The Beyond approach
Talk therapies often describe an issue without actually shifting it, which can feel like talking in circles as the years drift by. That’s because stress, anxiety and pain are rooted at the body level where unprocessed emotion, trauma, and energy are stuck.
We treat the core process of nervous system dysregulation using somatic modalities that are direct and evidence-based.
All of our therapists are trained in the core Beyond approach, which blends:
We also offer bodywork and breathwork.
Together we:
Build the relationship
We offer a corrective experience where you are deeply understood, accepted and supported. We work at your pace without rushing or pushing.
Map the pattern
We build a shared understanding of how your symptoms operate. We’ll map the parts of you that may be blocking your healing and figure out your personal roadmap to health.
Heal at the body level
Inside each session, we use somatic techniques to get to the root of symptoms. We’ll reprocess your trauma and strengthen your positive connection to the body.
Who we serve
“The body remembers what the mind forgets.”
Jacob Levy MorenoYour pain story has become a novel. You’ve seen the specialists. You have the scans, the folder of results that come back normal. But your back, your gut, your head, or your pelvis keep insisting otherwise. You are so self-reliant that you might never have come to therapy but for your body. But you can’t stop ruminating and troubleshooting your symptoms.
Pain that persists is not imaginary nor a character flaw. It is a pattern that results from complex trauma. The body keeps sounding the alarm because stuck energy, bracing, numbing and emotional pain from past events still live unprocessed in the body.
We work directly with that alarm system. Slowly, at a pace your body can tolerate, we help it complete what it has been holding and discover what safety actually feels like from the inside. Symptoms soften as you reconnect and the bracing lets go. You stop being at war with your own body and start to experience it as an intelligent guidance system.
Learn more about how we work with chronic pain here.
“Trauma is when severe emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held.”
Robert StolorowOn paper, you made it. You got through what happened, kept working, kept showing up, maybe even built something impressive. People admire how strong you are. What they don't see is the cost: the vigilance that never fully powers down, the feelings that arrive muted or not at all, the sense of watching your own life through glass.
Your capability is real, and it was hard won. It is also how a nervous system protects itself after overwhelm, by shutting down feeling and staying ready for the next blow. It kept you safe then. Now it keeps you from the joy, closeness, and rest you have more than earned.
We don't ask you to relive the worst moments or tell your story before you're ready. Working with the body, we help your system discharge what it has been holding and gradually widen its capacity to feel, at a pace that stays tolerable. Clients describe the shift as: colors come back, laughter comes easier, and life stops feeling like something to get through.
Learn more about how we work with trauma here.
“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
Henry David ThoreauFrom the outside, it works. The company, the title, the results. From the inside, there is a motor that never turns off. You wake at 3 a.m. with your mind already in tomorrow's meeting. Rest feels like falling behind. Even vacations become projects to optimize.
Here is what you never learned: Your nervous system is running on hyperarousal, which is a response to the early conditions that you experienced. This worked to get you to a better place, but if you stay in this mode, you will burn out, get sick and die young.
We are not here to dampen your success. We help your system learn that it can downshift without losing anything. Your intensity becomes a gear you choose and can disengage to take the needed pitstops. Once your engine is no longer red-lining, you lead with more clarity and conviction and can leverage the resources around you.
Learn more about how we work with the high-intensity type here.
“A sensitive child learns to sense and meet a parent’s emotional needs, giving up their own true self to secure love.”
Alice MillerYou are the one people call. The parent holding the family together, the nurse or therapist or teacher who gives all day and then comes home to give more. Somewhere along the way, your own needs became an afterthought.
You feel exhaustion, resentment, unspoken frustrations and guilt whenever you do step away. Eventually these untended feelings become chronic health conditions and physical pain.
Caring for others is not the problem. Caring for others from an empty tank is. You have trained yourself to override your own body signals.
Together, we build your capacity to tend to yourself, to ask and receive from others, to say “no”, and to maintain boundaries and a healthy sense of self.
Learn more about how we work with the highly sensitive person here and the under-investor here.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya AngelouThe work matters to you more than anything, which is exactly why it can hurt so much. The blank page that stares back. The project abandoned at eighty percent because finishing means being evaluated and judged. The suspicion that your best work came from your darkest seasons, so healing might cost you your voice.
Underneath the blocks, there is a simpler body story. Creating means being seen, and somewhere your system learned that being seen was dangerous. So it protects you with procrastination, perfectionism, and self-doubt.
We help you uncouple your creativity from this threat response. As your nervous system stops treating exposure as an emergency, the creative channel opens and flow states emerge. Clients are often surprised to find that regulation does not flatten art. It deepens it.
Learn more about how we work with tortured souls here.
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Joseph Campbell“Your unconscious is currently working on the next stage of your life.”
John O’DonohueThe life you built was supposed to be enough. The career, the roles, the boxes checked. Then something shifted. A divorce, a loss, a milestone birthday, or just a quiet morning when you realized you have been living a script someone else wrote. Now the old life does not fit and the new one is still arriving.
This in-between is disorienting, and it is also sacred ground, or liminal space. The grief is real: for the years, for the lost identity. But so is the pull toward something fresh and true.
We accompany you through this middle ground. The body knows things about who you are becoming before the mind can name them. Rather than rushing you into a new identity, we help you stay present to the unfolding one, grieve what needs grieving, and build a life that is spacious enough for what is emerging.
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Virginia WoolfYou spent years scanning the room before you could relax in it. Reading faces, editing yourself, deciding how much of you was safe to show. Even if you are out now, that early vigilance does not simply switch off. It lives in the body as a subtle guardedness that follows you into relationships, work and even your own mirror.
You are an expert in giving people what they want to hear. You carry the exhaustion of explaining yourself to people who still don’t get it. You are still finding the nuanced words for who you really are and you don’t want to have to educate your therapist or brace for the next wince.
We offer affirming care where the whole of you is welcome from the first minute. Together we work with the body's old habits of hypervigilance, fawning, bracing, and avoidance, so that the safety you have been striving for can finally land in your nervous system.
Learn more about how we work with LGBTQ issues here.
“The world needs all kinds of minds.”
Temple GrandinWhether it’s ADHD or autism or sensitivity, your mind does not run on the standard operating system, and the world rarely lets you forget it. Sensory input that others filter out hits you at full volume. You may mask all day and collapse at home. The exhaustion of translating yourself is another kind of trauma. All this overexertion accumulates in the body as tension, fatigue, anxiety, and shutdown.
We do not treat your brain as a problem to fix. Actually, every single brain is unique and quite different. We work with your nervous system, helping you recover from the strain of masking to find self-regulation strategies that fit.
Our clients have described somatic work as permission to let go of performing “normal” and the encouragement to embrace their true selves.
Learn more about how we work with ADHD here.
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen KellerEveryone keeps asking what your plan is, as if you are supposed to have one already. Friendships shift under your feet, and your phone is a highlight reel of what you’re missing out on.
Maybe the anxiety shows up as stomach pain before school, maybe it is numbness, where nothing feels like much of anything. Adults keep offering advice when what you deeply crave is to be understood better.
Our work with teens and young adults starts there: no lectures, no fixing you. We provide an open space for you to find out who you are and we build tools for the spiral moments.
For parents: we keep you in the loop in ways that respect your young person's trust and help with some basic parenting frameworks.
Learn more about how we work with teens and young adults here.
“The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.”
Esther PerelThe same argument keeps resurfacing and a reasonable conversation can go sideways in thirty seconds. You may be seriously contemplating whether this is a good fit or not.
We help to create a safe zone where the surface content of the arguments can provide access to the deeper attachment and nervous system patterns. You learn to catch the moment where things start to escalate, to down-regulate, and to express the vulnerable feelings beneath the attacks. Conflict becomes survivable and then useful. Intimacy returns, not through grand gestures, but through two systems learning to feel safe together again.
Learn more about how we work with couples here.
Our approach was developed by training personally with:
Bessel Van Der Kolk,
Author of The Body Keeps the ScorePeter Levine,
Founder of Somatic ExperiencingDick Schwartz,
Founder of Internal Family SystemsLaurel Parnell,
Founder of Attachment-EMDRThomas Hübl
Author of Healing Collective TraumaNancy MacWilliams
Author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic ManualKristin Neff
Author of Self-CompassionAlan Gordon
Founder of Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Treatment approach
Our somatic practices teach you to be with challenging sensations and emotions to allow energy to shift and release, rather than accumulating in your body.
Over time, your window of tolerance expands so that you can better ride out difficult experiences and return to feeling yourself.
Best of all, your nervous system learns to do this by itself, achieving what is called regulation, or the natural ability to discharge activation energy.
In sessions, we help you to process and unburden the original traumas that live on in your body, such as hypersensitivity to threat and limiting belief structures. To do this, we need to meet and befriend the protective parts that over or under react to present situations. When we unburden the pain they protect, these parts can finally calm down and begin to work together as a team.
We help you build a personalized tool-kit of somatic practices to manage your symptoms going forward. When you stop fearing your symptoms they lose power over you and they begin to fade.
As the work progresses, clients often report forgetting about symptoms as their life comes back into the foreground.
We use two main approaches to heal the nervous system:
Interoceptive strengthening via relational mirroring and exercises such as somatic tracking, breathwork, toning, touchwork, and tapping that increase the signal from body to brain.
Reprocessing, via focused trauma work such as somatic therapy or EMDR that clear the emotional charge from active triggers and undigested experiences.
Both methods work to increase your window of tolerance and better support nervous system regulation. This reduces overwhelm and restores the full spectrum of experience—feelings like joy, love, awe and gratitude that may have been absent.
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You describe what you’re looking for and together we map a path forward.
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You pick a frequency that works best with no ongoing commitment.