You can be capable, competent, and passionate, yet feel like you aren’t doing enough.
You can lose your sense of yourself when you feel pulled in too many directions.
You can have a full life and still sense that something is missing.
You are looking for something more.
We work with people who…
Have been in therapy before or simply know they are looking for something that goes beyond talk therapy.
Appear capable and productive from the outside, but underneath it all they feel drained, overwhelmed, or uncertain.
Carry stress or anxiety in their bodies, feeling chronically tense, restless, or on edge even when life seems “fine.”
Are trying to make sense of trauma, loss, or change, and want to feel more grounded, present, and regulated.
Are very self-aware but get stuck in their heads and feel disconnected with themselves, their creativity, and their vitality.
Want more from their relationships, are tired of taking care of everyone else, and have a difficult time making time and space for themselves.
Imagine what it could be like to feel more like yourself, more at home in your body, and more fully alive.
Our work is active, relational, creative, and deeply personalized.
Moving through life differently doesn’t mean overhauling everything. It means finding more ease, more presence, more you in the life you’re already living. It means reconnecting to your creativity and vitality.
We help people reduce anxiety, heal from trauma, recover from burnout, and navigate the transitions that leave you wondering who you are or where you went.
We can help you get out of your head and work with what’s under the surface. The stuff you can’t “think your way out of.”
When you bring the body and mind together in therapy, it changes what’s possible.
You start making space for yourself. The tension you can’t let go of starts to ease. The thoughts constantly running in the background make less noise. You feel less overloaded, more grounded, more like yourself, and you start to feel what it’s like to actually be in your life.
How Change Happens in Somatic Therapy
Here’s what decades of neuroscience, trauma research, and clinical practice tell us:
Thinking about your problems differently isn’t enough.
Real change happens in your nervous system. When your body can relax and you can breathe easier. When your baseline is that you feel okay, safe, and engaged. When you recognize the cues of your stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, confusion, or joy and can respond to them effectively.
Talk therapy helps you understand your patterns. Somatic therapy helps you change them.
At Movement Matters, we integrate approaches that work with your whole self:
- Somatic | Body-Centered Psychotherapy
- Mindfulness & Body-Awareness
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Movement Psychotherapy
- Polyvagal-Informed Therapy
- Nervous System Regulation
- EMDR
- Trauma-focused Therapy
- Creative Arts Therapy
- Nature-based Therapy
Learn more about how somatic therapy works. »
Within your being, within your mind and your living body, lies a world of joy and power.
Within you lies a kingdom that you know little of.
The kingdom of fearless living, of sharing love, and the unfolding glory of your infinite being.
All this and more is yours.
-Ruth St. Denis
Your body and your nervous system are holding your stress, but they also hold the key to healing and growth.
Ready to get started?
Our Specialties…
Trauma, Complex Trauma & PTSD
Trauma is experienced in the body.
Long after traumatic events or situations have passed, it keeps showing up — in startle responses, hypervigilance, agitation, numbness, or a sense of feeling like a stranger in your own life.
Somatic therapy works directly with these responses, helping you feel safer, more regulated, and more at ease in yourself.
High-Functioning Anxiety
Anxiety is a nervous system state as much as a thought pattern, even when you don’t realize it.
Thoughts that keep you “on” all the time are often a protection against emotions and sensations.
Somatic therapy works with your whole experience, so that you can still be productive, but with more ease, calm, and satisfaction.
Depression
Depression and anxiety often overlap, one pushing you to be constantly on, the other leaving you feeling flat, disconnected, or like the color has drained out of life.
Somatic therapy works at the level of the body and nervous system, helping you find your way back to being present, engaged, and more fully yourself.
Burnout & Loss of Self
Burnout isn’t just tiredness; it’s running on empty over time.
Your brain and body signals get lost, and it becomes hard to know what you need or even who you are underneath it all.
Somatic therapy helps you restore balance, reconnect to yourself, and rediscover a sense of zest and vitality.
Life Transitions
When you’re facing a transition — a relationship ending, a change in school or work, a new family structure, a decision to change something big about your life, or even just the sense of time passing — it can feel disorienting.
Somatic therapy can help you feel grounded and centered, even if you don’t yet know where you’re headed or how to get there.
Self-Worth & Embodiment
We relate to ourselves through our bodies.
The way we sit, stand, move, even where we look or how we speak all express something about how we feel about ourselves.
Somatic therapy helps you listen to those signals with curiosity and self-compassion, so that you can feel more at home in yourself.
Therapy for Women
Anxiety, burnout, and chronic stress often show up differently in women, who also carry the weight of expectations, the emotional labor of relationships, and the pressure of holding it all together.
Somatic therapy helps you reclaim yourself — creating space to breathe, to be yourself, and to build a life filled with joy and connection.
Therapy for Men
There are so many ideas about how men are “supposed to” handle things — think your way through problems, stay in control, keep it together.
There’s a cost to that, and it often leaves you feeling tense, pressured, and worn out.
Somatic therapy offers a way to go deeper than problem-solving, and helps you build a life that feels more like your own.
Relationships & Patterns
We form relational patterns through non-verbal interactions long before we learn to speak.
We develop maps that we follow in relationships, often without even realizing it, which is why the same patterns keep showing up.
Somatic therapy helps you notice what’s happening beneath the surface and build more satisfying relationships.
At Movement Matters, we address relational patterns through both individual and couples therapy.
Chronic Pain & Stress
Chronic pain and stress-related symptoms add a constant layer of distraction and discomfort.
Even when you’re good at pushing through, pain demands your attention and drains your energy.
Somatic therapy can help you change your relationship to your body, find more self-compassion, and lessen the extra suffering that comes from struggling.
Learn more about working with chronic pain and stress-related symptoms. »
Creativity & the Arts
Creativity lives in the body.
It shows up in the urge to make something, the willingness to be messy, the energy that fuels ideas, the sense that something new is possible. When life gets in the way, we can lose connection to our creative and artistic drive.
Somatic therapy can help you find your way back to the creative part of you that can take risks, play, and go somewhere new.
If something here resonates, we’d love to talk with you about whether we’re a good fit.
Meet Our Therapists
Movement Matters was founded by Annabelle Coote, licensed mental health counselor, certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, and certified dance/movement therapist. We are an integrative somatic therapy practice that welcomes clients of all identities, backgrounds, and orientations.
Our therapists all have in-depth training in somatic therapy methods. Our work is grounded in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, movement psychotherapy, and contemplative psychology, and we draw from many body-centered and experiential approaches. We love the work we do, and we are continually expanding our knowledge and proficiency.
Annabelle Coote, Founder & Director
Arin Willey, Therapist
Monica Thomas, Therapist
Jesse Carter, Therapist
Imagine What Change Could Feel Like
What if you could reconnect with yourself – with vitality, creativity, and sense of direction?
What if you could feel at home in your body – having both more calm and more energy?
What if relationships brought joy and connection instead of depletion?
What if you could show up for yourself the way you care for everyone else?
What if you felt free to express yourself, be more authentic, more you?
What if you had the confidence to pursue your dreams and desires?
