Professional, proven therapeutic approaches that reconnects your body, mind, and emotions
Together, we will use proven therapeutic strategies tailored to your needs. Using a therapeutic approach designed for you will help you achieve your goals and feel better.
My body-centered therapeutic approaches go beyond talking-based therapy. We’ll incorporate therapy techniques that engage your body as well as your mind. This approach helps you reconnect with your whole self and move beyond unconscious, deeply held behavior patterns that no longer serve you.
You’ll also gain insights and clarity into your daily life and relationships that help you create lasting change in your life.
What happens during body-centered therapy?
Sessions are your time to focus on you and your needs.
- Conversations to identify what you’re experiencing and needing to focus on at present
- Body-based, expressive, and mindful techniques to help you achieve a deeper level of healing
- Psychoeducation to build your understanding of your experiences, increase clarity of unconscious patterns, and ensure you can apply gains made in therapy on your own
The priority of every session is for you to feel heard, seen, and understood, so you can move toward feeling more empowered and present in your life.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Body-Centered Therapy?
Body-Centered Therapy, which can also be described as Somatic Therapy, is a Mental Health Therapy approach that engages both your body as well as your mind. Sessions include body-based, expressive, and mindful techniques that help you reconnect with your internal signals, emotions, and behavior patterns. It also allows for your body to complete cycles of stress, and shame, making space for your body to guide your healing. Body-Centered Therapy believes in the importance of our nervous system, and is supported by neuroscience.
How is Body-Centered Therapy different from Traditional Talk Therapy?
Body-Centered Therapy includes talking, but is rooted in the belief that the body must be incorporated in the therapeutic process. Relating to the body, listening to somatic cues, and learning to follow body impulses results in deeper work, results that last longer, are further reaching into a person’s life, and build upon your body and brain’s innate abilities to heal. The experiences in the body are tied together in meaning making through talking.
How do I know if a Body-Centered Therapy approach is right for me?
Body-Centered Therapy may be a good fit if you believe that your body is expressing and holding your life experiences, your struggles, joys and everything in between. It may be right for you notice any way your body is impacting your life, including: feeling disconnected from your body, that your body is holding on to stress, you have unexplained medical ailments or chronic illness seems to move to different parts of your body. Body-Centered and Somatic Therapy can use this body communication to help you reconnect with your whole self and create meaningful, lasting change.
Is Body-Centered Therapy only for people who have done therapy before?
Nope! Body-Centered Therapy is appropriate whether you’ve had therapy before or are seeking help for the first time.
Learn more about my body-centered
therapy approaches and services
These body-centered therapy approaches—including somatic, expressive, EMDR, and dance/movement therapy—are offered to women in Massachusetts and the Greater Boston area through in-person and telehealth sessions with Kimberly S. Bevans, LMHC, BC-DMT.
Sessions are tailored to your needs. This is your time to focus on you. Learn more about the approaches I incorporate in sessions to help you achieve your therapy goals.
