Somatic therapy in Florida, for women ready to come home to themselves
The impacts of trauma, grief, and big life changes do not just live in your thoughts. They live in your body. I offer somatic trauma therapy online across Florida, so healing can finally reach the places talk alone never could.
Book a Free 15 Minute ConsultationVirtual sessions for adults throughout Florida. Based in Orlando.
What is somatic therapy?
Somatic therapy is counseling that works with your body and nervous system, not only your thoughts. Instead of just talking about what happened, we gently work with how it lives in you now, so your body can finally learn that the danger has passed.
It is a strong fit for people who understand their story completely and still feel stuck in it. Read what somatic therapy actually feels like or see how I practice it.
Why talk therapy alone has not fixed it
Maybe you have done the therapy thing before. You can name your patterns, explain your childhood, and describe your triggers with impressive accuracy. And still, your body has not gotten the memo. Your shoulders stay up by your ears. Your stomach drops when the phone rings. You lie awake replaying conversations, or you feel strangely numb when you know you should feel something.
You're not stuck that way. It is your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do to keep you safe. And it can learn something new.
When your inner world feels like too much to carry, it ripples outward. Into your work, your relationships, and your ability to enjoy the things you love most. Somatic therapy works with the body and the nervous system directly, so the safety you have been trying to think your way into can become something you actually feel.
Trauma, grief, and life transition therapy online in Florida
Trauma & Complex PTSD Therapy
For the woman carrying wounds from childhood, past relationships, or experiences her body has never been allowed to put down. We work gently, at your pace, to help your nervous system learn that the danger is over so you can fully live your life.
Learn about complex PTSD therapyGrief Counseling
Grief is not a problem to solve. It is love with nowhere to go, and it lives in the chest, the throat, the bones. I will sit with you in it and help your body carry it differently.
Learn about grief supportLife Transitions Therapy
Leaving a relationship or a job that no longer fits. Becoming someone new after loss or burnout. When your life is asking you to change, therapy can help you listen to what your body already knows.
Learn about support for life transitionsYour emotions & expression of them are not the problem. They are the path.
The idea behind everything here
Meet Mandy Roux, somatic counselor in Orlando
I am a somatic counselor and a 500 hour trauma informed yoga and mindfulness educator with ten years of teaching experience. My work goes deeper than traditional talk therapy because I believe true healing is more than understanding your thoughts. It is teaching your body that you are safe.
I work with women healing from trauma, complex PTSD, grief, and life transitions. Together we tend to what happened, and then we map what comes next: reconnecting with your life force, rewriting your story, and walking toward the life and relationships that fit who you are becoming.
I am a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern in Florida, practicing under the supervision of a licensed clinician. Sessions are private pay at $150.
Nervous system regulation, not just insight
Most therapy starts and ends with talking. Ours will include your breath, your senses, and the signals your body sends you all day long. Drawing from somatic therapy, mindfulness, and trauma informed yoga, sessions help you:
- Notice what your body is telling you before your mind talks you out of it
- Build real skills for calming your nervous system when it spirals
- Release the tension and bracing you have been holding for years
- Reconnect with your goals, your boundaries, and your sense of what is yours to keep and what is yours to leave behind
Healing happens in small, repeatable moments of care that your body learns to trust. I weave in cognitive approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, so that you can take real steps towards a life that aligns with your values. We work together to shift thoughts, beliefs and patterns keeping you stuck from moving forward.
From the blog
What Is Somatic Therapy? How Body Based Healing Works
The gap between knowing your story and feeling better, and how body based healing closes it.
ReadHow to Calm Your Nervous System After Trauma: 5 Gentle Practices
Five small, gentle practices you can start today, from orienting to the longer exhale.
ReadWhen Grief Lives in the Body
The exhaustion, the heavy chest, the fog. Why grief is physical and what helps.
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You do not have to carry this alone
The hardest part is often the first email. If something here resonated, I would love to meet you. The free 15 minute consultation is a low pressure way to see if we are a good fit. Come as you are.
Or reach out directly: mandy@embodiedhealingcounseling.com | (407) 374-9079