuals who:
Carry chronic stress or unresolved trauma that feels “stuck” in the body, creating tension, overwhelm, or emotional reactivity.
Want a holistic, mind-body approach that goes beyond traditional talk therapy, helping you process emotions, regulate your nervous system, and cultivate resilience.
Struggle with emotional regulation, overwhelm, or sensory overload and are seeking practical tools to reconnect with your body and feel grounded.
Are navigating major life transitions or periods of change and want to restore self-compassion, safety, and emotional clarity.
Desire to move past limiting patterns and access the innate wisdom of the body to create lasting well-being and mental clarity.
Somatic Psychology supports adults, teens, and neurodivergent individuals in releasing stored stress, improving attention and focus, and building emotional resilience, offering a safe, integrative path to long-term healing.
together, we will:
explore
The dynamic connection between your body and mind, identifying how stress, trauma, or ADHD-related overwhelm shows up physically and emotionally. Through mindful awareness, movement, and breath, we’ll uncover patterns that influence your daily experience.
uncover
The hidden emotional blocks, trauma, and unresolved experiences stored in your body. By tuning into physical sensations and nervous system responses, you’ll gain insight into how these patterns impact your emotions, focus, and behavior, creating opportunities for lasting transformation.
Regain
A sense of safety, resilience, and balance within your nervous system and your life. Somatic practices empower you to release old trauma, regulate emotional responses, and cultivate self-compassion, confidence, and clarity—supporting a more grounded, present, and authentic experience of yourself.
Somatic Psychology for ADHD & Trauma in Woodinville, WA
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Somatic Psychology in Woodinville: Healing the Body-Mind Connection
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Somatic psychology is a body-based therapeutic approach that integrates awareness of physical sensations, movement, and breath with traditional psychotherapy. While talk therapy focuses primarily on thoughts and emotions, somatic therapy addresses how trauma, stress, and ADHD manifest in the body, helping you release stored tension, regulate your nervous system, and create lasting emotional balance.
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Trauma is often stored in the body, showing up as tension, hypervigilance, dissociation, or emotional overwhelm. Somatic psychology uses evidence-based techniques, grounded in polyvagal theory and psychophysiology, to help you safely process these experiences. By working with bodily sensations, breath, and mindful movement, you can release trauma patterns, restore nervous system regulation, and develop a felt sense of safety.
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Yes. ADHD often comes with heightened sensory sensitivity, emotional dysregulation, and difficulty focusing. Somatic therapy provides practical tools to manage sensory overload, impulsivity, and racing thoughts, supporting improved attention, emotional control, and calm. Techniques like breathwork, grounding, and mindful movement help create a quiet, present-moment experience in your body, enhancing focus and executive functioning.
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Sessions are collaborative and individualized. We explore your bodily sensations, nervous system responses, and emotional patterns, using gentle movement, breathwork, and guided mindfulness exercises. Depending on your needs, sessions may include hands-on interventions, visualization, or somatic exercises to release tension and trauma safely. Every session is paced to ensure emotional and physical safety while fostering self-awareness and empowerment.
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es. Somatic therapy at Peace Humanistic Therapy is trauma-informed and paced intentionally. Techniques are adapted to each client’s needs, ensuring safety, nervous system regulation, and a sense of control throughout the process. This approach supports long-term healing without overwhelming the client.
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Results vary depending on your unique history, nervous system sensitivity, and therapeutic goals. Some clients experience immediate relief in tension, anxiety, or overwhelm after sessions, while deeper transformation often unfolds over weeks or months. Regular practice and integration of techniques at home amplify progress and long-term resilience.
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Not at all. Somatic psychology emphasizes gentle, mindful movement and body awareness rather than physical performance. Exercises are tailored to your comfort, abilities, and needs. The focus is on sensing, regulating, and releasing stored energy—not stretching or achieving complex poses.
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Absolutely. Somatic therapy complements talk therapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, energy psychology, and humanistic or Buddhist-informed practices. Integrating somatic work can deepen healing, improve emotional regulation, and enhance insight gained from other therapeutic modalities.
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Somatic psychology is ideal for individuals with trauma, chronic stress, ADHD, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation. It is also helpful for those navigating life transitions, feeling disconnected from their bodies, or seeking a holistic, mind-body approach to emotional healing and resilience.
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You can schedule a consultation to discuss your goals, challenges, and history. Together, we’ll create a tailored plan using somatic practices to address your nervous system regulation, trauma processing, and ADHD or emotional challenges. This initial step provides clarity and ensures your sessions are designed to meet your unique needs.
