Somatic Therapy | Yoga and Sound Baths in Midtown Atlanta | GA
Being in the middle of everything and still not feeling centered is a particular kind of disorientation. Surrounded by activity, by culture, by connection, by all the things that are supposed to produce fullness, and still carrying a sense of something missing. Power Through Process is a somatic therapy and sound healing practice for women of color who live full lives and still feel hollow at the center of them. This work goes to that center directly.
Piedmont Park runs through the middle of Midtown like a long green exhale, its dogwood path and meadow and lake offering the city's most accessible encounter with stillness. The Fox Theatre stands on Peachtree St, its Moorish fantasy interior hosting the kind of evenings that remind people why they chose this city. The Woodruff Arts Center holds the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art on the same campus, making the intersection of Peachtree and 15th one of the densest concentrations of cultural institutions in the Southeast. Georgia Tech's campus begins just west of 10th St, its academic energy bleeding into the residential streets around it. Colony Square marks the midpoint of the Peachtree corridor between downtown and Buckhead, and the MARTA Arts Center station puts the entire city within reach. Atlantic Station sits just to the west, its mixed-use development drawing a younger professional population. Biltmore Hotel, sitting above the expressway on West Peachtree, remains one of the neighborhood's most recognizable landmarks.
Women who seek somatic therapy in Midtown Atlanta are often precisely the ones the city most wants to see as flourishing. Educated, engaged, culturally present, professionally accomplished. And underneath that flourishing, something that the flourishing has not addressed. My practice reaches underneath, to the place where the body's actual experience lives, and creates the conditions for it to finally be heard.
How it works
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Start where you are—not where you think you “should” be
The mind has a story about what is happening. The body has the actual experience of it. Somatic therapy works with the body's version because the body's version is where change actually occurs. Sessions create space for the physical experience of whatever is present to be the primary subject: the sensation in the chest, the held quality of the breath, the way the body organizes itself around certain kinds of awareness.
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No scripts. Just what your body needs
Many of the women who reach out do not know exactly what they need. They know something is off. They know the current way of managing things is not sustainable. They know the body is asking for something. That knowing is more than enough to begin. The first conversation follows that knowing without requiring it to be more defined than it is.
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Where science meets soul
The healing that happens through somatic therapy integrates into the body's actual experience of life rather than remaining a collection of insights or techniques to be applied. Clients describe a growing quality of being at home in themselves, of moving through demanding days with more internal space, of finding that rest has become genuinely accessible rather than perpetually postponed.
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The culture of Midtown Atlanta values presence, creativity, and engagement. What it rarely values, and what somatic therapy exists to restore, is the quality of inner presence that makes genuine outer presence possible. Without a real center, all the external engagement is performance. Somatic therapy builds the center. Sessions attend to the body's experience with the same thoroughness that Midtown culture directs toward the external world. Inward. Toward sensation, breath, the quality of what is alive inside in this particular moment. Over time, that inward attention becomes its own form of intelligence, one that changes how everything else is navigated. All sessions are virtual. They are accessible from a home, a studio, or any private space in Midtown or beyond.
A city that offers a world-class performing arts center within walking distance of a major park, a major university, and a MARTA station is a city that knows how to deliver cultural nourishment. What it does not deliver is the particular kind of nourishment that only comes from genuine stillness. Yoga and sound baths fill that gap. Sound healing sessions create the conditions for stillness in the body itself, using vibrational resonance to support the nervous system in moving from the stimulated state that Midtown life produces toward a genuinely quieter one. Yoga sessions build the capacity to inhabit that quieter state through slow, sensation-led movement. Together, they offer something the surrounding culture cannot. Both offerings are accessible virtually and designed for women with any level of prior experience.
Cultural communities are rich in contact but sometimes thin in genuine intimacy. The events, the openings, the conversations at the arts center, the network dinners. Connection everywhere and genuine knowing of each other less common than the contact suggests. Relational Gestalt therapy creates a space for the deeper kind. Sessions attend to what genuine contact feels like and what gets in the way of it. Not in theory but in the actual experience of the session itself. What happens in the body when presence is offered fully? What arises when the performance of being fine is set aside? These are the live questions of the work, and the answers are felt rather than analyzed. Clients often find that what changes in how they experience their closest relationships is more profound than anything the broader cultural engagement has produced.
Cultural density produces sensory stimulation that never fully resolves. The constant influx of input, the ambient performance of a neighborhood always curating itself, the social expectations of a community that values visibility. The nervous system learns to process all of it, and the cost of that processing accumulates in ways that the cultural richness does not offset. Nervous system regulation work creates experiences of genuine settled quiet that the ambient culture of Midtown cannot provide. Sessions build the body's capacity to fully discharge the accumulated stimulation and return to genuine baseline, a baseline that becomes more accessible and more familiar over time. This work is offered virtually and is particularly relevant for women living in high-stimulation cultural environments.
For women in cultural and creative communities, trauma sometimes presents as the gap between the self that is visible in the world and the self that lives inside. The publicly engaged, aesthetically attuned, professionally present woman and the private exhaustion that no one in her cultural circle is able to see. Somatic trauma therapy works with what lives in that gap. Sessions create the conditions for the private self to receive the same quality of attention that the public self receives from the surrounding community. The focus is always on the body's own readiness, and the pace is always the one that the nervous system can integrate. Nothing is rushed toward visibility. What clients find through this work is often a quality of internal coherence, a sense that the person who exists privately and the person who shows up publicly are beginning to be the same person.
The anxiety of living in a culturally stimulating environment can present as a kind of overfullness: too much input, too many things that matter, too little quiet in which to determine what matters most. Sound meditation creates that quiet by working directly with the nervous system rather than with the cognitive assessment of what deserves attention. During sessions, the vibrational quality of healing instruments creates an auditory and physiological environment in which the overfullness temporarily settles. What is left in that settling is often what was most real and most needed, beneath all the stimulation. Clients frequently describe sound meditation as the most clarifying practice they have encountered. Sessions are available virtually and accessible to women regardless of prior meditation experience.
Midtown Atlanta is, among other things, a significant center of Black professional and creative life in the South. Black women in this community carry both the pride of that and the specific pressures of navigating cultural spaces where representation is still earned rather than assumed, where being excellent is the price of admission rather than a guarantee of welcome. Therapy in my practice holds that specific experience. My anti-oppressive, decolonizing framework understands that cultural achievement and personal exhaustion are not contradictions for Black women. They coexist regularly, and they both deserve attention. The work addresses both without requiring either to be set aside in favor of the other. Black women in Midtown Atlanta find in this practice a space that is equal to the fullness of what they carry and what they have built.
In a neighborhood with Piedmont Park as its backyard, the invitation to move through something beautiful is always available. Somatic yoga takes that invitation inward, asking the body to move through its own interior landscape with the same quality of attentive pleasure that a walk along the park's dogwood trail produces. Sessions are unhurried and guided by sensation rather than form. What the body wants to explore, the session follows. What wants to release, is given the space to. The practice builds over time into something that functions less like exercise and more like ongoing conversation between a woman and her own most intimate knowledge. Somatic yoga is offered virtually and accessible to women at any level of experience with movement or bodywork.
For Black couples in Midtown Atlanta, the cultural richness of the neighborhood is both an asset and an invitation to go deeper in the relationship. This therapy supports that depth, creating a space where both partners can explore what genuine intimacy requires and what it makes possible. Sessions are available virtually.
Midtown Atlanta organizations operate in one of the most culturally and professionally dense corridors in the South. My corporate wellness offerings bring somatic regulation tools, sound healing, and nervous system education to teams in the Midtown and Peachtree corridor that want their wellbeing programs to match the depth of the work they are doing. Available virtually.
Serving clients in Midtown Atlanta and nearby areas
My practice serves women throughout Midtown Atlanta and the surrounding communities, including Georgia Tech corridor, Atlantic Station, Buckhead, Ansley Park, Virginia Highland, and the broader central Atlanta neighborhoods. All sessions are offered virtually. An embedded map of the Midtown 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 Midtown Atlanta
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 Midtown Atlanta and throughout the metro. My practice 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 deeply engaged with the world around them and ready to develop an equally deep engagement with the world inside them. My practice is founded on the belief that 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 is the work that makes everything else more real.
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.
