Online Somatic Therapy

Come home to your body—on your own terms.

If you’ve ever felt shut down, on edge, or disconnected from yourself, you’re not alone. Trauma, chronic stress, and emotional overload often live in the body, not just the mind.

Somatic therapy offers a different way to heal—one that starts with listening to your body, not overriding it.

And you don’t need to be in a therapist’s office to begin. At Tidal Trauma Centre, our trauma-informed somatic therapists offer online sessions to clients across BC. You can begin this work from your own home, at your own pace.

What Is Online Somatic Therapy?

Somatic therapy focuses on the body’s role in processing trauma, stress, and emotional experiences.
Instead of staying in your head, it helps you gently reconnect with physical sensations, movement, and nervous system cues.

Online somatic therapy may include:

  • Body-based awareness and tracking

  • Guided grounding and resourcing exercises

  • Breathwork, movement, and stillness

  • Emotional processing through felt sense

  • Co-regulation with your therapist in real time

We use approaches like Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and somatic relational therapy, adapted for a secure virtual setting.

Somatic Therapists Working in Surrey BC

Does Somatic Therapy Work Online?

Yes—especially when trauma has made in-person spaces feel overstimulating or unsafe.

You can engage in powerful nervous system work from the comfort of your home, with access to supportive objects, pets, or rituals that help your system settle.

Many clients find it easier to go deeper when they don’t need to commute, mask, or adjust to a new space.

All you need is a private setting, a stable internet connection, and a willingness to listen inward.

Our Approach to Online Somatic Therapy

No two bodies are the same — and no two sessions are either. Our somatic therapists draw from a range of approaches and adapt each session to meet your system where it is. Somatic therapy at Tidal isn’t about chasing symptom relief. It’s about building capacity, supporting integration, and working at a pace that honours your body’s internal timing.

Somatic Experiencing (SE)

Somatic Experiencing focuses on supporting the body in completing stress responses that were interrupted by trauma. Rather than diving into the story of what happened, SE helps you track internal sensations, movements, and shifts in real time. This approach can gently guide the nervous system out of freeze, collapse, or hyperarousal, supporting regulation and a growing sense of internal safety.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy integrates movement, posture, and sensation with talk therapy to access experiences that may not be fully available through words. It helps you become aware of how your body has adapted to survive — in muscle tension, gestures, or patterns of holding. Through mindful attention to these somatic cues, new possibilities for emotional processing and integration can emerge.

Somatic Attachment Therapy

Somatic Attachment Therapy bridges body-based work with early relational experiences. It focuses on how attachment wounds show up physically — in breath, body posture, and nervous system responses. This approach can help you build more internal capacity to tolerate closeness, connection, and vulnerability. Over time, it supports a shift from protective survival strategies toward more secure, embodied relating.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS offers a respectful, non-pathologizing way to explore the different “parts” of you that may hold pain, protection, or conflicting emotions. Combined with somatic work, IFS helps you tune into where these parts live in the body — whether as tightness, numbness, or instinctive impulses. By bringing compassion and curiosity to these inner dynamics, it becomes possible to access and care for exiled parts while respecting the protectors that keep them hidden.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR supports the reprocessing of trauma memories and emotional material that may be stuck or overwhelming. While often known for its use of bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements), EMDR also draws on body awareness and present-moment tracking. When used in a somatic context, EMDR can help release the physical intensity of past experiences and allow the nervous system to integrate them more fully, without re-traumatization.

What to Expect in an Online Session

Somatic sessions are gentle, collaborative, and adjustable.

You might:

  • Track sensations with guidance from your therapist

  • Use props like weighted blankets or grounding objects

  • Explore boundaries, movement, or stillness as emotional tools

  • Pause often to check in with your body’s signals

You will never be pushed beyond your window of tolerance.
Everything is consent-based, titrated, and paced with care.

online somatic therapists work virtually with somatic experiencing in Surrey BC

Available Anywhere in British Columbia

We offer somatic therapy sessions online to clients across British Columbia, in Vancouver BC but also rural and underserved areas.

You can access body-based trauma therapy from:
• Prince Rupert, Kitimat, and Haida Gwaii
• Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, and Dawson Creek
• Vernon, Salmon Arm, and Kamloops
• Nelson, Castlegar, and Trail
• Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast
• Tofino, Port McNeill, and other Island communities
• Remote or First Nations communities with limited local mental health resources

f you have a private space and stable internet, you can access this work from anywhere in the province.

Prefer in-person therapy?

Explore AEDP and Emotion-Focused Therapy in Surrey.

Online Somatic Therapy May Be Right for You If You…

  • Freeze, dissociate, or feel disconnected from your body

  • Feel overwhelmed by talk therapy or insight alone

  • Have trauma, chronic stress, or medical trauma stored in your system

  • Struggle with emotional regulation or sensory sensitivity

  • Want support that honours your body's wisdom and pace

Ready to Begin Somatic Therapy Online?

You don’t need to have the words.
You don’t need to be calm first.
You just need a willingness to begin listening to what your body already knows.

Fill out a New Client Form and we’ll match you with one or more virtual therapists trained in somatic therapies.

Book a free consult or appointment using our secure online platform, whenever you’re ready.

Not sure how to choose a therapist?
Client Guide to Consult Calls.

FAQs

Do I have to turn my camera on?
Not always. Some clients prefer audio-only for safety or sensory reasons. Your therapist will work with your comfort level.

What if I dissociate during session?
That’s part of the work. Our therapists are trained to help you ground gently and return to the present moment.

Do I need special equipment?
No. Just a quiet space, a device with video, and anything that helps you feel regulated—like a cozy blanket, water, or journal.

Can somatic therapy help even if I don’t feel connected to my body?
Yes. Somatic therapy can begin with very small, safe steps. Disconnection is often the starting point—not the barrier.