Somatic Therapy in Seattle for Adults & Couples
When talk therapy has taken you as far as it can, somatic therapy is often the gentle next step — healing trauma through the body while you feel safe, held, and connected to your future self. Work with a licensed somatic therapist from anywhere in Washington State.
Accepting Aetna, United Healthcare, and private pay · Superbills provided
When talk therapy isn't enough
You've done the work — and yet the same patterns keep circling back.
You understand your history. You can name the pattern. But your body still tightens in the same way, your nervous system still braces, and peace feels just out of reach. That's because trauma doesn't only live in the story — it lives in the body. Somatic therapy meets you where the story runs out.
What is Somatic Therapy?
A gentle way of healing trauma.
Instead of reliving the trauma, you experience body sensations and emotions while also feeling the healing space at the same time.
If trauma memories arise, this is observed through parts work and by feeling the connection of your future self — so you are never alone with what surfaces.
The work is slow, spacious, and titrated to your capacity. Your nervous system leads; the therapist follows.
What clients work toward
Room to breathe again — in your body, mind, and relationships
Calmer nervous system
Move from bracing to settled — even when life is loud.
Relief from anxiety
Meet anxious activation with body-based tools that actually reach it.
Lift from depression
Reconnect to aliveness, meaning, and your own inner light.
Gentle trauma resolution
Metabolize what talk therapy couldn't — without re-traumatizing.
Deeper couple connection
Rebuild secure attachment and repair after rupture.
Secure attachment
Feel steady in yourself and safe in relationship again.
Curious if we're a good fit?
Book a free 30-minute client fit consultation — no pressure, just a conversation.
The modality stack
Four modalities, woven together for you
I don't pick one method and force your experience through it. These approaches move together, responsive to what your body and story ask for in each session.
Attachment Theory
The relational foundation. In couples work especially, we look at the bonds you learned in early life and how they show up between you now — creating conditions for secure connection.
Somatic Therapy
Following the body's language — breath, sensation, impulse — to release what the nervous system has been holding, gently and at your pace.
Bioenergetics
Movement, grounding, and expression to help stuck energy complete. A safe way to work with what words alone can't reach.
Parts Work
Rather than being overtaken by a wounded part, you learn to observe and befriend it — with your future self standing beside you, so you're never alone with hard material.
Couples therapy in Seattle
Attachment-based couples therapy for Seattle-area partners
Most couples don't have a communication problem — they have an attachment problem. When one partner reaches and the other pulls away, the argument is rarely about the dishes. It's two nervous systems trying to feel safe at the same time.
My couples work is grounded in attachment theory and a Circle of Security certification in attachment assessment and treatment planning. We slow the cycle down, name what each of you is protecting, and practice repair in real time — so rupture stops being the end of the conversation.
- Break the pursue–withdraw cycle before it escalates
- Rebuild trust and secure connection after rupture or betrayal
- Learn body-based co-regulation you can use mid-conflict
- Understand each other's attachment history without blame
Couples sessions are telehealth for Washington residents — Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Olympia, Spokane, and everywhere in between.
Book a Free Couples Fit ConsultationWho I work with
Adults and couples in Washington ready to realize their full healing potential
Sessions are telehealth-only for Washington State residents. I welcome clients who have done meaningful talk therapy and sense there is deeper, quieter healing still available — and couples wanting to move from reactivity to a more secure, connected bond.
If you've been searching for a somatic therapist near me in the Seattle area, telehealth means you're not limited to who happens to have an office nearby. I see clients across Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Tacoma, Everett, Olympia, Spokane, and every other community in Washington State.
Where I practice
Somatic therapy for Seattle — wherever you are in Washington
This is a fully telehealth practice. Sessions happen over secure, HIPAA-compliant video, and I'm licensed to work with any resident of Washington State. My mailing address is in Seattle (1455 Northwest Leary Way, Suite 400), but sessions are always online — there is no waiting room and no office to drive to.
For somatic work, that's a genuine advantage rather than a compromise. You settle into your own space, with your own blanket, your own chair, your own quiet — the environment your nervous system already recognizes as safe. And when a session opens something tender, you don't have to gather yourself up and merge onto I-5. You get to stay put and let it land.
Serving clients across Washington
- Seattle
- Bellevue
- Kirkland
- Redmond
- Tacoma
- Everett
- Olympia
- Bellingham
- Spokane
- Vancouver, WA
Plus the smaller, rural, and island communities across the state where a somatic therapist simply isn't available locally — Whidbey, the San Juans, the Peninsula, Eastern Washington.
About Bethany
Bethany Latimer, LMHC
23+ years in private practice and community mental health.
I've spent more than two decades sitting with people in the tender places — as a family attachment therapist in private practice, as a program manager building counseling teams, and as a therapist in community mental health. That range shows up in the room: I've worked with crisis and with quiet, subtle unwinding.
My somatic work is grounded in a Circle of Security certification in attachment assessment and treatment planning, and a 3+ year intensive training with Kim Lincoln at Terrain of Essence — a mind, body & soul path rooted in the Diamond Approach — plus a 6-month trauma healing training in bioenergetics and somatic processing.
My promise to you: gentle pace, deep presence, and a space where your body is trusted as the healer it already is.
Credentials & training
The training behind the work
License
- Washington Licensed Mental Health Counselor #LH00010882 (Active)
Education
- M.A. Counseling Psychology — Saint Martin's College
- Doctoral coursework & comprehensive exams — Capella University
- B.A. Psychology — University of Wisconsin, Madison
Certifications & Intensive Trainings
- Certified in Circle of Security Attachment Assessment & Treatment Planning — Marycliff Institute
- 3+ year Mind, Body & Soul Training (Diamond Approach) — Kim Lincoln, Terrain of Essence
- 6-month Trauma Healing Training (bioenergetics & somatic processing) — Terrain of Essence
- 1-year training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy — Center for Object Relations, Seattle
Selected Experience
- Remote Private Practice — Adults & Couples (2020–present)
- Counseling Program Manager — Commonwealth Catholic Charities
- Adult Therapist — Behavioral Health Resources, Olympia WA
- Family Attachment Therapist & practice owner — South Sound Attachment Clinic (12 years)
Is this a fit?
Honest about who this work suits
Fit matters more than credentials. If the right-hand column describes you, I'd rather say so now and point you somewhere better.
This is likely a good fit if…
- You've done meaningful talk therapy and sense there's deeper, quieter healing still available
- You want a slow, gentle pace rather than a protocol with homework every week
- You're a Washington resident and can find a private space for video sessions
- You're open to noticing what's happening in your body, even if you've never done body-based work
- You're a couple willing to look at the cycle between you, not just at each other
I'm probably not the right therapist if…
- You're in active crisis or need urgent psychiatric care — you deserve a higher level of support first
- You're looking for a formal evaluation, custody report, or court documentation
- You want rapid symptom reduction in two or three sessions; this work is slower than that
- You live outside Washington State — 1:1 therapy is limited to WA residents by license
What a session feels like
Slow, spacious, and led by your body
1. Grounding & orienting
We begin by settling into your body and the space. Nothing is forced — we're building a felt sense of safety first.
2. Following sensation with parts work
Whatever arises — sensation, emotion, memory, a younger part — is met with curiosity. You stay resourced; your future self stays close.
3. Integration
We close by anchoring what shifted, so the nervous system learns the new possibility and carries it into your week.
Investment & insurance
Straightforward and transparent
In-network
Aetna and United Healthcare accepted.
Private pay
Warmly welcomed. $97.50 per 45-minute session · $130.00 per 60-minute session.
Superbills
Provided each month for out-of-network insurance reimbursement.
HIPAA-compliant, confidential care
Sessions are conducted over a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted telehealth platform. Your records are kept confidential in accordance with HIPAA and Washington State law, and you'll receive a Notice of Privacy Practices at intake. If you have questions about privacy before we begin, we'll talk through them on your free fit call.
What to expect
A simple, unhurried path in
1. Free 30-min fit call
We meet, you share what's bringing you here, and we see if working together feels right.
2. Intake & personalized plan
A deeper first session to map your history, goals, and nervous system, so care is tailored to you.
3. Ongoing telehealth sessions
Weekly sessions to begin, then moving to biweekly as you build capacity and integration deepens.
Common questions
Good questions to ask before starting
Ready for the next step?
Book a free 30-minute client fit consultation. We'll talk about what's bringing you here, how I work, and whether we're a good match.