Embodied Healing
Somatic therapy for women ready to feel whole, grounded, and alive again.
You’ve spent years learning how to keep it together. You learned to stay in your head, to keep moving, to do it all—without ever feeling fully safe in your body. You may have tried talk therapy, self-help, or mindfulness tools that helped a little… but still, something feels stuck.
Maybe it’s the anxiety and worry that never quite go away, or the restlessness in your body when you try to rest. Perhaps it’s the way your body holds the tension and pain of past experiences.
If you’re longing to feel at home in yourself again—not just functioning, but truly alive—somatic therapy may be the missing piece.
What Is somatic therapy ?
Somatic therapy is a trauma-informed, body-based approach to therapy that gently helps you reconnect with your body, repattern your nervous system, process emotions, and come home to yourself.
Instead of focusing only on thoughts or insight, somatic therapy helps you:
Release stored stress and trauma from the body
Build a felt sense of safety and trust in yourself
Reclaim your voice, your boundaries, and your energy
Navigate anxiety and emotional overwhelm from a place of grounded self-awareness
This is not just symptom management. It’s root-cause healing.
It’s the slow, sacred work of coming home to yourself.
What to Expect
Sessions are held virtually or in-person in Bend, Oregon.
We’ll move at a pace that honors your body’s timing. Sessions may include:
• Somatic tracking and grounding techniques
• Breathwork or movement-based inquiry
• Nervous system education and regulation
• Processing emotions stored in the body
• Integration of past experiences with present awareness
• EMDR, Brainspotting, or IFS informed parts work
This work is collaborative, intuitive, and deeply healing. There is no one right way to heal—just the path that feels most true to you.
Who I Work With
I specialize in working with women and femmes who identify as:
• Highly sensitive, intuitive, and often overwhelmed
• Ready to heal ancestral wounds
• Burnt out from years of over-functioning or people pleasing
• Healing from developmental trauma, relational trauma, or complex PTSD
• Living with chronic anxiety, freeze responses, or emotional dysregulation
• Navigating late-diagnosed ADHD or nervous system overwhelm
• Longing for a different kind of healing—one that honors the body’s wisdom
Whether you’re new to therapy or looking to go deeper, you’re welcome here.
Why somatic therapy?
Many of my clients say: “I’ve done years of therapy, but I still feel stuck.”
That’s because trauma, anxiety, and survival patterns don’t just live in the mind. They live in the body.
Embodied healing is different. Here’s how:
• Somatic & holistic — We’ll work with breath, movement, sensation, and attunement to help your body process what your mind can’t do alone.
• Custom to you — Every session is personalized. We may incorporate yoga therapy, somatic parts work, polyvagal-informed practices, EMDR or Brainspotting, and guided inner work.
• Relational & reparative — You don’t have to do this alone. I’ll walk with you as you learn to stay present with what arises, with gentleness and care.
• Depth-oriented — This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about lasting transformation that honors your whole self.
Read more about how anxiety can show up in the body here.
Ready to Begin?
You don’t have to keep overriding your body’s wisdom to survive.
This work will guide you toward a softer, more truthful, connection to yourself.
Book a free 20-minute consultation to take the first step.
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Your body has always known the way home. Let’s listen together.
Therapist Bio
Erica Barton, LPC, C-IAYT, is a licensed therapist and certified yoga therapist offering somatic therapy for anxiety, trauma, burnout, and nervous system healing. She is based out of Bend, Oregon and works virtually with clients across Oregon and beyond. Read more here.