Somatic Therapy

In Los Angeles & California

Stress and trauma can impact both the mind and body

You've been doing everything right. So why does it still feel like something is missing?

You show up. For your career, your relationships, your family​, you meet the expectations. From the outside, you're holding it together. But inside, something feels off. Beneath the surface, you may be living with a mind that won't quiet down ​, thoughts that spiral, memories that resurface. without warning, a voice inside that tells you you're not enough, that you're failing, that something is wrong with you. These thoughts feel loud, relentless, and impossible to ignore. You may feel disconnected from yourself and the people you love ​, going through the motions while carrying an invisible weight. Emotionally depleted, often in a constant state of bracing for what's next. Overwhelmed not just by life's demands, but by your own inner world.

You've learned to put on a brave face. To keep moving. But rarely​, if ever​, do you feel truly safe inside yourself. This is what it can feel like to live with traumatic thought patterns, intrusive thoughts, and chronic negative self-talk. The body stays in survival mode long after the moment has passed. The mind replays, criticizes, and catastrophizes​, not because something is broken in you, but because you've been carrying far more than you should have to carry alone.

A Safe Space to Process and Heal

At Freedom and Soul Healing, Marguerite holds space for this experience ​, especially for BIPOC folks, Black women, Black men, Latinx communities, and immigrants who have often been asked to be strong in the face of so much. Through DBT and somatic therapy, we work with both the mind and the body to gently interrupt those thought cycles, rebuild a sense of inner safety, and help you feel grounded in yourself again.

You deserve more than coping. You deserve to feel at home in your own mind.

Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing that recognizes what the mind alone cannot always access or release. For BIPOC folks, Black women, Black men, Latinx communities, and immigrants, this work holds particular power, because so much of what we carry has never just been personal. It has been generational, cultural, and systemic.

Body Awareness is where we begin. Learning to notice sensations, tension, breath, and posture as doorways into what the body has been holding. For many in our communities, surviving has meant learning to disconnect from the body,  to push through, stay strong, and keep going. Racial trauma compounds this disconnection, as the body absorbs not only personal pain but the cumulative weight of discrimination, microaggressions, and the exhaustion of navigating systems that were not built with us in mind. Somatic therapy gently invites you back into yourself, on your own terms.

Grounding offers tools to help you feel anchored in the present moment when your nervous system is in overdrive. For those who have experienced chronic stress, racial trauma, immigration hardship, or ongoing survival pressures, the body often stays stuck in fight-or-flight long after the immediate threat has passed. When racism is not a single event but an ongoing lived reality, the nervous system rarely gets to rest. Grounding helps the nervous system learn , sometimes for the first time,  that safety is possible.

Release and Regulation creates a pathway for the stress, grief, and trauma stored in the body to move through and out. Trauma doesn't only live in memory , it lives in muscle tension, shallow breath, and a body that never fully relaxes. Racial trauma in particular can be difficult to process because it is often minimized, denied, or dismissed by the wider world, leaving the body to hold what has never been fully witnessed or validated. For communities that have been told to be strong, to not show weakness, or to simply keep moving, this is often the work that has never been given space before.

Integration is where body, mind, and story come together. This is the space to make meaning , to connect what the body has been carrying to lived experience, identity, cultural roots, and healing. Racial trauma does not exist in isolation; it intersects with family history, immigration experience, and the ongoing labor of existing in spaces that question your belonging. Integration is not about moving on from that reality it is about moving forward with more clarity, self-compassion, and an embodied sense of who you are beyond what you have endured.

You have always been more than what you've survived. This work is about coming home to yourself.