Trauma and Somatics

Trauma and Somatics Trauma and Somatics teaches coaches, therapists, and other practitioners how to use a Trauma-Informed approach in their businesses.

07/13/2026

Most sessions with our clients start too fast.

The client arrives carrying everything from their day. The traffic they encountered this morning, the difficult conversation with a spouse or co-worker, the thing they haven’t resolved yet but were up thinking about at 3AM on a dreamless night.

The whole day has been urgent and in our work, we reinforce that by moving straight into it as if they have already landed in a space ready to open up.

They haven’t and to be honest, neither have we. We too have been caught in our own traffic, our own difficult conversations, and our nervous systems carry in the baggage alongside our clients.

The nervous system, theirs and ours, needs a moment to register that it is safe enough to be here.

That it can set down the vigilance it has been carrying. That this room, this person, this hour is different from everything that came before it.

Orienting is how we give it that moment. A genuine invitation for the body to arrive before the work begins.

When a client’s eyes move slowly around the room and their breath deepens on its own, something has shifted in their autonomic state that no amount of talking could have produced.

The session that follows that moment is a different session entirely. If you want to understand what is actually happening in your clients’ bodies before you say a word, the August cohort of Attachment + Somatics begins August 7th.

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Your clients tell you they’ve done all the work. CBT, journaling, naming their triggers, catching the anxious thought be...
07/11/2026

Your clients tell you they’ve done all the work. CBT, journaling, naming their triggers, catching the anxious thought before it spirals.

And still, something in them stays braced. There is a piece to this equation that nobody addressed.

Anxiety isn’t only a thought pattern we experience at 3AM, it’s a posture the ribcage has held for so long the nervous system forgot it was optional.

The body doesn’t listen to logic the way the mind does. It listens to safety, and safety has to be felt, not explained.

Working with the physical architecture underneath the anxiety, not just the story on top of it, is the work that unlocks your clients from a feeling they’ve carried most of their lives.

That’s what we teach inside Attachment + Somatics. Our Aug’26 cohort is open. Comment ATTACH to join us.

07/10/2026

The stories of two people diverge because the experiences they had did. And the divergence of the story isn’t only in the narrative someone tells, it’s in the body.

One person might hold an experience as fascia and posture while the other holds a different version the same way.

This is attachment at work but learning how the presentation looks different across family members is a skill most practitioners don’t have.

When we are sitting across from our clients as they recount experiences from childhood, adolescence and even young adulthood, the clues about how they experienced those situations are there, but not in their words.

Understanding how attachment is working somatically deepens your work and lets you bring a whole different perspective to the people in front of you.

And we teach this perspective inside of Attachment + Somatics. Our August cohort is now enrolling, comment the word ATTACH to join us.

We’ve all watched clients open up in session, then pull back within minutes. We’ve witnessed them as they cling to a par...
07/09/2026

We’ve all watched clients open up in session, then pull back within minutes. We’ve witnessed them as they cling to a partner, then push them away the second things get close.

These responses can be read as inconsistency or something to fix with better communication skills.

Communication tools alone won’t work because these are just a body doing exactly what it learned to do to survive.

Closeness got coded as dangerous somewhere along the way and vulnerability learned to trigger a shutdown before the mind even weighed in.

All of it is subconscious, none of it is a choice happening in real time.

The skill worth building as you work with clients is catching these behaviors earlier, while it’s still forming in the body, before your client even has language for what’s going on.

This is a core piece of what we teach inside Attachment + Somatics.

Our August cohort is open and we invite you to learn more and enroll with us. Comment ATTACH below.

07/08/2026

In a culture that champions self-regulation, we’ve begun to silo our healing practices.

We tell our clients to “just breathe,” meditate, or use an app to manage their anxiety. And they do so, alone.

But what happens when, for clients with deep attachment wounds, this advice consistently fails?

The truth is, our nervous systems are wired for connection.

We first learn to regulate through the attuned presence of a caregiver in infancy.

And for those who missed this crucial experience, self-regulation can feel impossible. The yearning for attunement never stops.

Their nervous system has never learned a true baseline of safety.

The Attachment and Somatics Practitioner Training teaches you how to provide this missing experience for your clients and yourself.

You will learn to become a powerful agent of co-regulation, using your own presence to guide your client’s nervous system toward safety and, from there, build their own lasting capacity for self-regulation.

We are enrolling for our August cohort of Attachment and Somatics now.

This 12-week higher level container goes beyond understanding the nervous system and attachment styles and teaches the wisdom of the body so you can help facilitate true change inside of your practice.

COMMENT ATTACH to learn more.

It is so easy when a client comes in with a loaded phrase like “we had a fight” to immediately begin problem-solving.Our...
07/07/2026

It is so easy when a client comes in with a loaded phrase like “we had a fight” to immediately begin problem-solving.

Our brains go to:

What’s the story.
What could they have said differently.
How can they communicate better next time.
What advice can I impart.
What question do I ask next.

But the moments where their body reacts IN the story matter more than the words themselves.

The fight itself is rarely the point.

When you learn to track:

What is happening in front of me while they tell me about it?
What do I notice about their body as they get deeper into the story?

Those micro movements are a body doing what it learned to do long before this partner existed, long before the argument they’ve had dozens of times was first had.

These are the moments that matter most, and it’s what most miss.

And those are the moments we teach you to see clearly inside of Attachment + Somatics. If you are a helping professional that is working with clients whether it be in therapy, consulting, coaching or while doing bodywork, you open up a whole other register of information about your clients when you understand the nuances of what their body is doing while they recount their stories.

Our August cohort is open for A+S now. Comment ATTACH to join us.

07/06/2026

Grief processed alone in a journal or a therapy room after the session ends is not nearly as powerful as grief that arrives in the room while the other person is there to witness it.

When a mother really hears her daughter and begins to cry, and the daughter watches her mother feel her feelings, then the daughter cries.

That shared moment heals in a way that nothing else can reach.

Many of your clients come to you with deep attachment wounds. And attachment wounds heal through new relational experiences.

Learning to create those experiences in your sessions is exactly what we train inside Attachment + Somatics.

Comment ATTACH for details on our Aug 2026 cohort.

Your clients can name the exact shift they need to make during their sessions. They prove they understand their patterns...
07/03/2026

Your clients can name the exact shift they need to make during their sessions. They prove they understand their patterns time and time again.

But then Tuesday happens, they’re presented with a situation in real life where they can choose a different response and their body pulls the old lever anyway.

They feel defeated.

That gap between insight and behavior goes deeper than understanding or motivation. Your clients are dealing with patterns in their body that are decades old, some before language existed. No amount of talking will out-argue that.

This is the work we teach inside Attachment + Somatics: reading dysregulation as it happens, using the body itself to build safety, and helping clients unwind what insight alone can’t touch.

Our Aug 2026 cohort is open for enrollment. We serve experienced practitioners and coaches who work with clients week to week and know that facilitating real change requires going deeper.

Comment ATTACH for more details.

07/02/2026

When a client walks into the room or comes onto a Zoom for the first time, I’m already working. But not in the way you would think.

I’m not focused on the problem they’ve brought me; instead, I’m watching how they carry themselves through the door or onto the call, how they settle into a chair, whether they orient toward me or away.

The body is already telling me something before we’ve exchanged a single word about why they’re here.

When we jump to treat the presenting problem as the starting point, we risk missing what is actually happening. The problem is a symptom.

What I’m interested in is the system that produced it, and that system has a history that usually begins long before the person sitting across from me was old enough to name what was happening.

Family of origin is not an aside, but a place to start.

The past is where the nervous system learned its organizing principles around how to be close, how much closeness is safe, and what to do when connection feels threatened. Those patterns don’t disappear when someone leaves home, they travel with them. And they show up in every significant relationship afterward, including the one they have with us in the room.

What I observe in the culture right now is a deep disorientation around this.

Families are fracturing and people are estranged from the very systems that were meant to teach them how to be in relationship. Some of it makes sense, some of it is where our society is today.

But underneath the estrangement, underneath the anxiety about the planet and politics and what’s coming, is something simpler and older. A loss of knowing how to be connected to other people without abandoning yourself in the process.

The work with most people begins here, in the body, in the way they hold relationships, and that is the work we teach inside of Attachment + Somatics. If you’re a skilled practitioner or coach who is working with people without the foundations of how attachment shows up in the body in the room with your clients, this training is for you. Comment ATTACH to learn more.

As practitioners, we all strive to be a calming, co-regulating presence for our clients. But co-regulation is a biologic...
07/01/2026

As practitioners, we all strive to be a calming, co-regulating presence for our clients. But co-regulation is a biological process, not just a good intention.

If our own nervous system is activated or in a state of freeze, our clients will feel that incongruence, and our attempts to create safety will fall flat.

The Attachment and Somatics Practitioner Training places a strong emphasis on practitioner embodiment.

You will learn the art of self-regulation, transforming your own presence into your most powerful clinical tool and creating the conditions for profound client healing.

Enrollment for the August 2026 cohort is open. Comment ATTACH to learn more.

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