Services - Somatic Resonance
Release the pattern. Step into who you're becoming.
Your body holds the blueprint of your past. Until that blueprint shifts, you'll keep recreating the same patterns — even as your mind insists things are different.
Individual sessions $225 · 60–75 minutes · Evanston & Chicago
What This Is
Healing that lives in the body
Trauma doesn't live only in memory. It lives in the nervous system, the muscles, the breath — the places your mind can understand but can't reach on its own.
Somatic Resonance Therapy works at the intersection of somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and relational safety. Through carefully attuned touch and the subtle influence of interpersonal neurobiology, your system is offered something it may never have had: a co-regulating presence so safe that frozen patterns can begin to thaw.
This isn't technique-focused therapy. It's transformation work — the kind where you don't just understand what happened, but you actually become free of it.
Restore Safety
Your nervous system finally gets permission to relax from its protective stance.
Release Held Patterns
Patterns that have shaped your choices, limits, and relationships begin to dissolve.
Access Coherence
The elevated, clear state where genuine transformation becomes possible.
Emergence
The version of you that was always possible becomes your natural way of being.
The Foundation
Built on decades of integrated work
Somatic Resonance Therapy is built on the touch-based trauma work of Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell — a model that treats the nervous system, not just the story, as the site of healing.
From that foundation, the work integrates EMDR, Internal Family Systems, hypnotherapy, and breathwork to address trauma at the level of memory, parts, subconscious belief, and physiology.
Layered on top is a current of energy work — Reiki, Pranic Healing, and shamanic craniosacral therapy — that meets what talk and touch alone can't always reach.
Touch-Based Trauma Work
The Kain & Terrell model of working directly with the nervous system through attuned touch.
EMDR & IFS
Individual coaching sessions at Weeks 3 and 6 the tender midpoints of the journey for personalized depth work tailored to what's alive for you.
Hypnotherapy & Breathwork
Reaching subconscious belief and physiology directly, not just through talk.
Energy Work
Reiki, Pranic Healing, and shamanic craniosacral therapy — meeting what talk and touch alone can't always reach.
The Journey
Body, Self, Spirit, Community
The work moves through four stages, each building on the last.
Body
Releasing the old patterns and beliefs that trauma has lodged in the nervous system, before any of it is fully conscious.
Self
Integrating what's been released, and learning to recognize and trust your own authenticity rather than old survival strategies.
Spirit
Connecting to a deeper sense of who you are beneath the personality and the coping, and orienting toward a purpose that's actually yours.
Community
Taking what's been healed and integrated back into relationship, where it's tested and lived out with others.
Is This for You?
Good fit for individuals who…
Increased differentiation — the ability to make decisions from a solid sense of self, rather than from codependence or the need for approval
Distress tolerance — staying present with uncomfortable sensations and hard conversations, and leaning into growth instead of away from it
A stronger, more embodied connection to your own sense of self
Emotional attunement that improves your relationships — intimate, friendships, and professional
The capacity to harness the full power of your emotions, rather than being run by them or numbing them out
Connection to a deeper truth, both within yourself and in relation to something larger than yourself
Resolution of trauma and the mistaken core beliefs it leaves behind
The Real Work
Beneath the protective layers we build over a lifetime
The anxiety, the numbness, the compulsions, the self-doubt — there is a self that is whole, alive, and capable of real connection. This work creates the conditions for that self to emerge.
Mind understands.
Body heals.
Insight alone isn't enough. The mind can understand what happened — but your body is still living the old pattern. We work with both.
Stored energy finally moves
From within the safety of the session, frozen patterns begin to thaw and the body returns — gradually and organically — toward balance.
Freedom from old patterns
What we identify as our "personality" or "issues" are often nervous system adaptations. When those experiences complete, the patterns built around them dissolve.
The Process
How a session works
Sessions are 60–75 minutes. Many clients notice meaningful shifts after just a few sessions — though the depth and pace are unique to each person.
Grounding & Connection
We begin with presence — checking in with where you are today, what's present in your body, and what you're bringing into the session.
Somatic Exploration
Through attuned touch and careful attention to your nervous system, we work with what's held in the body — gently, at exactly the pace that's right for you.
Integration
We close with integration — letting the work settle, reflecting on what shifted, and grounding the change so it becomes part of how you move through the world.
Is This for You?
This work is for you if…
You've done the therapy, the coaching, the inner work — and something still feels stuck in your body
You carry chronic tension, hypervigilance, numbness, or a persistent sense of bracing
You're drawn to approaches that work with the body as the source of change, not just the mind
You're ready to move beyond understanding your story to actually becoming free of it
You know there's more possible — and you're ready to step into it
Your old patterns no longer serve who you're becoming
What Changes
What you'll experience
As your nervous system shifts, you'll notice changes that are felt — not just understood.
A felt sense of genuine safety — not just the idea of it, but something your body actually knows
Freedom from patterns that have run you for years
Clarity and presence you haven't felt in a long time
Access to elevated emotional states where you can see more possibilities
The ability to respond to life from choice, not from habit
A sense of becoming — stepping into a greater version of yourself
$225
per session · 60–75 minutes
This is premium transformation work. Each session is focused somatic work designed to create real, measurable shifts in how your nervous system relates to itself and the world.
Steve Thorpe, LCPC
Licensed Psychotherapist · Certified EMDR · IFS Practitioner · Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist · Somatic Touch (Kain & Terrell Trained)
I've spent decades studying what actually creates change — not just what helps people feel temporarily better, but what fundamentally rewires how a person moves through the world. Somatic Resonance Therapy is the synthesis of that work: the most powerful healing I know how to offer.
"Steve's ability to hold space while gently challenging me to see things differently changed my life. He doesn't just listen — he sees you."
Client, Living Well Coaching
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