Your Body Isn’t the Problem. The Standard Is.

Somatic therapy in NYC can help you heal your relationship with your body and live more intuitively.

Understand Your IssuesDaniela KrauszFebruary 27, 2026body image, body issues

Working with ADHD Experientially

Therapist and client work with curiosity about the ways ADHD impacts our emotional bonds.

Understand Your IssuesAustin DalgleishSeptember 15, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapyadhd, neurodivergence, shame, somatic experiencing

What is Emotional Perfectionism?

Discussing individual’s need to regulate and control their emotions to avoid feelings of shame, guilt, or disappointment.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinJuly 28, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapyemotional health, emotionally focused therapy

I Think I Have Trauma

Healing starts with self-validation, and approaches like somatic therapy help the mind and body recover.

Understand Your IssuesWes CurtisJune 16, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapysomatic therapy, emdr, wes curtis, trauma, trauma therapy

A Somatic Approach to Breaking Free from a Victim Mentality

Understanding victim consciousness isn’t about self-blame; it’s about self-awareness.

Understand Your IssuesStephanie AlirkanMay 29, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapyself-sabotage, somatic therapy, hormones, embodiment, self-compassion, Self-awareness, karpman drama triangle, drama triangle

IFS Helps Couples Struggling With Depression Repair and Reconnect

IFS paves a new way forward—one where curiosity, compassion, and partnership guide them back to each other.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinMarch 27, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapyifs, internal family systems, couples therapy, relationships

Are Emotions Contagious?

Understanding how easily emotions spread and impact us can be essential for deepening your somatic therapy work.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinMarch 4, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapyemotional health, Emotional Regulation

How to Tell You’re Depressed

Depression is one of the most common mental challenges today. Thankfully we know the signs to look out for and how to treat it.

Understand Your IssuesWes CurtisJanuary 6, 2025Downtown Somatic Therapydepression, emotional health

Venting or Processing? How to Tell the Difference

By addressing physical aspects of emotional experiences, somatic therapy helps to achieve genuine emotional healing and growth.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinNovember 5, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapyemotions, emotional health, Emotional Regulation

Can You Trust Your Emotions?

Emotions serve as valuable indicators of our inner state, revealing deeper truths about ourselves.

Understand Your IssuesStefan Allen-HickeySeptember 23, 2024Downtown Somatic TherapyEmotional Regulation, emotional health

Embracing Frustration Using Somatic Therapy

Through somatic therapy, we can learn to harness the power of frustration, facilitating neuroplasticity and personal transformation.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinSeptember 3, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapyfrustration, anger management, anger, nyc, neuroplasticity

I Know My Attachment Style, Now What?

There has been a wave of mainstream acknowledgement that trauma is stored in the body, this is the second wave: moving it out.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinAugust 12, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapyattachment theory, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment

How Somatic Therapy Can Heal Your Attachment Wound

Understanding the impact of emotionally unavailable attachment figures on adult attachment patterns is a crucial aspect of the therapeutic process.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinJune 20, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapyattachment issues, attachment theory, avoidant attachment, anxious attachment

How can I heal from complex trauma?

Somatic therapy harnesses our innate capacity for healing by creating space for your body to process pre-verbal complex trauma.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinMay 20, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapytrauma therapy, emdr

How Somatic Therapy Can Help Ease Defense Mechanisms

Somatic therapy improves awareness of defense mechanisms and helps process the feelings these defenses are covering up.

Understand Your IssuesStefan Allen-HickeyMay 2, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapydefense mechanisms, somatic therapy

Relieving Insomnia: How Somatic Therapy Helps Relieve Anxiety and Restore Sleep

By delving into the sensations and bodily experiences associated with anxiety, somatic therapy offers a pathway to calmness and relief.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinMarch 29, 2024Downtown Somatic TherapySomatic therapy, anxiety, insomnia, sleep

How Can Somatic Therapy Help Your Relationship?

Somatic therapy offers strategies to help couples become unstuck and reconnect with each other.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinMarch 6, 2024Downtown Somatic TherapySomatic therapy, couples therapy, relationships

Somatic Therapy Helps You Stop Asking, “Am I Queer Enough? ”

For queer identifying people, dating often comes with complexities that can feel isolating, exhausting and disembodying.

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinFebruary 6, 2024Downtown Somatic Therapylgbtq issues, gender identity, queer theory

Understanding Anger

What is the role of anger in an emotionally healthy person and how can somatic therapy help someone develop a positive relationship with anger?

Understand Your IssuesAvi KleinDecember 5, 2023Downtown Somatic Therapyanger, Anne Heller

Does Depression Show up Differently in Men?

Many men displaying anger or engaging in escapist or risky behaviors might be unaware they are symptoms of underlying depression.

Understand Your IssuesStefan Allen-HickeyNovember 16, 2023Downtown Somatic TherapyDepression, men's health, stefan allen-hickey

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The answers to all your therapy-related questions and rapid-access to self-care tips.