Your nervous system isn’t broken—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do. What gets labeled as “too much” is often a system responding brilliantly to overwhelm, noticing more, feeling more, processing more.

That’s what happens when a system trains you to equate stillness with danger or failure. Chronic vigilance isn’t a personality flaw—it’s your nervous system doing what it learned to do to keep you safe.

This show is not for everyone.  The Inked Therapist is a therapy podcast for the people the mental health system was never quite built for — queer and trans people, neurodivergent adults, trauma survivors, and anyone who has ever left a therapy session feeling like they performed something rather than healed something.  Hosted by Del Knight, PsyD, LPC, LMHC (they/them) — licensed psychotherapist, Certified Body Trust Specialist, and founder of Soma Roots Therapy — The Inked Therapist brings somatic therapy, body liberation, and liberation psychology into honest, unfiltered conversation.  This isn't a show for people who want a therapist who performs neutrality. It's not five steps to a better morning routine, or a meditation that will make the political moment feel okay, or a gentle reminder that you are enough — delivered in the same tone as a luxury candle advertisement.  This show is for people navigating complex trauma, chronic stress, neurodivergent burnout, and the specific exhaustion of performing normalcy in a world that wasn't designed for your brain or your body. For queer and trans people who have sat across from a well-meaning clinician and spent the session educating them. For neurodivergent people who left therapy more exhausted than they arrived.  If you're looking for queer-affirming therapy, trans-affirming mental health support, somatic healing for trauma, neurodivergent-affirming therapy, or a body-liberation-rooted approach to mental health — you've found your show.  Slow. Embodied. Rooted in liberation.  Welcome.

No emotion is morally good or bad—they’re messengers from your nervous system. Learn to feel what you feel without piling judgment on top. All of you is welcome.

Shopping for a therapist isn’t being “too picky”—it’s finding a fit that works. Your free consultation is an invitation to ask real questions, not a sales pitch.

Queer, trans, and nonbinary bodies break all the wrong rules—wrong, at least, according to systems that profit from conformity. Existing in your body as it is can be an act of refusal: refusal to shrink, to disappear, or to turn yourself into someone else’s idea of “normal.”

You’re not too much—you’re detailed. Body trust for queer, trans & nonbinary folks means refusing to shrink, disappear, or turn yourself into someone else’s normal.

Gender euphoria isn’t always cinematic—sometimes it’s laughing about how right your new shoes feel, or realizing you didn’t think about your chest for a whole hour. Trans & queer affirming therapy that centers joy, not just pain.

You are not a project; you are a person in process—already worthy, already whole. Decolonizing healing means reclaiming your right to define what healing looks like on your own terms, in your own body

What gets labeled as “too much” is often a nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do—notice more, feel more, process more. Your sensitivity isn’t a flaw; it’s your superpower. Soma Roots Therapy offers therapy that gets it.

Self-care has been commodified into a capitalist scam. Rest as resistance looks different—it’s about reclaiming what your body needs, not what wellness culture sells you. For LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent folks, especially those who are also BIPOC, this matters even more.

Body trust is the foundation of our somatic therapy for LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent folks. Learn why this value shapes everything we do at Soma Roots Therapy.

Meet Soma Roots Therapy: a radically affirming space for body-centered healing. We serve LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent communities across Oregon and Washington with somatic, decolonial care.