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Patterns
Notice the familiar loops your body and mind enter under stress.
Somatic therapy with Lisa Rowe, LCSW
Come home to what your body already knows.
A trauma-responsive, attachment-based approach to psychotherapy that makes room for the wisdom held beneath the words.
Insight alone is not always enough.
You can understand your patterns and still feel caught inside them. Somatic therapy invites the body into the conversation, creating space to notice what is happening in real time and to practice a different response with care.
A grounded definition
What somatic therapy means
Somatic therapy is psychotherapy that incorporates body awareness. Together, we may notice breath, posture, sensation, impulse, tension, or settling—not to diagnose the body, but to understand how trauma, attachment, and lived experience may be showing up and what support may be needed.
You may benefit from somatic work if you notice
- You understand your story but still feel activated, shut down, or stuck.
- Stress, grief, or relationship conflict seems to live in your body.
- You want a gentler way to build capacity for difficult emotions.
- You are ready to practice responding with more choice and less reactivity.
What somatic work looks like in a therapy session
Sessions remain collaborative, paced, and rooted in conversation. Lisa may invite you to pause, track a sensation, notice what changes as you speak, or experiment with a small movement or grounding practice. You are always in charge of what feels appropriate to explore.
The Rooted Method
Somatics through the five movements of the Rooted Method
The Rooted Method offers a compassionate framework: notice the pattern, understand its root, regulate the nervous system, repair what was wounded, reconnect with what matters, and choose differently.
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Beliefs
Explore the meanings you have learned to make about safety, worth, and connection.
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Emotions
Build room for feelings to move through without becoming overwhelmed by them.
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Responses
Practice choices that support steadiness, boundaries, and self-trust.
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Relationships
Bring greater presence and clarity to the ways you connect with others.
In practice
A process that makes room for the whole person
Somatics and relationships
Our nervous systems are shaped in relationship and supported in relationship. Somatic work can help you recognize the cues that arise around closeness, conflict, boundaries, and repair—so connection can feel more intentional and less automatic.
Somatics, movement, and yoga
Somatic therapy is not a fitness program, a yoga class, or wellness coaching. While gentle movement or breath awareness may be offered when useful, the work is psychotherapy: reflective, relational, and tailored to your goals.
Meet Lisa
Lisa Rowe, LCSW, is the Founder, CEO, and Clinical Director of Rooted Therapies. With more than 19 years in clinical care and leadership, she integrates trauma-responsive, attachment-based, somatic, relational, family-systems, and Gottman-informed therapy for adults, couples, and families.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to have experience with body-based practices?
No. Somatic work begins with simple noticing and is adapted to your comfort, needs, and pace.
Will I be asked to do movement in session?
Only if it feels useful and welcome. Conversation remains central, and every invitation is optional.
Is somatic therapy appropriate for trauma?
Somatic approaches can be supportive for many people navigating trauma, relationship rupture, betrayal, codependency, or major life transitions. Lisa will work collaboratively with you to determine what feels appropriate for your history and goals.
A more rooted way forward.
You do not have to think your way through everything alone. There is room to listen, notice, and move at a pace that feels true to you.