Online somatic therapy from just $35/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) trained in body-based approaches. At Grouport, we offer online individual therapy, online group therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, and virtual IOP options. Somatic therapy works from the body up, addressing what talk therapy often cannot reach.
Traditional therapy asks you to talk about what happened. Somatic therapy asks you to notice what is happening in your body right now. Developed by pioneers like Dr. Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) and Dr. Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy), somatic approaches are grounded in neuroscience research showing that trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress get stored in the body and nervous system, not just in thoughts and memories. In a randomized controlled trial, participants who received Somatic Experiencing showed significant reductions in PTSD symptoms and depression, with improvements maintained after treatment ended.
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At Grouport, we offer multiple ways to access somatic therapy, all led by licensed clinicians. Whether you prefer individual sessions for deep nervous system work, group therapy where shared body-based practices create safety, couples or family sessions, teen therapy, or a more intensive program, our somatic-informed offerings are designed to help you reconnect with your body, release stored tension, and regulate your nervous system.
Our online somatic therapy is designed to help you heal trauma, reduce anxiety, and reconnect with your body through a structured, body-based approach. Here is how to get started.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Start your healing journey. Your therapist will guide you through body-based techniques including body awareness, grounding, nervous system regulation, and gentle processing of stored tension. Our team will support you every step of the way.
Whether you want individual somatic therapy, group sessions for body-based skill-building, a combination of both, or our IOP program for more intensive care, you will start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly.
After signing up, you will connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your challenges, goals, and where you are in the change process. They will match you with a therapist trained in somatic approaches and walk you through your options. You will make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you will meet with and session times.
Start your healing journey. Your therapist will guide you through body-based techniques: developing body awareness, building resources for nervous system regulation, and gently processing stored trauma and tension. Most people begin to notice shifts in how their body holds stress within the first few sessions. Our team will be here to support you at every step.
Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that recognizes a fundamental truth: trauma, stress, and emotional pain are not just stored in your mind. They live in your body, in tight muscles, shallow breathing, a racing heart, numbness, chronic tension, and a nervous system stuck in survival mode. Somatic therapy works from the bottom up, addressing the body first to create changes that ripple upward into thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
The most established somatic approaches include Somatic Experiencing (SE), developed by Dr. Peter Levine, which focuses on completing the body's interrupted defensive responses to trauma, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, developed by Dr. Pat Ogden, which integrates body-oriented techniques with cognitive and emotional processing. Both are grounded in neuroscience research on how the nervous system responds to threat and how those responses become stuck when trauma is not fully processed.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, somatic therapy does not require you to retell your trauma story in detail. Instead, your therapist helps you develop awareness of bodily sensations (interoception), notice how your nervous system shifts between states of activation and calm, and gently release the stored energy of trauma. A randomized controlled trial found that Somatic Experiencing significantly reduced PTSD symptoms and depression, with improvements lasting well beyond the end of treatment. Somatic therapy also shows promise for anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and dissociation.
Somatic therapy does not just treat symptoms in your mind. It changes how your body holds and responds to stress, creating shifts you can feel physically.
When your nervous system is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze mode, everything feels harder: sleep, concentration, relationships, even digestion. Somatic therapy teaches you to notice when your nervous system is activated and gently guide it back toward calm. Over time, your baseline state shifts from hypervigilance or shutdown toward a regulated, present, and responsive place.
Trauma leaves an imprint on the body: tension patterns, startle responses, areas of numbness or chronic pain. Somatic therapy helps you gently access and release this stored activation without requiring you to relive the trauma verbally. Through techniques like titration (processing small amounts at a time) and pendulation (moving between activation and calm), the body completes its natural healing process.
Anxiety is not just worried thoughts. It is a racing heart, tight chest, shallow breathing, and a body braced for danger. Somatic therapy works directly with these physical manifestations, teaching you to use your body as a tool for calming the mind rather than the other way around. Grounding, breathing, and body awareness become practical skills you carry with you everywhere.
Many people who have experienced trauma learn to disconnect from their bodies as a survival strategy. You may feel numb, "not in your body," or unable to identify what you are feeling physically. Somatic therapy gently rebuilds this mind-body connection, helping you feel safe in your own skin again. This reconnection is often described as one of the most profound shifts people experience in therapy.
Chronic pain and trauma are deeply connected: research shows they frequently co-occur, and the same nervous system dysregulation that maintains PTSD can drive chronic pain conditions. Somatic therapy addresses both simultaneously, helping reduce pain-related fear, muscle tension, and the nervous system activation that amplifies pain signals.
Somatic therapy does not just heal old wounds. It builds your capacity to handle future stress with more flexibility and less overwhelm. By expanding your "window of tolerance," the range of experience you can process without shutting down or becoming overwhelmed, you develop a resilience that protects you long after therapy ends.
Somatic therapy follows a phased approach that prioritizes safety and moves at your body's pace. Each phase builds capacity for deeper work.
Your therapist begins by creating safety and helping you build "resources," internal and external sources of stability and calm. You learn to notice bodily sensations without being overwhelmed by them, practice grounding techniques, and identify the places in your body that feel safe or neutral. This foundation is essential before any deeper processing begins.
With a foundation of safety in place, your therapist guides you to gently approach areas of activation in the body. Using techniques like titration (processing small amounts at a time) and pendulation (moving between activated and calm states), you allow the body to complete its natural healing process. This might involve noticing a tightness, allowing it to shift, and feeling the release that follows. The pace is always guided by what your body can tolerate.
As stored activation is released, you develop a new relationship with your body. Sensations that once triggered panic become manageable information. Your window of tolerance expands, meaning you can handle more stress without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down. You integrate these changes into daily life, carrying grounding and regulation skills with you as lasting tools for resilience.
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“I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or depression. The therapists are top notch and have made me feel really comfortable and my anxiety has improved tremendously in only a few sessions!”
Isabel
"I joined Grouport to work on myself and to heal. I’m learning so much at every session! The change I see not only in myself but in my fellow group members is abundantly encouraging and profoundly fulfilling. Group therapy with Grouport is a powerful healing tool."
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"Grouport's approach to DBT is a real strength. This approach provides tools and methods for working with difficult emotions and getting a handle on them. It has given me hope where other approaches have failed."
Somatic therapy is effective for any condition where the body holds unresolved stress, tension, or activation. It is especially powerful for trauma-related conditions and those with a strong physical component.
Somatic therapy has its strongest evidence for PTSD. A randomized controlled trial found Somatic Experiencing significantly reduced PTSD symptoms, with gains maintained at follow-up. Unlike exposure-based therapies, somatic approaches do not require detailed retelling of the trauma, making them a valuable option for people who find verbal processing overwhelming or re-traumatizing.
For people who experienced chronic, repeated trauma, especially in childhood, the effects are deeply embedded in the nervous system and body. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy was specifically designed for complex trauma, addressing both the physiological dysregulation and the dissociative symptoms that traditional therapies often struggle to reach. Research at a National Trauma Centre showed statistically significant improvements in PTSD, depression, and social functioning.
Anxiety is fundamentally a nervous system response. While CBT works with the thoughts that fuel anxiety, somatic therapy works directly with the body's alarm system. By learning to track and regulate physical activation, you develop the ability to calm anxiety from the inside out, which can be especially effective for panic and somatic anxiety symptoms.
Chronic pain and trauma frequently co-occur. Research on Somatic Experiencing for chronic low back pain found improvements in pain-related fear, impairment, and catastrophizing. By addressing the nervous system dysregulation that amplifies pain signals, somatic therapy can reduce the intensity and impact of chronic pain conditions alongside traditional medical treatment.
Dissociation, the experience of feeling disconnected from your body, emotions, or surroundings, is a common response to overwhelming stress or trauma. Somatic therapy gently helps you re-establish connection with bodily sensations at a pace that feels safe, gradually rebuilding the mind-body bridge that dissociation disrupts.
Depression often involves a nervous system that has shifted into a state of shutdown or collapse. The Somatic Experiencing RCT found significant reductions in depressive symptoms alongside PTSD improvement. By helping the body move out of shutdown and back toward engaged aliveness, somatic therapy addresses depression at a physiological level that complements cognitive approaches.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in somatic and body-based approaches, with extensive clinical experience in trauma, PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and stress-related conditions.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in somatic, body-based, and trauma-informed approaches, as well as PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and stress. Our therapists are trained in somatic therapy and other proven modalities to provide the best fit for your needs.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne, ensuring our somatic therapy is grounded in the latest clinical evidence.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
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Somatic therapy is highly effective for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and stress-related conditions, and our licensed therapists are experienced in treating all of these challenges and more. Many members combine somatic therapy with other evidence-based approaches to address co-occurring concerns through our flexible therapy options.
Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that works with physical sensations, nervous system responses, and bodily tension rather than just thoughts and emotions. Developed by pioneers like Dr. Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) and Dr. Pat Ogden (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy), somatic therapy is grounded in neuroscience showing that trauma, stress, and anxiety get stored in the body. A randomized controlled trial found significant reductions in PTSD symptoms and depression, with gains maintained after treatment ended.
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy formats for comprehensive support.
Yes. Our therapists are licensed mental health professionals (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) with training in somatic and body-based approaches for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and stress-related conditions. Learn more about the therapists.
CBT works top-down, starting with thoughts to change emotions and behavior. Somatic therapy works bottom-up, starting with bodily sensations and nervous system regulation to create changes that ripple upward. CBT asks "what are you thinking?" Somatic therapy asks "what are you noticing in your body?" Both are valuable, and many therapists integrate elements of both for comprehensive treatment.
The length of somatic therapy varies based on individual needs and the complexity of what you are processing. Many people notice meaningful shifts in how their body holds stress within the first several sessions. At Grouport, 70% of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks. Your therapist will work with you to determine the right pace.
Yes. While some somatic techniques involve hands-on work, many core approaches like body awareness, breathing, grounding, tracking sensations, and guided processing work effectively over video. All Grouport sessions are held via secure, HIPAA-compliant video chat.
Somatic therapy is available across multiple therapy formats: Group Therapy averages $32/session ($140/month). Individual Therapy averages $103/session ($448/month). Couples Therapy averages $114/session ($496/month). Family Therapy averages $148/session ($644/month). IOP is $311/week. Teen Therapy averages $103/session ($448/month). Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!
You can cancel anytime, and your membership will remain active until the end of your current billing period. To cancel, email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. You can view more information on our Recurring Billing Policy.
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. 80% of our members start therapy with moderate to severe symptoms. Within just 8 weeks, 70% of members see clinically significant reduction in anxiety and depression, and 50% achieve remission levels. Read real member stories here.
Somatic therapy has its strongest evidence for PTSD and trauma-related conditions. It is also effective for complex PTSD, anxiety, panic, chronic pain, depression, dissociation, somatic symptoms, and chronic stress. It is especially valuable for people who find traditional talk therapy insufficient or who experience symptoms primarily in their body.
No. This is one of the most important differences between somatic therapy and traditional trauma treatments like Prolonged Exposure or CPT. Somatic therapy works primarily with bodily sensations and nervous system responses rather than detailed verbal accounts. While some discussion of your experiences may be helpful, the focus is on what your body is doing in the present moment, not retelling the past.
Grouport is available worldwide for everyone! We serve clients of all ages and backgrounds, with all sessions held virtually over video chat. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens & Adolescents (under 18).
Yes! After signing up, a care coordinator will reach out to understand your needs and match you with a therapist and schedule of your choosing. You will be able to choose your therapist. Most members are placed within a few hours, or within 24-72 hours max. Flexible options: If you ever want to switch therapists, we can easily make adjustments to ensure the best fit.
Both are body-based trauma therapies. Somatic Experiencing, developed by Dr. Peter Levine, focuses on tracking and releasing the body's stored survival energy through awareness of internal sensations. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, developed by Dr. Pat Ogden, integrates body-oriented techniques with cognitive and emotional processing, working across all three levels simultaneously. Many therapists draw from both approaches to tailor treatment to your needs.
No. While somatic therapy does help you achieve a calmer nervous system, it is not the same as relaxation training. Somatic therapy specifically addresses stored physical activation from trauma and stress, helps you complete interrupted defensive responses, and expands your window of tolerance. Relaxation is often a result, but the therapeutic process involves actively engaging with and processing bodily experiences.
Yes. Chronic pain and trauma frequently co-occur, and research shows that the same nervous system dysregulation that maintains PTSD can drive chronic pain conditions. Somatic Experiencing research found improvements in pain-related fear, impairment, and catastrophizing. By addressing the nervous system component of chronic pain, somatic therapy can complement medical treatment.
Yes. Body-based approaches can be especially effective for young people who may struggle to articulate their experiences verbally. At Grouport, we offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens & Adolescents (under 18) to ensure age-appropriate support.
Whether you are recovering from trauma, living with anxiety that shows up in your body, dealing with chronic pain, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, somatic therapy can help you heal from the body up. With licensed therapists, growing research evidence, and flexible online formats, Grouport makes it easy to get started. Take the first step toward feeling safe in your own body today.
