Reviewed by Kathryn Vercillo, MA Psychology | Last Updated: November 2025 You know the feeling. Your stomach drops when you receive bad news. Your shoulders creep toward your ears during a stressful meeting. Your chest tightens before a difficult conversation, even when you tell yourself there is nothing to worry about. These experiences reveal something profound: your body is not...[ read more ]
In this video, Phoenix L. Quetzal DeLeon, MA, AMFT, a somatic therapist at the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy, explains what somatic therapy is and demonstrates how it works differently from traditional talk therapy. Using a live example of working with anxiety, Phoenix shows how changing the state of the body can shift emotional experiences—offering clients more agency and choice in...[ read more ]
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