What if what you’re carrying doesn’t just live in your mind, but in your body as well?
You’ve been working to make changes, and have tried therapy before. You understand your patterns. You have a sense of where it all began, but you’re still carrying the weight and feel stuck. This practice works at the level where that changes, by incorporating the nervous system, the body, and the parts of you that insight alone hasn’t reached.
25 minutes, no paperwork required, and credited toward your intake if we go on to work together.Not ready to meet? Send a note, and I’ll reply personally to every inquiry within two business days.
Traditional talk therapy works with the parts of you that can communicate and understand intellectually, via words and thoughtful dialogue. My body-oriented, integrated approach to therapy addresses everything else too: the nervous system’s held patterns, the places where the body still braces, the responses that persist even when you understand why they’re there, the relational patterns that repeat even when you can see them clearly, and the intelligence that emerges from the unconscious when given space to move.
The work draws on psychodynamic psychotherapy, Dance/Movement Therapy, and somatic approaches to engage all of it at once: thought, emotion, sensation, the imagination, and the unknown. Sessions are led by the material you bring and are supported with skillful clinical direction that comes from my training in multiple disciplines across more than two decades of practice.
You don’t have to identify as a trauma survivor to benefit from this way of doing therapy. You only need to be ready to work at depth, with the desire to see yourself more clearly and move forward into a healthier, more enjoyable life, with greater emotional range and more genuine relationships with yourself and others.
Learn About the Approach →You value making progress, and sense that it’s time to work on yourself in a new way.
- – You understand your patterns and habits, the triggers that throw you off balance, and the history that led you here, but that understanding hasn’t changed the way you actually respond to stress and life’s challenges.
- – You’re living with anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, or the aftereffects of trauma, and what you need isn’t more analysis. It’s a way to actually move through what you’re carrying.
- – You’re navigating a significant life transition, a relationship that needs a tune up, or a chronic illness that has affected your sense of self, and you want a therapist who will both listen and provide actionable feedback.
- – You’re looking for a therapist who meets you as an intellectual equal, who won’t deflect your questions with generalized therapy-speak, and who brings real clinical depth and somatic skill to guiding you toward lasting change.
- – You want to understand yourself more fully, expand your emotional range, and improve the quality of your relationships, including the one you have with yourself.
- – You don’t necessarily identify as traumatized, but you’re drawn to depth work and are curious about experiential modalities: an approach that takes the whole person into consideration, including the body, the unconscious, and the parts of your experience that words alone haven’t touched.
“Rachel Fernbach has the depth and currency of clinical expertise that marks her professional excellence. She has a foundation of experience and the fresh sensitivity to see each person she works with clear eyes and compassion. She is a high quality practitioner.”JL, PhD · Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, Boston
Ready to begin?
A 25-minute Discovery Session is $180, credited toward your intake if we go on to work together.
Not ready to book? Send a note with your questions, and I’ll reply personally within two business days.