Melissa Cameron Therapy

02/05/2026

Sometimes it is the little things that make life better. We have a new sign and a new emotions wheel for the office. 🤸🤸🤸

01/20/2026

Asana is the 3rd limb of yoga—and it’s so much more than “stretching.” In a yoga-infused psychotherapy lens, asana is a practice of nervous-system regulation: learning how to be in your body with steadiness, choice, and care.

In the Yoga Sutras, asana is described through two essential qualities:
Sthira + Sukha
✨ Sthira = steady, stable, strong
✨ Sukha = ease, softness, spaciousness

Mental wellbeing often asks for the same balance. Too much sthira without sukha can look like gripping, perfectionism, pushing through. Too much sukha without sthira can feel like collapse, avoidance, or drifting. Asana becomes the middle path: grounded enough to stay, gentle enough to breathe.

Try this as a somatic-asana practice today (2 minutes):

-Stand or sit tall and feel your feet / sit bones (sthira).
-Exhale and soften your jaw, shoulders, and belly (sukha).
-Ask: Where do I need more steadiness? Where do I need more ease?
-Make one small adjustment—then take 3 slow breaths.

Asana teaches a quiet truth: you can build strength without abandoning softness.
And you can find ease without losing your strength.

12/29/2025

Pranayama is the 4th limb of yoga, and it’s often translated as breath control—but it’s deeper than that. “Prana” is life force (vital energy) and “ayama” is expansion or regulation. So pranayama is essentially learning to work with your breath to influence your energy and your nervous system.

From a somatic therapy lens, pranayama is a direct line to the body’s safety system: your breath can cue calm (ventral vagal), mobilization, or shutdown. The goal isn’t to “breathe perfectly”—it’s to build body awareness, choice, and steadiness when stress shows up.

Here's a quick calming breathing practice to create a calming response that takes only 1-2 minutes.

✨ Inhale through the nose for 4-5… exhale for 6–8.
✨ Repeat for 5 rounds.
✨ Longer exhales signal “we’re safe” and help reduce physiological arousal.

12/26/2025

The Niyamas are yoga’s inner practices—basically a roadmap for self-relationship. In somatic therapy, we work similarly: not forcing change, but creating safety in the body so change can happen.

Try one Niyama as a somatic practice today:

-Saucha (clarity): take 3 slow breaths and unclench your jaw
-Santosha (contentment): name one thing that’s “good enough” right now
-Tapas (steady effort): choose the smallest next step you’ll actually do
-Svadhyaya (self-study): notice where your body says “yes” vs. “no”
-Ishvara Pranidhana (release): exhale like you’re setting something down

You don’t have to think your way out of stress. You can practice your way home—one sensation at a time.

12/16/2025

The 1st limb, Yamas, is about our relationship with the world and relational nervous system hygiene—how we reduce harm and increase steadiness in the way we think, speak, and connect. In mental health terms, they’re like values-based boundaries + compassion + integrity, practiced in real time.
💚 Ahisma: isn’t letting yourself off the hook—it’s speaking to yourself in a way your nervous system can actually hear
💚Satya: Truth without kindness is sharp. Kindness without truth is confusing. Satya + ahimsa together = clarity with care
💚 Asteya: is refusing to live on emotional overdraft.
💚 Bramacharya: Wise energy isn’t laziness—it’s regulation.
💚 Aparigraha: is loosening your grip without losing your heart.

Start with non-harming—especially toward yourself.
Notice where “self-attack” lives in the body (jaw, throat, gut, chest).
Inhale: soften. Exhale: release effort.

12/13/2025

When anxiety is in your body…
Anxiety isn’t just a thought pattern—it’s a body pattern.
A racing mind often follows a racing nervous system.
Try lengthening your exhale and letting your gaze soften.
Even 10 seconds can begin to shift the signal from danger to here-and-now.
✨ Small practices build substantial safety over time.✨

12/11/2025

How can somatic therapy help?

🙏 It’s therapy that includes your body’s language.

✌ We might explore: breath / tension / boundaries / non-striving / body awareness

💚The places you “know” something before you can explain it

Because healing isn’t only cognitive. It’s relational. It’s physiological. It’s lived.

12/10/2025

Therapy for the whole you—mind and body.
I’m a Tulsa Licensed Professional Counselor
specializing in somatic therapy and Eastern
philosophy-informed counseling, including
mindfulness, meditation, and yoga-based tools.

I work with adult individuals and couples and offer an
LGBTQ+ affirming, multicultural-informed space.

📍 Tulsa | In-person + telehealth

Contact INFO My therapy office is located inside of ORA: Mind + Body at 15th and Harvard. The office has a private entrance and ample parking. The office is open by appointment only.CALL/TEXT: 918-884-7078EMAIL: hello@melissajoycameron.comFor emergencies, please call 911. LOCATION ADDRESSORA’s: 15...

12/09/2025

🌱 Try this with me—just 10 seconds:

Press your feet gently into the floor.

Notice your shoulders without changing them.

Exhale like you’re fogging a mirror.

Notice any subtle changes.

This is not “small.”

🌱 This is the start of returning to yourself.

11/03/2025

So much focus on mental health or behavioral health (this one is my least favorite).

Maybe it’s time to talk more about emotional health.

And social health.

Not to mention, the connectivity between all of the parts of ourselves.

What does the mind have to say about our emotions. Or about our sense of belonging. Because these questions might have important insights.