Somatic Therapy | Yoga and Sound Baths in Atlanta | GA
Being the anchor for everyone around you means absorbing what others cannot carry. It is a role that is often assigned to women of color before they are old enough to consent to it, and it stays. Power Through Process is a somatic therapy and sound healing practice built around what that role costs and what becomes possible when the body is finally given permission to release it. I work with women who are done performing strength for audiences that have never asked whether they are okay. Piedmont Park anchors the city's green center, its long meadow drawing everyone from morning joggers to weekend families to the kind of festivals that remind Atlanta what it is capable of when it gathers.
The BeltLine traces a ring around the inner neighborhoods, Inman Park to the east, Old Fourth Ward to the northeast, Midtown threading through the middle. Ponce City Market marks the axis point where the old Sears building became something new. Virginia Highland sits above Ponce de Leon Ave with its North Highland Ave restaurants and independent shops. Emory University occupies the Druid Hills neighborhood just east, while Georgia Tech anchors the north end of downtown. The Sweet Auburn Historic District along Auburn Ave holds the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. and the memory of what Black Atlanta built when it had to build for itself. The West End and Vine City carry that same history westward, and the entire city sits at the convergence of those two stories: what was built and what was taken.
Atlanta's Black professional women carry something specific: the pride of being in the city that represents Black American achievement, and the private exhaustion of what that representation requires. Somatic therapy in Atlanta meets that particular combination, the cultural weight and the personal one, without asking anyone to separate them. My practice holds both and works with both, in the body where they both actually live.
How it works
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Start where you are—not where you think you “should” be
Most therapeutic approaches start with the question of why. Why do you feel this way? Where does this pattern come from? Somatic therapy starts one level below that, with the question of what. What is the body doing right now? What is the quality of the breath? What activates and where? Starting here produces a different kind of access to what needs healing, one that does not depend on having the right words for it.
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No scripts. Just what your body needs
The first step into this work is simply a conversation between two people seeing whether there is something genuine here. No pressure to arrive prepared. No requirement that everything be articulated clearly. Just a real exchange about where someone is and whether this practice has something to offer. The path forward shapes itself from that exchange.
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Where science meets soul
What somatic therapy, sound healing, and yoga build in the nervous system does not require ongoing reinforcement to sustain. Clients describe a quality of change that feels less like maintenance and more like becoming, as if the person they were working toward has simply arrived. The baseline shifts. The default softens. The range of what is possible expands.
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For women who have been anchoring others for years, the act of turning attention toward their own inner experience can feel foreign or even selfish at first. Somatic therapy creates the conditions for that attention to feel safe. Sessions are oriented entirely toward what the client is experiencing, and the quality of that orientation is itself healing. Over the course of the work, clients begin to develop what might be called an internal compass, a growing ability to know what they feel, trust that knowing, and respond to it. The emotional numbness that so many anchoring women describe as their steady state begins to lift, not all at once but in layers, each layer revealing something more real underneath. Sessions are offered virtually, available from any private space in Atlanta or beyond. The depth of the work translates fully across the virtual medium.
Atlanta moves fast. The city is building, expanding, asserting itself, and the people in it move with that energy, including the women who already carry too much. Yoga and sound baths are practices that ask for a different kind of participation: not doing, not producing, not even trying to feel better. Just being present with what the body offers when it is finally given time. Sound healing sessions use the vibrational quality of healing instruments to support a shift in the nervous system's state that arrives without effort or intention. The body knows what to do with what is offered. Yoga sessions build on that with slow, breath-centered movement that teaches the body to experience its own presence as nourishment rather than just function. Both offerings are available virtually and are designed to be genuinely accessible for women encountering them for the first time.
Women who have been everyone's anchor often find that intimacy is simultaneously what they crave most and what they have the least access to. The role of the strong one carries a specific kind of loneliness: being deeply trusted and never fully known. Relational Gestalt therapy works with the experience of being known, in the actual relationship of the session itself. This approach attends to what is alive between practitioner and client in real time. Not the history of relationships but the live quality of this one. What happens in the body when genuine attention is offered? What arises when a need is expressed without mitigation? These experiences in the session become new possibilities in the world outside it. Clients often describe this as the first therapeutic relationship in which they have felt genuinely seen rather than professionally attended to. That distinction is the work.
The nervous system of a woman who has been in anchoring mode for years has a specific signature: chronically ready, frequently depleted, and unable to access rest even when the external conditions for it are present. Nervous system regulation work addresses that pattern not by explaining it but by giving the body new experiences that slowly expand what is available. Sessions build what researchers call the capacity for settling, the nervous system's ability to complete an activation cycle and return to baseline rather than remaining elevated. Clients find that this capacity begins to show up in daily life, not as a technique they apply but as something the body simply does because it has learned that it can. For women in Atlanta whose nervous systems have been shaped by the specific combination of personal ambition, cultural expectation, and the ongoing labor of navigating race in America, this work addresses all three at once.
Atlanta carries history in its soil. The women who live here carry their own histories in their bodies. Somatic trauma therapy holds space for both, for the personal experience and the larger inheritance, without requiring that either be fully understood before it can be addressed. Sessions attend to the body's held experience with care and without agenda. Nothing is forced toward resolution. The work follows the nervous system's own pace, creating safety incrementally and allowing release to happen when the conditions are genuinely ready for it. What clients find through this work is often more comprehensive than they expected. The body's wisdom about what needs attention turns out to include dimensions that the mind had not identified as part of the problem.
In a city that defines itself through ambition and momentum, anxiety can present as an asset for a long time before it becomes a problem. The readiness that looks like drive. The vigilance that looks like thoroughness. The inability to rest that looks like dedication. Sound meditation addresses the nervous system underneath all of those framings. During sessions, vibrational resonance from healing instruments creates a physiological shift that does not depend on the mind's willingness to let go. The body releases before the analytical mind has had time to assess whether it is safe to do so. For women who have spent years in their heads, this is a distinctive kind of relief. Sessions are accessible virtually from any private space in Atlanta or elsewhere.
Atlanta has a particular meaning for Black Americans, a city that represents something about what is possible. Living inside that meaning, embodying it, contributing to it while also navigating everything that the city's reality still asks of Black women, is a specific and complex experience. Therapy for Black women in my practice holds that complexity without flattening it. My framework is anti-oppressive and decolonizing, which means it starts from the understanding that the challenges Black women navigate are systemic and cultural as well as personal. The work does not separate those dimensions. It holds them together and attends to the place where they meet in the body. Black women in Atlanta come to this practice to be fully witnessed. Not the part of them that is succeeding and representing. All of them. The work is designed to hold that fullness.
A city that never stops building invites a kind of movement that is always purposeful. Somatic yoga interrupts that invitation with its own, which has nothing to do with purpose. Sessions are built around the practice of moving slowly enough to actually feel what movement produces in the body, without the overlay of achievement or progress. Clients are guided through gentle sequences that pause at the edges of sensation, where the breath changes and the body communicates something specific. That communication is the practice. Following it, attending to it, allowing it to be the guide. Over time, this builds a quality of physical self-knowledge that is entirely different from body awareness cultivated through performance-oriented practices. Somatic yoga is offered virtually and is available to women regardless of their relationship to yoga or movement.
Atlanta holds a special meaning for Black love, and the couples who come to this practice carry that meaning alongside the ordinary complexity of partnership. This therapy creates a space where both are honored, where relational repair draws from cultural understanding, and where both partners can be fully present rather than just showing up. Sessions are available virtually.
Atlanta organizations are leading a transformation in how the South engages with workplace wellbeing, and my corporate wellness offerings are designed to support that leadership. Trauma-informed somatic tools, sound healing, and nervous system education for teams that are ready to build something genuinely sustainable. Available virtually for Georgia organizations.
Serving clients in Atlanta and nearby areas
My virtual practice serves women throughout Atlanta and the surrounding communities, including Midtown, Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, Virginia Highland, Decatur, Buckhead, East Atlanta, West End, Vine City, and neighboring areas across the metro. Sessions are accessible from any private space, making the work available to women throughout the region without the barrier of commute or traffic. An embedded map of the Atlanta service area appears below.
Chelsey has been a mentor to me in many ways. She has a warm, patient, thoughtful presence that is consistent and unmoving, and the ability to closely contact whatever arises in a calm and non judgemental way that allows for connection. Highly recommend!
Haley Winer
Chelsey and I recently led a group and I was in awe of her ability to hold space, give others feedback, and stay regulated throughout the course. Chelsey was a supportive, caring, and wonderful co-facilitator. I learned so much from her!
Julia Willinger
She's phenomenal. I've had a few different therapists during my mental health journey, but Chelsea is the first one to actually make me feel comfortable enough to be vulnerable. She reminds me that it's okay to acknowledge my feelings, instead of bottling them up in order to process the situation that brought that particular feeling up. I spent a long time feeling invisible; my sessions with Chelsea remind me that I'm here, and I matter. It feels good to feel seen and understood.
Anonymous
What inspires me about Chelsey's clinical skills is that she has a talent and passion for integrating her work with holistic health and wellness. She offers healing on a deep level and her very presence has a calming effect. I highly recommend Chelsey.
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Chelsey's approach to therapy is rich, fulfilling, and empowering. Her groundedness propels her in the ability to be attuned to her clients' needs which is valuable to community healing.
Keri Anderson
I have had the privilege of being Chelsey's supervisor for the past 18 months. She is a caring and compassionate clinician who brings thoughtfulness, warmth and curiosity to her work with clients. I highly recommend Chelsey.
Penny H.
Chelsey has been a mentor to me in many ways. She has a warm, patient, thoughtful presence that is consistent and unmoving, and the ability to closely contact whatever arises in a calm and non judgemental way that allows for connection. Highly recommend!
Haley Winer
Chelsey and I recently led a group and I was in awe of her ability to hold space, give others feedback, and stay regulated throughout the course. Chelsey was a supportive, caring, and wonderful co-facilitator. I learned so much from her!
Julia Willinger
Testimonials
Hello, I'm Chelsey Reese, somatic therapist and sound healer serving Atlanta
I'm a somatic therapist, yoga practitioner, and sound healing facilitator, and the founder of Power Through Process Wellness Co., with a practice serving women of color in Atlanta, Georgia and beyond. My work is grounded in an anti-oppressive, decolonizing framework and draws from somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, relational Gestalt, and trauma-informed mindfulness. I serve women who are deeply capable and quietly exhausted, women who have been holding everything and are finally ready to let someone hold space for them. This practice is built on one foundation: empowering women of color to listen to the wisdom inside their bodies, release stored trauma, and step into an abundant life of peace and connection.
Frequently asked questions
How does virtual therapy work?
Virtual therapy sessions are held over a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. All you need is a private space, a stable internet connection, and a device with a camera and microphone.
Can I use my insurance for virtual therapy?
I currently do not accept insurance. I can provide a superbill for reimbursement and I do accept Loveland Vouchers.
What if I need to cancel or reschedule a session?
I ask for at least 24 hours notice to reschedule or cancel your session. Cancellations made less than 24 hours notice may incur a fee.
