Somatic Therapy

For release, reconnection and nervous system support

At my vitae, you’re invited back into your body with gentleness and care through somatic therapy.

We offer two core somatic services, Somatic Release and Somatic Facial Therapy, both designed to help you explore what your body may be holding and how to shift it. These practices are for anyone navigating stress, chronic tension, emotional overwhelm or simply craving a deeper connection with themselves.

For When the Body Holds Tension, Patterns & Untold Stories

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Holistic Healing Space Rooted in Vitality

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Somatic Therapists

Lisa Nogueira

Lisa is a bodywork practitioner and healing facilitator who guides people from tension and stress into clarity, strength, and freedom. Rooted in a whole-body philosophy, her work bridges the physical, emotional, mental, and energetic layers to create transformation that’s both grounded and expansive

  • Lisa is a bodywork practitioner and healing facilitator who guides people from tension and stress into clarity, strength, and freedom.

    Rooted in a whole-body philosophy, her work bridges the physical, emotional, mental, and energetic layers to create transformation that’s both grounded and expansive. Known for her steady presence, Lis creates a space where clients feel safe, supported, and truly seen.

    Sessions weave Somatic Fascia Release, Energy Healing Facilitation, and subconscious reprogramming — releasing held tension, regulating the nervous system, and clearing energetic patterns. With precision and care, she helps clients experience greater mobility, emotional steadiness, and a restored sense of wholeness.

    Her work is sought by those ready for lasting change — leaving with a lighter body, a clearer perspective, and a renewed capacity to meet life fully.

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Somatic therapy blends body-based awareness with therapeutic techniques like movement, breath and touch. It works with the nervous system, not against it, to support emotional healing and physical release.

What Is Somatic Therapy?

An alternative to only talking through experiences, somatic healing helps:

  • Build safety and self-awareness from the inside out

  • Calm the body’s stress responses

  • Ease symptoms of anxiety, burnout, or overwhelm

  • Soften deeply held tension

All somatic therapy sessions are personalized, safe and trauma-informed with no expectation to inform of anything you’re not comfortable explaining.

Two Types of Somatic Therapy

This gentle, clothed treatment focuses on the face, head, jaw, and neck, areas where many of us hold unconscious stress.

Combining cranial massage and somatic awareness, it encourages relaxation, nervous system regulation and subtle emotional release.

 Somatic Facial Massage

This is a full-body experience using breath, movement, mindful touch and verbal guidance to release stored tension and shift long-held emotional patterns. 

Clients often report feeling lighter, calmer and more connected to their bodies.

Somatic Release

Common Questions for Gentle Guidance

  • Beautifully. Many clients combine somatic sessions with their psychotherapy, acupuncture or energy work for an integrated approach.

  • No, you’re welcome to explore somatic work for a variety of purposes, even ones as simple as wanting to feel more grounded, present or at ease in your own body.

  • Yes, somatic therapy at My Vitae is trauma-informed and paced gently. You’re always in charge of how much or how little you engage and your comfort is prioritized throughout.

  • You’re welcome to share but there’s no pressure to talk unless it feels helpful. Somatic therapy honors the body’s language first, quiet is often part of the process.