Georgia · Florida · South Carolina · California
Somatic
Trauma
Therapy
with Shae Ivie-Williams, LPC, SEP
"I've had the privilege to work with many individuals over the years, but nothing excites me more than those who are ready to take their journey deeper and further in a different way."
You've gathered the pieces—stories, insights, timelines—laid them out like a map of where you've been. But knowing isn't the same as feeling free. Your body still whispers the past in aches, tension, and silence. You're weary from the tightrope walk—always accommodating, always producing, always putting your needs last. And beneath it all, a quiet yearning: to come home to yourself.
Get StartedYou may relate if you find yourself…
Individuals
I Support
- Putting others' needs before your own
- Walking around on eggshells
- Difficulty speaking up to express your needs
- Shutting down or freezing during difficult conversations
- Avoiding conflict at all costs
- Criticizing yourself harshly
- Running on autopilot—forgetting to eat, rest, or check in with yourself
- Struggles with setting boundaries with others
- Anxiety and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress
- Shame related to your identities
Areas of Focus
Specialties
Somatic Healing for Unresolved Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma doesn't just live in our memories—it lives in our bodies. I specialize in helping adults who carry early relational wounds, neglect, or abuse reconnect with themselves through somatic therapy. Whether your trauma shows up as anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or difficulty in relationships, our work will gently support your body's natural ability to regulate, release, and heal.
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Identity-Affirming Therapy for Neurodivergent, Queer, BIPOC, Kink & Poly Communities
You deserve a space where you don't have to translate, shrink, or defend who you are. I offer deeply affirming therapy for clients navigating intersectional identities. Our work honors your lived experience and centers consent, complexity, and autonomy—creating room for all parts of you to be seen, held, and supported without pathologizing or shame.
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Decolonizing Therapy
Decolonizing therapy means shifting away from models that pathologize people and disconnect us from our roots, intuition, and ancestral wisdom. In our work, we center collective liberation, cultural reclamation, and holistic healing—weaving in body-based practices, ancestral honoring, and community care to support you in reconnecting with who you are beyond oppression and beyond survival.
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✨ What You Can Expect to Transform
Ready to come home
to yourself?
If you're carrying the weight of unresolved childhood trauma or navigating life in a world that wasn't built with you in mind—you deserve a space that sees, affirms, and honors all of you.
Whether you're neurodivergent, BIPOC, queer, polyamorous, or part of the kink community, our work together will center your body's wisdom, your truth, and your liberation.
✨ Let's move beyond survival and into embodied healing.
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Shae Ivie-Williams
LPC · SEP · Trauma Therapist
She / Her
In-Person & Virtual: Sun, Tue, Wed
1074 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA
Virtual Only: Thursday
$215 · 50-minute session
Loveland Vouchers Accepted
Aetna accepted for California & Georgia clients
In My Own Words
✨ More About Me
"We are multifaceted beings—composed not just of thoughts, but also of sensations, images, emotions, and patterns that carry wisdom from our past and messages about our present."
In our work together, I embrace all parts of you. This is a space where we welcome your full self—your culture, your queerness, your neurodivergence, your spirituality, your pain, your pleasure—without judgment. This is where we get to do therapy differently.
I believe healing happens not just in the mind, but in the body. So many of my clients say, "I know this logically… but my body tells a different story." That's where somatic therapy comes in—where we bring your body into the conversation and allow your inner wisdom to guide the way.
I specialize in working with adults healing from unresolved childhood trauma, which often shows up later in life as perfectionism, people-pleasing, chronic anxiety, boundary struggles, or physical symptoms. I take a non-pathologizing approach—I don't see you as a diagnosis, but as a whole person navigating systems that weren't built for you.
As a Black, neurodivergent, queer woman, I don't just talk about this work—I live it. I believe healing should center liberation, authenticity, and radical self-compassion. I'm not here to fix you—you were never broken. I'm here to walk with you as you reclaim parts of yourself that have been silenced, shamed, or forgotten.
Outside the therapy room, you can catch me reading, meditating, doing yoga, searching for my next foodie spot, catching the latest Marvel premiere, watching college or professional football, or spending family time with my spouse and our two children. Fun Fact: I've been in Atlanta since first grade—it's my home and I love it here.
Credentials & Training
My Background
B.S. Psychology & Human Services
Clayton State University
M.S. Psychology
Specializations in Educational Psychology & Child and Adolescent Development
Capella University
M.A. Community Counseling
Argosy University
Georgia · LPC #LPC010223
Florida · Telehealth Provider #673
California · LPCC #14612
South Carolina · Telehealth Registered PC #TLC.1028.PC
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Trauma Healing Institute
Community mental health · Psychiatric hospitals · Veterans Affairs · Private practice
Sun-Wed
1074 Ponce De Leon Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA
Thursday
Available to clients in Georgia, Florida, California & South Carolina
By appointment only
New clients welcome.
Free 15-min consultation available.