Summit provides somatic therapy online for trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, and experiences that live beyond words.
At Summit, somatic work begins with the belief that the body is not separate from the story. It is often where the story has been held.
Somatic therapy is a body-aware approach to emotional and psychological care.
Rather than focusing only on thoughts, memories, or language, somatic therapy listens to the body as a source of wise communication.
Trauma can live in breath, posture, muscle tension, numbness, pain, alertness, collapse, and the ability to feel safe. These responses are not random. They are often meaningful signals shaped by experience, protection, and survival.
Online somatic therapy may include noticing physical sensations, tracking nervous system responses, building regulation, exploring protective patterns, and learning how the body communicates safety, fear, shutdown, overwhelm, or readiness.
For those searching for a somatic therapist online, virtual care can offer privacy, consistency, and access to specialized trauma-informed support beyond your immediate location.
Summit’s somatic approach is relational, trauma-focused, and depth-oriented.
The body is treated as a truth-teller — not something to override, perform for, or control. Dr. Layne helps clients listen to physical responses with precision and care, while connecting those responses to emotion, memory, protection, and meaning.
This is somatic therapy with clinical depth, grounded in safety before interpretation.
For trauma survivors, the body may carry responses that developed for protection. Moving too quickly can feel overwhelming or destabilizing.
At Summit, somatic therapy begins with containment, trust, and regulation. The goal is not to force the body to release. It is to help you understand what your system has been holding, and to build more capacity to stay present with yourself.
Yes. Somatic therapy can be done online when it is paced carefully and guided by a trained clinician. Virtual somatic therapy may include body awareness, nervous system tracking, regulation work, and reflection on protective patterns.
Somatic therapy is a body-aware approach to therapy. It helps clients notice how emotion, trauma, and stress appear in the body, and supports greater awareness, regulation, and connection.
Talk therapy often focuses on thoughts, feelings, and stories. Somatic therapy also includes the body — sensations, tension, numbness, breath, posture, and nervous system responses that may hold important information.
The number of sessions depends on your history, goals, nervous system capacity, and what becomes possible as safety develops. Somatic therapy is often gradual rather than quick or linear.
A somatic therapy session may include conversation, noticing body sensations, tracking emotional shifts, identifying protective responses, and building more capacity for regulation and self-trust.
Somatic therapy is informed by research on trauma, the nervous system, attachment, and mind-body connection. Dr. Layne integrates somatic work within a broader clinical psychotherapy approach.
Somatic experiencing focuses on the body’s nervous system responses and gradual processing of activation. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help process traumatic memories. Both can support trauma work, but they are different approaches.
Somatic therapy may support some people with chronic pain by helping them understand how stress, trauma, nervous system activation, and protective tension may interact with physical experience. It is not a replacement for medical care.
Somatic therapy may be right for you if your body seems to carry stress or trauma, if talk therapy has not reached the full depth of your experience, or if you want care that includes both mind and body.