This Moment is Yours
It is natural to experience a range of emotions;
some flooding us thoroughly, and others frozen at our core.
Clinical Psychotherapy
in Nashville, TN
At Simply Being our therapists join with you to help facilitate healing and connection. We help you to recognize and accept your psychological and neurophysiological responses to disappointments and all forms of trauma, in order for you to build capacity to hold and resolve your pain.
Our therapists are experts at treating trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic stress and more. We incorporate knowledge of the brain and body, using both “talk” therapy and somatic approaches.
Approaches
It is natural to need guidance and support during difficult times.
At Simply Being we work with clients struggling with dysregulation and trauma.
Our aim is to facilitate a journey back to the whole of the Self using a variety of therapeutic and holistic approaches.
Services
- Somatic Trauma Therapy / Somatic Experiencing
- Integrative Psychotherapy
- Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
- Holistic Offerings
- Clinical Supervision
- Groups & Events
“Trauma is specifically an event that overwhelms the central nervous system, altering the way we process and recall memories. Trauma is not the story of something that happened back then, it’s the current imprint of that pain, horror, and fear living inside people.”
Bessel van der Kolk
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EMDR Therapy in Nashville, TN: A Complete Guide
There is a particular kind of courage required to search for trauma therapy. It is quiet courage — the kind that happens at midnight, with a phone screen glowing in the dark, while you type words you’ve never said out loud. It is the courage of someone who has tried...
Making the Most of Your Session
It’s common to feel unsure where to begin in a therapy session. Some people come in with a specific topic to unpack or a long list to discuss, while others come to therapy knowing they “need help” but may not have the language to describe their experience just yet. It...
Meet Dr. Barbie Hessel: Nashville’s Leading Trauma Therapist and the Heart Behind Simply Being Therapy
There is a particular quality to the air inside the Simply Being Therapy office in Berry Hill, Nashville. It is the kind of space that seems designed not just for comfort, but for permission — permission to slow down, to exhale, to arrive exactly as you are....
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Reflections by Dr. Barbie Hessel
Meet Dr. Barbie Hessel: Nashville’s Leading Trauma Therapist and the Heart Behind Simply Being Therapy
There is a particular quality to the air inside the Simply Being Therapy office in Berry Hill, Nashville. It is the kind of space that seems designed not just for comfort, but for permission — permission to slow down, to exhale, to arrive exactly as you are....
On Turning 50
I've been thinking a lot lately about getting older. I turned fifty this year, and somehow I'm already almost fifty-one. That seems impossible because in my head I was just having my 40s birthday celebration not that long ago. People ask me what fifty feels...
Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About “From”
The season finale of From is over. Some pieces fell into place. Many didn’t. There are still so many questions, so we are left where the writers clearly intended us to be—waiting in the Lake of Uncertainty. All us From fans are anxiously waiting for the next season....