Individual Somatic Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety & Relational Wounds in Marietta, GA
Individual Therapy
This is where your nervous system finally gets to rest.
For a lot of people who find their way here, therapy isn't new. They've sat across from good clinicians, done real work, made genuine progress. And yet something remains. A tightness that won't soften. A reaction that keeps showing up no matter how much they understand it.
That's not a failure of effort. It's a sign the healing needs to go somewhere words haven't been able to reach yet.
Individual therapy at Dr. CB Therapy works at that deeper layer. Using Somatic Experiencing as the primary framework, sessions follow what your nervous system is actually doing, not just what your mind is reporting. Slowly, carefully, your body gets to finish what it started.
Does this sound familiar?
You've learned to live above the neck.
Maybe emotions arrive as thoughts rather than feelings. Maybe you notice tension only when it becomes pain. Maybe you go through whole days disconnected from what's actually happening inside you, not because you don't care, but because somewhere along the way your body learned that checking in wasn't safe.
That's not a lack of self-awareness. That's a nervous system that learned to protect you by keeping you out.
The work isn't to force yourself back in. It's to create enough safety that your body finally feels like somewhere worth returning to.
"The body is the entry point. It is where trauma is held and where healing begins." — Pat Ogden
The Approach
Healing isn't something you think your way through. It's something your body leads you through.
Trauma doesn't live in the story. It lives in the places that still brace, still hold, still wait for something that already passed. The nervous system learned to protect you the only way it knew how. And it's still doing that job, even when you no longer need it to.
Somatic Experiencing doesn't ask you to relive what happened or push through it. It follows what your body is already doing and creates the conditions for it to finally do something different.
What a session actually feels like:
Sessions are slower than anything you've probably experienced in therapy before. That slowness is intentional. Rather than moving through content, the work tracks what's happening in your body right now: a tightening in your chest, a held breath, a subtle impulse to move or pull back. These aren't distractions from the work. They are the work.
Dr. Baker works at the edge of what your system can actually hold, where there's just enough safety for something new to happen without overwhelming what's already there. Nothing is forced. Nothing is rushed. Your nervous system sets the pace.
Over time something shifts. Not because you pushed hard enough. Because your body finally got what it needed to settle.
Areas of focus
Dr. CB specializes in working with adults navigating:
Complex trauma
for those whose wounds didn't come from one single event but from years of chronic stress, relational harm, or experiences that accumulated quietly, shaping the nervous system long before there was language for what was happening
PTSD
for those whose nervous system got locked into a moment that already passed, still bracing, still scanning, still waiting for something the body hasn't been told is over
Betrayal trauma
for partners and spouses whose sense of safety, reality, and trust was shattered by someone they loved
Sex addiction recovery
for individuals ready to understand what's driving the behavior and do the deeper nervous system work that lasting change requires
Spiritual abuse and religious trauma
for those who were harmed in the places that were supposed to feel most safe
Adoption and identity
for adoptees and adoptive families carrying the body-level imprint of early separation and loss
Anxiety and depression
for those whose nervous system has been running on high alert or complete shutdown for so long it feels like just who they are
Codependency and attachment wounds
for those who learned early that love required losing themselves
Narcissistic abuse and recovery
for those whose sense of self was slowly eroded by a relationship that told them their perception of reality couldn't be trusted
WHY WORK WITH DR. CB
What individual therapy here actually gives you
A body you can finally trust again. Not because the hard things didn't happen, but because your nervous system slowly learns it doesn't have to brace for them anymore, with a goal of becoming less reactive, feeling more capacity, and experiencing a steadiness that starts to feel like a new baseline.
A pace your system can actually work with. Nothing here is forced. Sessions stay inside what your nervous system can genuinely hold, because real integration only happens at the edge of safety, not past it.
A clinician who has done this work herself. Dr. Baker's own experience with burnout, complex trauma, and nervous system dysregulation isn't a footnote. It's the reason she understands from the inside what it actually takes to come back to yourself. That changes what's possible in the room.
Work that follows your system, not a script. Somatic Experiencing is the foundation. Everything else follows what your nervous system actually needs as the work unfolds. Sessions are never run from a protocol. They're run from presence.
Questions
What people often wonder before reaching
out about individual therapy.
I've been in therapy before and it helped, but I still feel stuck. Is SE different?
Most therapy works at the level of thought and story. SE works at the level of the nervous system. If you've done meaningful work in therapy and still feel the effects of trauma in your body, the tension, the reactivity, the numbness, that's not a sign that therapy failed. It's a sign that there's a layer the words couldn't reach. SE addresses that layer directly. It doesn't replace the work you've already done. It picks up where talking left off.
What actually happens in a somatic therapy session? Do I have to move or do exercises?
SE sessions look a lot like regular therapy from the outside, two people sitting together, talking. The difference is in what gets tracked. Rather than moving through the content of what happened, the work follows what's happening in your body right now. A shift in your breath. A tightening in your chest. A subtle impulse to move or pull back.
Sometimes the work does involve movement or somatic practices. When it does, nothing is performed alone or assigned as homework to get through. We do it together, always at your pace, always with your full awareness and consent. The goal is never to push your body into something. It's to follow what your body is already reaching toward.
How long does individual therapy typically take?
There's no honest universal answer to this. Nervous system healing isn't linear and it doesn't follow a schedule. What most people find is that they begin to notice shifts in their body and their responses relatively early in the work, and that capacity continues to build over time. The goal is never to keep you in therapy longer than you need. It's to help your system build enough capacity that eventually you don't need it anymore.
Do I need to talk about my trauma in detail?
No. This is one of the things that surprises people most about SE. You don't need to retell the story for your nervous system to heal. In fact, retelling it in detail can sometimes reactivate the very responses we're trying to help settle. The work follows what your body is doing right now, not what your mind remembers. Some clients talk very little about what happened. Others talk quite a bit. Your system leads and we follow.
Is online therapy as effective as in-person for this kind of work?
Somatic work does depend on presence and attunement, which is why this question is worth taking seriously rather than just reassuring you with a quick yes. What the research and clinical experience both show is that online SE can be genuinely effective when the therapeutic relationship is strong and both people are fully present. Some clients find they settle more easily in their own environment. Others find the screen creates a distance that affects the work. The honest answer is it depends on you, and the best way to find out is to try a session and see how your system responds.
What does it cost and do you take insurance?
Individual therapy sessions are $220 per hour. Dr. CB Therapy is not in-network with insurance providers and sessions are private pay. Some clients are able to submit for out-of-network reimbursement through their insurance plan. It's worth calling your provider to ask about your out-of-network benefits before your first session.
Ready to Begin
Your nervous system has been
waiting for this
You don't have to have everything figured out before you reach out, that's what the consultation is for.