Somatic Psychotherapy

02/22/2026

"The brain has not yet realized that it is made of body"
-JFT

02/19/2026

Interested in earning a doctorate in Somatic Psychology? CIIS is having a virtual open house this weekend!

https://www.ciis.edu/events/spring-open-house Virtual Open House is this weekend - check it out!

Experience CIIS at our Spring Open House—connect with community, explore programs, and imagine what’s next for your education.

02/04/2026

"You are how you move;
you live how you are."

02/01/2026

"The body is the site of sensory appreciation and creative self-fashioning."
- Shusterman, 2002

01/29/2026

AIs can beat us at narrow technical skills. To future-proof our careers and our education, we should focus beyond cognitive skills; social, emotional, physic...

01/29/2026

Embodiment is awareness itself.
-JFT

01/29/2026

Most people go to therapy to fix themselves: some people go to therapy to discover a new way of living in the world that brings forth their aliveness. I'm interested in working with folks who seek the latter.
For more information, please message me, or visit www.soma-psyche.com

01/25/2026

If you go to therapy to "get rid of bad feelings" you are wasting your time. Good therapy stems from learning to understand those feelings and develop self-compassion. This process allows you to grow your emotional container which will increase your empathy, resilience, and self-awareness.

After that, the "bad feelings" become a source of information, rather than something to get rid of.

01/22/2026

Have you thanked your body today?

01/20/2026

The process of grounding is not intended to "get rid of bad feelings," but to give you the choice to engage with your feelings from a different place.
-JFT

12/23/2025

Freud said, "The body, first and foremost, is an ego body."

Perhaps, then...

The ego, first and foremost,
is an emotional body."

12/20/2025

When you tap into your somatic consciousness, you are opening to new parts of yourself that your thoughts cannot access.