Somatic Therapy for High-Functioning Women Ready to Find Themselves Again

For thoughtful, capable women who are tired of holding everything together and ready to find themselves again.

Somewhere along the way, you stopped asking yourself what you need.

You're thoughtful, capable, and often the person others rely on. You notice what other people need before they say it. You replay conversations, worry about disappointing people, and often make decisions based on how they'll affect everyone else before asking yourself what you want.

From the outside, your life may look like it's working. But inside, you might feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or simply tired of carrying so much for so long.

Maybe you've done therapy before. You understand your patterns. You know where they came from. But when you're stressed, overwhelmed, or in conflict, you still find yourself reacting in ways that don't feel like the person you want to be.

Over time, many of my clients notice they've become so focused on everyone else's needs, emotions, expectations, or approval that they've slowly lost touch with themselves. Not because they're weak or broken, but because their nervous system learned that staying connected to other people felt safer than staying connected to themselves. Somewhere along the way you’ve stopped trusting yourself. Or maybe you’re realizing maybe you never learned to trust yourself. And you feel stuck, lost, and unfulfilled.

You don't have to stop caring about the people you love. You just don't have to lose yourself while doing it.

That's the work we do together.

I'm Toni Richter, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, somatic trauma therapist, and yoga teacher. I help women better understand the patterns that have kept them stuck, build more safety in their nervous system, and reconnect with themselves in a way that feels genuine and lasting.

What a session might look like

I draw from Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and trauma-conscious yoga. Rather than only talking about what's happening, we'll also pay attention to what your body has been trying to communicate all along. These are trauma resolution models. We work with your sensations, younger shadow parts, we all have them, and emotional memories, rather than focusing solely on your thoughts. You know, more than most, that thinking your way out these patterns, beliefs, and challenges doesn’t work. If it did, well, you wouldn’t be here. Let’s try something new!

Together, we might:

Slow down and notice what sensations you’re experiencing and what this might be communicating to you.
Look at the impulses, urges, and movements your body wants to is trying to work through and what they might tell us.
Understand why you keep finding yourself in the same patterns or relationships.
Feel more confident trusting yourself instead of constantly second-guessing yourself.
Gently process experiences your nervous system is still carrying.
Learn to notice your own needs with the same care you've given everyone else.
Build relationships and boundaries that feel more honest, reciprocal, and sustainable.
Rediscover parts of yourself that have been buried beneath anxiety, perfectionism, shame, or years of trying to be who everyone else needed you to be.

I don't believe you're broken, and I'm not interested in fixing you. I believe your mind and body adapted in ways that helped you survive. Therapy becomes a place to understand those adaptations with compassion, create more choice, and reconnect with the person you've always been underneath them.

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My approach

I tend to work best with women who are looking for more than a place to vent and are okay with slowing things down and working with your body. For all of my professional intellectualizers, I’m with you, I’m one of you, and we will do this together.

Many of my clients have already done therapy and are ready for something different—something that includes the body, moves at a thoughtful pace, and creates change that extends beyond insight alone.

I won't promise quick fixes, because healing doesn't work that way. What I can offer is a warm, collaborative space where you don't have to perform, have all the answers, or keep holding everything together. We'll move at a pace your nervous system can tolerate while helping you reconnect with yourself and build a life that feels more like your own.

Don’t be surprised if I bring up how patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and other oppressive systems also contribute to our trauma responses and how we show up in pretty much every relationship and space. This isn’t to just say let’s throw in the towel and we are hopeless and helpless. This is to say there are systems bigger than us at play that we are consciously and unconsciously interacting with and once we become more aware of it and the cost it has on us and our community, we can choose something different. I believe, especially as women in this world, we need community more than ever.

Therapy isn't about caring less about the people you love. It's about finally including yourself in that same care.