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.
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.
Who 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.
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)
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. Fees discussed on your free 30-min fit call.
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.