Somatic Therapy | Yoga and Sound Baths in Conyers | GA
Real healing takes the time it takes. Not the time a schedule permits, not the time a productivity framework endorses, but the time the body actually needs to move through what it has been holding. Power Through Process is a somatic therapy and sound healing practice for women of color who are willing to give their healing the time and depth it deserves. Not a quick fix. Not a shortcut. A genuine return to what the body has been waiting to experience.
Conyers sits at the eastern edge of the Atlanta metro, the Rockdale County seat positioned along I-20 about twenty-five miles east of the city. The Georgia International Horse Park lies just north of the town, its grounds built for the 1996 Olympic equestrian events and now hosting a range of competitions and events year-round. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit, established by Trappist monks in the 1940s, occupies a quiet stretch of farmland south of town, its chapel and gardens drawing visitors who are seeking exactly what the surrounding development has not provided. Conyers historic district holds the original commercial core along Main St, while the Milstead area to the northwest carries a different layer of the county's history. Newton County begins just east, and Social Circle lies a short drive further. The Salem Rd corridor connects residential Conyers to its neighbors, and the community's position along the I-20 spine means Atlanta is accessible while also genuinely distant in the way that matters: in the quality of quiet available here that the city cannot offer.
The women who find their way to somatic therapy in Conyers often come with a quality of patience. They are not in a hurry to be fixed. They want something real. They have perhaps tried things that moved faster and felt shallower, and they are ready for work that goes where it needs to go at the pace it needs to move. My practice is built precisely for that readiness.
How it works
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Start where you are—not where you think you “should” be
Somatic therapy does not import wisdom into the body from outside. It creates the conditions for the wisdom already present to become accessible. The body has been knowing what it needs for a long time. It has been signaling, waiting, holding. Sessions create the quality of attentiveness that allows what has been waiting to finally arrive at consciousness, and what arrives there tends to be exactly what was most needed.
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No scripts. Just what your body needs
There is no urgency required to begin this work. The first conversation is genuinely calm, oriented toward mutual understanding rather than rapid intake. We find out what is present, what has been present for a while, and whether the particular container this practice offers is the right one for this particular person. The beginning takes the time it needs.
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Where science meets soul
Somatic therapy is not a practice that produces its most significant results quickly. Its gifts are cumulative, arriving in layers, each one making the next more accessible. Clients who stay with the work over time often describe a quality of deepening that they did not expect, a growing intimacy with their own inner experience that becomes one of the most valuable things in their lives.
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Women who are willing to go slowly and go deep are the clients this practice is most designed for. Somatic therapy at its most effective is a patient practice, one that follows the body's own pace rather than imposing any external timeline. The depth of what becomes available through that patience is different from what any faster approach can produce. Sessions create a quality of unhurried attention in which the body's experience is allowed to unfold at its own rate. What surfaces is followed with care. What needs more time receives more time. Over the course of the work, something genuinely fundamental tends to shift, not just in how someone manages their experience but in who they are in relation to it. Sessions are offered virtually and accessible from any private space in Conyers or the surrounding communities.
There is a kind of quiet available in Conyers that is different from the quiet that urban areas manufacture. Sound baths and yoga engage with that quality of quiet at the level of the body itself, creating the conditions for genuine stillness in the nervous system rather than just in the surrounding environment. Sound healing sessions use the resonance of healing instruments to support the nervous system in moving toward a depth of rest that the surrounding quiet invites but cannot produce on its own. Yoga sessions build the capacity to inhabit that depth through slow, breath-centered movement that honors the body's own timing. Together, they offer a form of nourishment that is as unhurried as the pace of the community around them. Both offerings are available virtually and are appropriate for women at any stage of their relationship with bodywork or contemplative practice.
Women who are willing to go slowly and go deep often bring that same quality to their relationships, a quality of genuine attentiveness and care that is rare and precious. Relational Gestalt therapy works with that quality, creating a space in which it can be directed inward as well as outward, toward the self as well as toward others. Sessions attend to the live experience of the therapeutic relationship with the same patience that the client brings to the work. What is present here, between us, right now? What does genuine contact feel like from the inside? What happens when care is offered without any expectation attached? These questions are answered through direct experience rather than analysis. Clients who stay with this work often describe a quality of relational transformation that extends into every significant relationship in their lives.
The nervous system heals at its own pace, and that pace is almost always slower than the mind would prefer. Nervous system regulation work respects that pace without apology. Sessions create new experiences of safety and ease that accumulate over time, each one adding to the body's growing understanding that rest is genuinely available. The depth of regulation that becomes possible through patient, consistent work is qualitatively different from what can be produced through quicker approaches. It settles into the body at a level that does not require ongoing maintenance because it has become part of the body's new operating range rather than a skill being applied over the top of the old one. This work is offered virtually and is particularly suited for women who are willing to give their healing the time it actually needs.
Healing from trauma at genuine depth requires the kind of unhurried attention that this community's pace makes more accessible than many urban environments allow. Somatic trauma therapy moves at exactly that pace, following the nervous system's readiness without hurrying toward resolution and without leaving anything important on the surface when it needs to go deeper. Sessions create a quality of safety that builds incrementally, each session adding to the container's capacity to hold what needs to be held. What emerges through that building is not just the resolution of specific trauma but a different fundamental relationship with one's own history, one in which the past belongs more completely to the past. For women in Conyers and the surrounding communities who are willing to do the deep work, this practice offers the depth they are looking for.
Anxiety has a quality of urgency that makes patience feel impossible. Sound meditation addresses that urgency at the level of the nervous system rather than at the level of the mind's assessment of the situation, creating an experience of the body settling before the mind has had a chance to determine whether settling is appropriate. The particular quality of quiet available in communities like Conyers, further from the metro's constant noise, makes the sound meditation experience more accessible for some clients. The healing instruments speak more clearly when there is less ambient interference. The body receives more completely when the surrounding environment is already leaning toward stillness. Sessions are available virtually and require no prior experience with meditation or sound work.
Black women in communities east of Atlanta, in Rockdale County and the neighboring counties, carry the specific experience of navigating a region in transition, communities that are becoming more diverse while also holding the particular weight of a history that did not always welcome that diversity. Therapy for Black women in my practice holds that specific and complex reality. My anti-oppressive, decolonizing framework understands that Black women's healing happens in the full context of where they live and what that context has required of them. The work does not ask anyone to separate their personal experience from the cultural and historical one. Both are present in the body and both are addressed in the work. Women who come to this practice find a space of genuine depth where the full weight of what they carry is met with the full weight of its deserved attention.
Somatic yoga at its deepest is a practice of genuine inquiry into the body's own experience, one that requires enough time and quiet for real discovery to happen. The pace of communities like Conyers is more congruent with that inquiry than the urgency of urban environments, which is one of the reasons women here often find somatic yoga particularly nourishing. Sessions move slowly through the body's interior landscape, pausing where something significant is communicated and following wherever the inquiry leads. The practice is never rushed toward any destination because the destination is always exactly where the body is right now. Over time, that understanding becomes its own form of peace. Somatic yoga is offered virtually and is designed for women who are willing to be patient with themselves and curious about what patience makes possible.
Black couples in Conyers and the east metro communities carry a particular kind of relational patience that is one of the most undervalued qualities in partnership. This therapy meets that patience with its own, creating space for the deeper work of relational healing to unfold at the pace it actually needs. Sessions are offered virtually.
Conyers and Rockdale County organizations serve a community that is building something at its own pace and on its own terms. My corporate wellness offerings support that building with trauma-informed somatic tools, sound healing, and nervous system education that help teams develop the inner resilience their work requires. Available virtually.
Serving clients in Conyers and nearby areas
My practice serves women throughout Conyers and the surrounding communities, including Covington, Lithonia, Oxford, Newton County, and neighboring areas of east metro Atlanta. All sessions are offered virtually, which means the quality of care available here is accessible to women across the entire region without the barrier of distance. An embedded map of the Conyers 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 Conyers
I'm a somatic therapist, yoga practitioner, and sound healing facilitator, and the founder of Power Through Process Wellness Co., serving women of color in Conyers, Rockdale County, and throughout the Atlanta metro and beyond. My work draws from somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, relational Gestalt, and trauma-informed mindfulness, held within an anti-oppressive, decolonizing framework. I work with women who are willing to give their healing the depth and time it deserves, and I match that willingness with the quality of patience the work requires. This practice is grounded in one conviction: 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.
