Trauma Therapy in Bozeman, Montana

Somatic Experiencing® for Nervous System Healing and Emotional Resilience

At Sub Rosa, we offer mental health and trauma therapy grounded in Somatic Experiencing — a body-based approach that helps you heal from overwhelming experiences, restore emotional balance, and feel more at home in your body and life.

When you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, chronic stress, or the effects of childhood or shock trauma, Somatic Experiencing offers a gentle and effective path toward regulation and greater resilience.

What is Somatic Experiencing (SE)?

Somatic Experiencing is a second wave somatic trauma therapy that works with the body’s natural survival responses — like fight, flight, or freeze — to help resolve trauma at the nervous system level.

Many trauma symptoms don’t come from the event itself, but from how the nervous system stays stuck in survival mode long afterward. SE helps unwind those patterns by guiding you to notice, release, and reorganize physical tension and emotional overwhelm.

Grounded in neuroscience and trauma research, this mental health approach is designed to:

  • Reduce anxiety, panic, and hypervigilance

  • Ease dissociation and emotional numbness

  • Address symptoms of PTSD and developmental trauma

  • Support recovery from chronic stress, burnout, and overwhelm

Why Somatic Therapy?

Trauma can disconnect us from our bodies, our relationships, our sense of safety, and especially from the present moment. Somatic trauma therapy gently restores those connections.

In sessions, you’ll work with a trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)—a specialized therapist—to:

  • Notice sensations linked to fear, shutdown, or grief

  • Build awareness of grounding, safety, and capacity

  • Develop tools to regulate your nervous system in real time

  • Reconnect with emotions without being flooded or dissociated

This body-centered process empowers your system to complete unfinished stress responses, restoring self-protection, vitality, and trust.

Who Benefits from Trauma Therapy in Bozeman?

Somatic Experiencing can help if you’re struggling with:

  • Childhood trauma or emotional neglect

  • PTSD or complex PTSD

  • Anxiety or panic

  • Depression rooted in freeze or shutdown

  • Relationship stress and attachment wounds

  • Coping strategies like dissociation, avoidance, or addiction

Start Trauma Therapy at Sub Rosa

You don’t need to re-tell every detail of your trauma to begin healing.
Through gentle attention to your body’s signals, Somatic Experiencing helps restore balance and a deeper sense of self.