Services & Specialties for Body-Centered Healing
You Don't Have to Translate Yourself Here
Most therapy spaces ask you to do a lot of work before the work even begins — explaining your pronouns, justifying your diagnosis, softening your politics, or pretending your body isn't part of the conversation. We'd like to skip that part.
At Soma Roots Therapy, the room is already set up for you. That means your nervous system, your history, your identities, and your particular flavor of "this is a lot" are all welcome from the first session. We work slowly, carefully, and with genuine curiosity — not because we're in no hurry, but because we've learned that sustainable healing doesn't respond well to being rushed.
Below is what we offer and who tends to find their way here. If you read it and think that's me, actually — we'd love to meet you.
Services
We currently offer:
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Our Approach
We utilize the following therapeutic approaches:
Specialities
We enjoy working with a broad range of people and concerns. Also, we specialise in working with people who:
Carry trauma — developmental, relational, systemic, or the kind that doesn't have a clean origin story
Are exhausted by wellness culture and want healing that doesn't feel like another performance review
Have a body that's been medicalized, politicized, or simply ignored — and are trying to find their way back to it
Are queer, trans, nonbinary, or somewhere in the middle of figuring that out — and want a therapist who won't need a glossary
Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy
Are neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, or the "undiagnosed but deeply suspicious" variety) and have spent a lifetime masking in spaces that weren't built for them
Are therapists, helpers, or caregivers who are very good at holding space for everyone except themselves
A Note On Who We Serve
Soma Roots Therapy was built with specific communities in mind — queer, trans, and nonbinary folks; neurodivergent people; those navigating the intersection of systemic harm and personal healing. That said, we don't operate a velvet rope. If the values here resonate, if you want therapy that doesn't require you to shrink, and if you're willing to do slow, embodied, honest work — you're likely a good fit, regardless of how many of our "specialty" boxes you check.
Healing is not a members-only club. But it does require a space that takes you seriously. That's what we're here to offer.
FAQ - Services & Specialities
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Soma Roots Therapy offers trauma-informed therapy and clinical supervision, both rooted in Gestalt, Internal Family Systems, and somatic trauma approaches — available to clients and supervisees in Oregon and Washington. In short: if you're looking to do your own healing work, or you're a pre-licensed clinician looking for supervision that doesn't feel like being back in grad school, we've got a lane for you.
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Soma Roots Therapy centers trauma-informed, body-aware care, with particular focus on trans, queer, and neurodivergent clients — along with other communities that systems have worked hard to make vulnerable. Our approach is grounded in radical acceptance and decolonial practices, which means: we're not interested in helping you adjust to harmful systems, we're interested in helping you heal from them.
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Somatic therapy is a body-aware approach that looks at how stress, trauma, and emotion show up in the nervous system and body — not just in your thoughts (your body has been keeping the receipts). At Soma Roots Therapy, somatic work is integrated into trauma-informed psychotherapy to support healing, self-awareness, and reconnection with yourself.
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Our work is rooted in Gestalt, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and somatic trauma therapies — which, combined, means we're working with present-moment awareness, the many "parts" of you that show up in different situations (yes, even the ones you're not proud of), and the body's role in healing. Translation: insight is welcome, but it's not where the work ends.
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Therapy at Soma Roots Therapy is especially for people who've felt overlooked, misunderstood, or like they had to shrink themselves in other therapy spaces — including trans, nonbinary, queer, and neurodivergent clients, and other communities that systems have intentionally made vulnerable. If you've ever left a session thinking "that provider meant well, but..." — this might be a different experience.
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Yes — explicitly and unapologetically. Soma Roots Therapy is a supportive space for trans, nonbinary, and queer clients, with affirmation built into how we practice, not just how we advertise.
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Yes. Neurodivergent clients are explicitly named as part of who we serve — no masking, no apologizing for how your brain works, required.
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Yes — somatic therapy is often especially helpful for trauma specifically, because trauma doesn't just live in memory or thought, it lives in the nervous system (hello, random heart-racing during a totally normal Tuesday). Since Soma Roots Therapy is trauma-informed and rooted in somatic trauma therapies, this is often where the work has the most room to move.
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Yes — Soma Roots Therapy offers telehealth options, available to clients located in Oregon or Washington at the time of service (that part's non-negotiable, it's a licensing thing, not a vibes thing).
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Soma Roots Therapy is licensed to serve clients in Oregon and Washington. Wherever you are within those two states — coast, city, or somewhere in between — you're covered, as long as you're physically there during your session.
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Short version: if you're looking for your own healing work, that's therapy. If you're a pre-licensed clinician in Oregon or Washington looking for supervision, that's, well, supervision. Still not sure? A free 20-minute consultation can help sort it out — no need to have it figured out before you reach out.
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Yes. Soma Roots Therapy offers supervision for Oregon Professional Counselor Associates and Washington Mental Health Counselor Associates, with an approach that's developmentally supportive and affirming — including for the parts of you that don't fit the "default" clinician mold.
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Supervision at Soma Roots Therapy is developmentally supportive, meaning we meet you where you are in your training rather than expecting you to already have it all figured out (spoiler: nobody does). With over a decade of supervision experience — including adult-focused trauma work and work with trans and nonbinary clients — and current openings, this is supervision built for clinicians who want support that's as affirming as the care they're learning to provide.
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Yes — trauma-informed care isn't a buzzword here, it's the foundation. Whether you're working with us as a client or as a supervisee, trauma-informed practice shapes how we show up: paying attention to pacing, safety, and the impact of past experiences on present-day responses, rather than treating any of that as "extra."