Somatic Therapy Sessions

Yearning to Feel Alive and Not Just Survive?

🌿 Reclaim Your Aliveness:
In Body, In Life, In Nature
Virtual Sessions Available | Book your free 15-minute exploration call

One-on-One Psychotherapy with Angela Herzog, MA, RP, CCC, SEP 

As a Registered Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I blend nature-immersive experiences with deep nervous system attunement. I believe healing isn’t about pushing harder, it’s about safety, presence, and moving at your own rhythm.

Does this feel familiar?

You know you’re meant for a fuller, more authentic life.

But instead, you find yourself moving through the days on autopilot: disconnected, anxious, numb, or exhausted.

On the outside, you may look “fine,” but inside, it feels like you’re unraveling.  

Or perhaps, you feel paralyzed in your life. You want to move forward, yet, the past keeps dragging you back.  

Maybe you’ve shared your story of trauma, many times.
With friends, family, even therapists.
But still… the feelings return.
Each retelling stirs the same wave of emotion, as though nothing has truly shifted.

That’s because trauma lives in more than just our thoughts.
It lives in the body. And the body remembers.

In fact, our bodies are brilliant at surviving many stressful, traumatic situations and relationships.
They adapt. They protect. They keep us going.
But survival mode, though once necessary, can begin to shape how we live long after the danger has passed. 

Survival Mode Might Look Like:

  • Pushing away emotions

  • Caught in spiraling thoughts

  • Fear hijacking our bodies

  • Extreme highs and lows

  • A deep sense of unworthiness 

But your body can learn to feel safe again.

True deeper healing begins when we become curious, not just about the story, but about how our body has survived that story.
That’s where Somatic Experiencing begins.

The Somatic Path to Healing

Somatic Experiencing® offers a different way through. 

It doesn’t require you to retell your trauma or push through discomfort.

Instead, it gently supports your nervous system in completing the survival responses it never got to finish and to rediscover its natural rhythm of safety, ease, and aliveness. 

In our sessions, you’ll be met with warmth, empathy, and attuned presence.

No pressure. No fixing. Just gentle space for your nervous system to unwind, at a pace that feels safe. 

This stable, therapeutic relationship we build becomes the catalyst to your healing.

A secure base for the power of co-regulation to emerge. You will be witnessed and supported with a compassionate heart, learning how to meet yourself with the same care.

Together, we’ll explore:

🌀 How your body has adapted to keep you safe

💚 How to reconnect with your body, gently and with compassion

🌱 What it’s like to feel again, safely and slowly

🐚 How to soften survival patterns and rediscover the parts of you that have been hidden or on hold

Whether you're navigating recovery from a specific trauma event or healing attachment trauma, our sessions may include: 

  • Mindful awareness of body sensations and nervous system patterns

  • Gentle processing of stuck fight/flight/freeze responses

  • Emotional regulation and rebuilding of self-trust

  • Relational healing through secure, attuned connection

  • Integration of fragmented or dissociated parts of your experience

As your nervous system begins to regulate, you may notice:

✨ A deep sense of calm where anxiety once lived

✨ A renewed trust in your instincts, needs, and voice

✨ A growing sense of aliveness and feeling at home in your body 

“The process of being seen, understood, and accepted by an attuned, empathetic other engenders a sense of genuine self-acceptance—a feeling that we are profoundly okay.”
 — Linda Graham

Keep reading to learn more or book your 15-minute exploration call now.

🧠 What is Somatic Experiencing?

Developed by Dr. Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based, trauma-informed therapy that helps resolve and release trauma held in the nervous system.

It’s grounded in this truth: 

Trauma isn’t what happened—it’s what lives on in the body when we didn’t get the chance to protect ourselves or receive proper support.

SE supports your body in completing the survival responses—fight, flight, freeze—that were never resolved. This allows your system to restore regulation. Instead of feeling the highs and lows of dysregulation, you will feel more balance and safety in your emotional experience. 

Angela integrates SE into her therapy sessions alongside other modalities such as:

  • Nature-Based Therapy

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Attachment Repair Work

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Solution-Focused Therapy

Focus Areas

  • Trauma Recovery (Shock, Developmental, or Complex)

  • Nervous System Regulation

  • Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, and Chronic Stress

  • Burnout and Life Transitions

  • Attachment and Relational Healing

🏞  Nature as Co-Therapist | A Living Relationship 

Virtual Sessions + Outdoor Sessions on Manitoulin Island

Somatic healing happens wherever we invite the body into gentle awareness. Most sessions are offered virtually or by phone, allowing you to connect from the comfort of your own space, with nature still welcomed into the process. 

Many clients find that phone sessions offer the freedom to walk or sit outdoors as we have our session.

For those on Manitoulin Island, occasional outdoor sessions may also be available. Held in the presence of trees, stones, birdsong, and the steady rhythms of the land.

Nature offers a quiet witness and a powerful co-regulator.

Whether walking slowly or resting in stillness, the natural world can help the body soften in ways we often can't access alone.

✨ What You May Experience

Somatic therapy isn’t about “fixing” what’s broken. It’s about remembering what’s always been true, beneath the layers of survival. 

Through this work, clients often experience:

🪷 A gentle reconnection to their body’s innate wisdom

🪷 Release of long-held tension from the nervous system

🪷 A sense of safety in slowing down and more capacity to be in the present moment

🪷 A renewed relationship with nature, one of reciprocity, not extraction

🪷 A happiness, self trust, and quiet knowing that you are enough 

You may have believed:

“I’m too much.”
“I have to hold it all together.”
“Something in me is broken.”

But often, these beliefs aren’t who you are.
They’re how your body learned to survive.

This work invites you to meet yourself differently.
Not with judgment or urgency, but with tenderness, curiosity, and deep care.

🌿 Take the First Step Toward Healing

Curious to see if this is the right support for you?
Let’s begin with a gentle conversation.

I offer a free 15-minute exploration call to connect, answer your questions, and help you feel whether this path is right for you.

FAQ

  • Somatic Experiencing (SE) invites the body into the healing process, not just the mind. While talking can offer meaningful insights and reflection, SE helps gently complete the body’s unresolved survival responses (like fight, flight, or freeze) that words alone may not access.

    Instead of simply understanding what happened, your body is supported in resolving what it couldn’t finish, so the internal alarm can begin to quiet.

    Imagine how life might feel if you weren’t constantly managing that internal alert.
    What could be possible if that energy were freed up for joy, creativity, and connection?

  • Each session is collaborative and guided by what feels supportive for you. It may include:
    ☁️ Invitations to slow down and notice body sensations, emotions, and images related to memories
    🌿 Grounding practices and awareness of your environment
    💬 Talking when helpful but balanced with tracking body responses
    📚 Gentle education about trauma and the nervous system
    🌱 A focus on soothing, stabilizing, and moving at your own pace

    Angela’s presence offers co-regulation, warmth, and attunement, not pressure or overwhelm.

  • For various reasons, including societal conditions, familial traumas, or lack of community support, many of us have not received the attuned presence of others that create the conditions to move into living a full, authentic life. 

    To cope with this reality, we often have to push away our emotions, desires and interests to try to fit a mold in hopes of finding support. But instead of finding belonging, this coping further divides us from our own self and body, and creates even more isolation. We tend to then start living from our heads and believe thoughts of unworthiness, which can perpetuate experiences of anxiety and depression. 

    Somatic Experiencing helps us gently reconnect with our bodies so we can rediscover who we are outside of trauma and begin living with more authenticity, presence, and choice.

  • These experiences often relate to a nervous system that’s been stuck in survival mode for a long time. Somatic therapy supports the body in rediscovering what it feels like to be safe, supported, and connected, without needing to stay on high alert. Over time, this creates more space for a full range of emotion, greater capacity to self-regulate, and a deeper sense of ease and resilience in everyday life.

  • Talking is absolutely welcome. You’ll never be asked to “do somatic work” if it doesn’t feel right in the moment. This process is always led by you, and how we work together will be guided by your needs, your comfort, and your preferences.

    While Somatic Experiencing is a powerful approach for healing trauma, many clients also find deep value in having a consistent, caring space to talk, reflect, and be heard.

    Often, a natural blend emerges, where talking opens the door, and somatic awareness gently supports what’s beneath the words. Whether you want to focus more on conversation, nervous system education, or body-based healing, we’ll co-create a path that feels right for you.

  • Angela integrates SE into individual therapy. She also supports SE students and assists at international SE trainings. Sessions are available for Beginner- and Intermediate-level SE students as part of their SEP requirements.

Watch a video about somatic experiencing therapy in nature

🕊 Let’s Begin

Curious to hear what your body is trying to tell you?

If something in you is whispering, “I’m ready…”

Let’s be curious together…

About Angela Herzog, MA, RP, CCC, SEP

Angela is a Registered Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specializing in trauma, anxiety, and nervous system regulation.

Her work blends nature-immersive experiences with deep nervous system attunement. She believes healing doesn’t require pushing harder, it requires safety, presence, and permission to move at your own rhythm. 

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathic witness.”
— Peter Levine