I have available slots Monday-Thursday
$140 for individuals, $160 for couples
Genevieve Layman
About me
I’m a heart-centered, trauma-informed therapist who believes healing happens through both understanding and experience. Drawing from Somatic Experiencing, neurobiology, relational therapy, and mindfulness, I help adults navigate anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, and life transitions. My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the belief that your body and nervous system hold valuable information about what you need to heal, grow, and move toward greater ease.
I am also a Registered Horticultural Therapist, which means I value the healing potential of nature and plants, and sometimes bring them directly into my therapeutic work. I believe our relationship with the natural world can offer meaningful opportunities for resourcing, grounding, connection, and growth. These experiences are deeply connected to nervous system work, supporting our capacity to orient to the present moment, settle into our experience, and discover new pathways toward wellness. When we place our attention on the natural world and gently notice all there is to be noticed—the life, colors, textures, sounds, movement, and rhythms around us—we practice coming out of habitual patterns of attention and reconnecting with what is happening here and now. In this way, nature can become a powerful resource for cultivating presence, expanding nervous system capacity, and creating space for new possibilities.
What does therapy look like
Somatic therapy is an approach that recognizes that our experiences are held not only in our thoughts and emotions, but also in our bodies and nervous systems. Rather than focusing solely on talking about what happened, somatic work gently brings awareness to sensations, impulses, emotions, and patterns of activation in the body. Through this process, we can begin to understand how the nervous system has learned to respond to stress, relationships, and experiences of protection or threat. For those healing from trauma, this can create a pathway toward integrating experiences that may still be held as patterns of activation, avoidance, or protection in the body. By creating new experiences of safety, choice, and connection, somatic therapy can support neurobiological change—helping the nervous system develop greater flexibility and capacity.
Increased nervous system capacity means having more freedom to respond rather than automatically reacting from old patterns of protection. Through somatic work, we can begin to notice where we become “hooked” into familiar cycles of anxiety, reactivity, shutdown, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or disconnection. As the nervous system develops greater capacity for sensation, emotion, uncertainty, and connection, these patterns can become less automatic. We gain more choice, flexibility, and freedom—what was once threatening can begin to feel less scary. As protective patterns soften, there is more room for the authentic self to emerge, bringing greater freedom to move through the world with connection, choice, and aliveness.