If you are currently experiencing...

✧ Living From the Neck Up: Feeling completely disconnected from your physical body or viewing your body as something to manage and control

✧ Physical Tension & Vigilance: Clenching your jaw, curling your legs, tightening the shoulders, shallow breathing, or an underlying physical restlessness

✧Emotional Flooding or Numbness: Swinging between feeling overwhelmed by intense body sensations or feeling completely frozen and detached

✧ Intellectualizing Your Stress: Understanding why you feel anxious or traumatized, but finding that there hasn't been much change in how your body reacts

Then imagine moving toward...

✧ Embodied Presence: Feeling comfortably rooted in your body, trusting your gut intuition, and experiencing true physical presence

✧ Physical Ease & Relaxation: Softening held tension, breathing deeply into your belly, and helping your physical body learn it is safe to relax

✧ Nervous System Capacity: Staying grounded through difficult emotions, understanding your body's signals, and returning to calm

✧ Somatic Resolution: Releasing stress at the physiological root so your body's physical state finally matches your mental clarity.

As a Somatic EMDR therapist, therapy with me could look like:

✧ Somatic Tracking & Bodily Awareness: Learning to gently notice physical sensations (a tight chest, a knot in your stomach, clenched toes) without judgment, panic, or rushing to fix them.

✧ Grounding & Resourcing: Utilizing physical touchpoints, gravity, and sensory tools such as feeling your feet firmly planted or using weighted comfort to signal safety to your nervous system.

✧ Physical Movement: Safely releasing trapped fight, flight, or freeze energy through subtle movements, shoulder drops, sighing out loud, or stretching out held tension.

✧ Boundary Embodiment: Practicing physical boundary awareness in session by learning what a clear, embodied "yes" and "no" actually feel like in your muscles and gut.

© 2026 Elizabeth Ngoc Nguyen, LMFT. All rights reserved.

Elizabeth Ngoc Nguyen, LMFT #149993

elizabeth.nguyen@fruiteatherapy.com

(657) 233-1833

10265 Rockingham Dr Ste 100 PMB 6065

Sacramento, CA 95827-2566

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