Inviting the body
into talk therapy.
Somatic Experiencing therapy in Atlanta — a body-based approach to healing trauma that increases awareness, restores nervous system regulation, and helps you move forward without re-traumatizing yourself.
Increasing awareness and mindfulness through the body.
Repeated trauma and/or stressors can often impact the nervous system in a way that takes it outside of its normal rhythm. This trauma builds up energy that may remain stuck and has not been released.
When this happens, the nervous system may have difficulty handling the ebbs and flows of daily life — making it difficult to concentrate, manage emotions, handle stress, interact with others, or remain in the present moment.
Harmony returns to your nervous system — one sensation at a time.
Somatic Experiencing aims to bring harmony back to your nervous system. This method slows you down as you revisit the trauma to explore your sensations in the present moment. We may pause during parts of the session to bring awareness to what is going on in your body, memory, senses, or sensations you are noticing.
Bringing mindfulness and flow back to your body helps reset your body's natural rhythm and releases built-up energy caused by trauma.
Slowing down is the key to moving
through trauma without re-traumatizing yourself.
Your therapist will assist you in taking it slow to process what is coming up in sessions — always at your pace, always with your consent. The nervous system heals not through pushing, but through gentle, titrated return.
Slowing Down
Sessions begin by slowing down — not pushing in. We build a felt sense of the present moment in your body before moving toward anything difficult.
Tracking Sensations
We bring awareness to what is happening in your body, memory, and senses — pausing when needed to notice and process what arises, without overwhelm.
Releasing & Restoring
Stored energy is released, built-up tension completes its cycle, and your nervous system's natural flow begins to restore — building new capacity over time.
Shae Ivie-Williams is a trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
Shae holds certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) through the Somatic Experiencing International training program — a multi-year clinical training in body-based trauma healing. She integrates SE alongside EMDR, IFS, and sound healing for a whole-person approach to trauma recovery.
Learn more about Shae →Certified
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner · SEP
The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.
— traumahealing.org · Somatic Experiencing International
Trauma
Single-incident, complex, and developmental trauma stored in the nervous system as unresolved survival energy.
Childhood Trauma
Early adverse experiences that shaped the nervous system's baseline and continue to affect daily functioning.
Sexual Assault
Processing the stored impact of sexual trauma gently, at the body's pace, without retelling in detail.
Car Accidents
Completing the freeze or fight-flight response activated during an accident that may still be held in the body.
PTSD
Addressing post-traumatic stress at the nervous system level — not just cognitively, but somatically and fully.
And Much More
Any experience that has left the nervous system stuck, contracted, or unable to return to ease and presence.
Listen to a quick talk about Trauma and Somatic Experiencing from the founder of the method, Peter Levine — available at traumahealing.org. Somatic Experiencing was developed by Dr. Peter Levine and has been practiced worldwide for over 45 years.
Somatic Experiencing therapy — wherever works for you.
I provide Somatic Experiencing therapy both virtually and in person. Research confirms that virtual therapy is as effective as in-person — with the added flexibility of fitting into your life.
For in-person sessions: I provide sessions at 1074 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30306 on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.
I'm Ready to BeginNo commute, no traffic
Log on from wherever you feel most at ease — home, car, or anywhere private.
Sessions during your breaks
Lunchtime, evenings, between pickups — therapy that fits around your life.
Comfort of your own home
Healing in a familiar space can itself support the nervous system's sense of safety.
Your body already knows
the way back to itself.
Somatic Experiencing therapy at The Healing Spot is by appointment only. Reach out today to begin.
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