Somatic Therapy | Yoga and Sound Baths in Decatur | GA
There is a moment when the strategies that kept someone functioning for years simply stop being enough. The overworking, the staying busy, the keeping everything moving so there is no space for what is underneath. When those strategies fail, it is not a crisis. It is an invitation. Power Through Process is a somatic therapy and sound healing practice for women of color who have arrived at that threshold and are ready to cross it into something more honest.
Decatur Square holds the civic center of a city that has cultivated a distinct identity within the Atlanta metro, walkable and community-minded in ways that distinguish it from its neighbors. Agnes Scott College sits just south of the square, its campus a quiet counterpoint to the activity of Church Street and the surrounding avenues. The Oakhurst neighborhood stretches south from the college, its bungalow-lined streets giving way to newer construction on the Ponce de Leon Ave corridor that connects Decatur to Atlanta's Virginia Highland and Old Fourth Ward to the west. The MARTA Decatur station sends commuters west into the city, while Scott Blvd and Clairmont Rd trace the eastern edge of a community that prizes its local character above its convenience to the metropolis.
East Lake sits just north, and the 2nd Ave arts corridor has grown into a distinct creative community within the larger city. Women who seek somatic therapy in Decatur are often at a transition point. Something has shifted in their circumstances, their relationships, or simply their own tolerance for the way things have been. The body is registering something that the mind has been managing. My practice meets women at exactly that threshold, creating space for what the body has been holding to finally be heard.
How it works
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Start where you are—not where you think you “should” be
Somatic therapy does not begin by asking what happened or why someone feels the way they do. It begins by asking what the body is doing right now in response to whatever is present. The clenching in the belly. The held quality of the breath. The way the body pulls back or pushes forward in certain moments. These responses are the text of the session, and learning to read them is the work.
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No scripts. Just what your body needs
There is no correct way to arrive at this practice. Someone can reach out when they are in a clear moment of needing something different or when they cannot articulate what is wrong beyond a general sense that something is. The first conversation is genuinely open, oriented toward finding out what is present and whether this work is the right fit. The beginning is as simple as it needs to be.
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Where science meets soul
The changes that happen through somatic therapy are not fragile. They do not require constant maintenance or the right circumstances to persist. They become part of the body's new vocabulary, part of what the nervous system knows how to do. Clients find that the work accumulates in ways they do not have to manage. The foundation simply becomes more solid.
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For women who have been managing their experience rather than inhabiting it, somatic therapy offers a completely different orientation. Not management but presence. Not control but attunement. The sessions create a space in which the body's experience is the most important information in the room, and everything else organizes around what that experience is actually saying. What changes over time is the relationship between sensation and meaning. Clients begin to recognize their body's signals before they escalate. The emotional experiences that once felt overwhelming begin to have a texture that is navigable rather than consuming. Something that was out of reach becomes accessible. Virtual sessions mean this support is reachable from home, which is particularly meaningful for women who carry the heaviest loads and have the least time.
A threshold moment calls for something different from what came before. Yoga and sound baths are practices that do not ask for more of what was already being given. They ask for something entirely different: the willingness to receive. To let the body be moved rather than driven. To allow vibration and breath to do what effort cannot. Sound healing sessions use the resonant quality of healing instruments to create an experience of release that the client does not have to produce. The body simply responds. Yoga sessions offer slow, intentional movement that builds the capacity to stay present in the body as that response happens, without needing to direct or manage it. Both practices are available virtually and are accessible to women who have never tried either.
Transition moments often surface relational questions that have been submerged. What kinds of connection have I actually had? What has been genuine and what has been performed? What do I actually want from the people in my life and what have I been settling for? Relational Gestalt therapy creates space to explore these questions through lived experience rather than analysis. Sessions work with the relationship in the room as a real-time practice ground. How does it feel when attention is offered without agenda? What happens when a need is expressed without immediately softening it? These experiences create new templates that begin to reshape how clients show up in relationships outside the therapy room. Clients often describe this work as deeply disorienting and deeply relieving in equal measure. Both responses indicate that something real is happening.
When the strategies that kept someone going begin to fail, the nervous system is often the first place the failure registers. The disrupted sleep. The difficulty concentrating. The disproportionate reactions to minor stressors. These are not signs of personal weakness. They are signs of a nervous system that has been running too hot for too long and is beginning to show the cost. Nervous system regulation work addresses that cost directly, creating new experiences of safety in the body that begin to rebuild the baseline. Clients find that the reactive quality of their responses begins to soften, that there is more space between stimulus and reaction, and that rest becomes genuinely available in a way it had not been. This work is offered virtually and is appropriate for women at any stage of their understanding of their own nervous system patterns.
Sometimes the threshold moment that brings a woman to this work is connected to something that happened long before the present moment. The body has been carrying it, managing around it, organizing the entire experience of life to avoid being too close to it. Somatic trauma therapy creates a safe enough environment for that organizing to begin to relax. Sessions work at the level of the nervous system's held response rather than the level of narrative. The goal is not to revisit what happened but to help the body complete what it could not complete at the time. The approach is slow and entirely guided by the client's own sense of what is workable. What emerges through this work often surprises clients in its specificity. The body has been waiting to address things the mind had moved on from, and in the right conditions, it knows exactly where to begin.
Threshold moments are inherently anxious. The familiar has stopped working and the new is not yet clear. Sound meditation does not offer certainty about what comes next. It offers something the anxious nervous system needs more urgently: a direct experience of regulation in the body, independent of how the outer circumstances resolve. The vibrational quality of healing instruments used in sound meditation bypasses the mind's need to understand what is happening before it allows the body to respond. The release comes before the analysis. Many clients describe this as the first time they have felt the anxiety actually leave the body rather than simply being thought through. Sessions are available virtually and welcome women wherever they are in their relationship with anxiety.
For Black women in Decatur and the broader Atlanta area, the threshold moment often involves a recognition that the strength that has been so reliable is asking for rest. Not retirement, not collapse, but actual rest. Therapy for Black women in my practice creates a space where that rest is not only permitted but actively supported. My anti-oppressive, decolonizing framework recognizes that the strength Black women are expected to embody carries a specific cultural weight, one that was forged in survival and that deserves to be honored in its full context. The work does not ask anyone to leave that context at the door. It holds it as central to what healing means. Women who come to this practice find a space where the full reality of their experience, personal and cultural, historical and present, is held with complete attention and care.
Decatur's walkable, community-oriented character invites a certain kind of physical presence in the world. Somatic yoga takes that invitation inward, asking the body to bring the same attentiveness to its own interior landscape that it might bring to a neighborhood it loves. Sessions move through slow, sensation-oriented sequences that prioritize the quality of the internal experience over any external standard. What the body communicates at the edges of movement and stillness becomes the guide. The practice builds over time into a form of physical intelligence that is genuinely specific to each person's body and history. Somatic yoga is offered virtually and accessible to women regardless of prior yoga experience.
For Black couples in Decatur and the DeKalb County community, the relational work of navigating life's transitions together is both its own challenge and an opportunity for deeper connection. Black couples therapy in this practice supports that connection with cultural attunement and genuine care for what both partners are carrying. Sessions are virtual.
Decatur's community of organizations serves people with real complexity and real need. My corporate wellness offerings bring somatic tools and nervous system regulation practices to workplace contexts that want to center genuine employee wellbeing rather than productivity-optimizing wellness programs. Available virtually.
Serving clients in Decatur and nearby areas
My virtual practice serves women throughout Decatur and the surrounding communities, including Oakhurst, East Lake, Avondale Estates, Clarkston, Tucker, and neighboring parts of DeKalb County. Women in Atlanta's inner neighborhoods and across the eastern metro are equally welcome. Sessions are accessible from any private space. An embedded map of the Decatur 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 Decatur
I'm the founder of Power Through Process Wellness Co. and a somatic therapist, yoga practitioner, and sound healing facilitator serving women of color in Decatur and across the Atlanta metro. My practice is grounded in an anti-oppressive, decolonizing framework and integrates somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, relational Gestalt, and trauma-informed mindfulness. I work with women who are standing at a threshold and are ready to step across it into something more honest and more whole. My practice is built on this: 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.
