Healing doesn’t just happen in the mind — it happens in the body, too.
Holistic Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety & Burnout in New York City
When overthinking, people pleasing, burnout, or emotional numbness take over — your body might be asking for a different kind of nervous system holistic healing.
What is Holistic Therapy?
Holistic therapy is a whole-person approach to healing that recognizes the mind, body, emotions, and nervous system are deeply connected. It integrates traditional talk therapy with body-based and mindfulness-based practices, so we’re not just analyzing your patterns — we’re helping your system feel safe enough to shift them.
In our work together, I weave in:
Somatic exercises - to help you connect to your body’s sensations and cues to connect mind-body-emotions)
Mindfulness, acceptance, & self-compassion practices - through teaching you or guiding in sessions
EMDR therapy for reprocessing trauma
Nervous system regulation and polyvagal theory to help you understand for fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses
Inner child and parts work when appropriate to connect with the parts of you that aren’t heard
Self care development like sleep, intentional movement, nutrition, environment, and support system
Journaling - I will give you journal prompts if you’d like and integrate what we work on after sessions
You won’t be rushed, pathologized, or expected to "push through." We’ll go at your pace and prioritize safety and trust — starting with the relationship you have with yourself.
Holistic therapy can help you:
Feel less stuck, frozen, or emotionally numb
Understand and regulate your nervous system responses (like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn)
Quiet the inner critic and soften perfectionism and self-expectations
Reconnect with your body and actually feel your emotions — safely
Heal the root causes of anxiety, trauma, burnout, people-pleasing patterns, and functional freeze
Build a more compassionate, secure relationship with yourself
Learn mindfulness and somatic tools that support real, lasting change
Let go of intellectualizing and analyzing your feelings and finally fully processing them
Is this fit right for you?
Holistic Therapy is right for you if…
You feel stuck in overthinking, over-functioning, or emotional numbness
You’ve tried talk therapy but still feel disconnected or frozen
You struggle with chronic anxiety and overwhelm, people pleasing, burnout, depression, codependency, or perfectionism
You have a history of trauma, attachment wounds, or people-pleasing patterns
You want to feel more at home in your body and in your life
You find yourself to be over-analyzing, intellectualizing, or avoiding your emotions and want to truly feel them
You have really big feelings and find yourself to “crash out” frequently and want to learn whats behind that and how to regulate them
Hi, I’m Alyssa — a holistic therapist offering nervous system-informed care.
I help insightful adults who are fine on the outside, but overwhelmed on the inside who feel stuck in survival mode — whether that’s anxiety, trauma, people-pleasing, burn out, perfectionism, or emotional numbness.
As a licensed therapist serving adults in New York, Washington DC, New Jersey, and Maryland, I specialize in a holistic, somatic approach to therapy that blends nervous system regulation, mindfulness, EMDR, and self-compassion work.
I believe healing happens not just through insight, but through safety, connection, and learning how to feel at home in your body again. In our work together, we’ll move gently — at your pace — to help you reconnect with yourself, release old patterns, and feel more grounded, whole, and empowered.
In work together, we will focus on…
Nervous System Regulation
Understanding your fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses and learning how to regulate your system so you can feel more grounded, less reactive, and emotionally safe.
Mind-Body Reconnection
Learning how to notice, listen to, and care for your body’s signals — so you don’t just intellectualize healing, you actually experience it.
Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Tools
We’ll bring in gentle, evidence-based practices like mindful self-awareness, guided grounding skills, and mindful self-compassion to help you soften the inner critic, stay present with difficult emotions, and begin responding to yourself with more kindness. These tools support nervous system regulation and help you build a more grounded, trusting relationship with yourself — one that isn’t rooted in shame, urgency, or perfectionism.
Holistic Therapy with me is…
Rooted in the nervous system, not just surface-level coping skills
Personalized to your needs, pace, and lived experience
A space to feel seen, not judged or rushed
A deeper path to healing for those who’ve outgrown quick fixes
Holistic Therapy with me is not…
Just talk therapy — we bring the body into the process
One-size-fits-all
A place for toxic positivity or pressure to “move on”
About managing symptoms without understanding the root
At the end of the day, I want you to know:
You’re not broken. The ways you’ve coped — shutting down, pushing through, people-pleasing, disconnecting — were all adaptive. Holistic therapy helps you understand why those patterns developed and how to start feeling safe enough to choose something different.
Questions?
FAQs: Holistic & Somatic Therapy
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Traditional talk therapy focuses on thoughts and behaviors. Holistic therapy integrates the body, nervous system, and emotions — helping you process trauma and stress in a deeper, more sustainable way. I often ask about your self care like movement, sleep, nutrition, hormone health, and who you surround yourself with as well.
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Absolutely. Chronic anxiety, functional freeze, and burnout are often signs of nervous system dysregulation. A holistic approach can help your system feel safe enough to soften and recalibrate.
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Not at all. I’ll guide you through it gently, step by step. You don’t need any experience — just curiosity and openness.
Let’s connect!