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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For Couples Who Have Done the Work: Couples Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books, and you may have been through a few rounds of couples therapy. You’ve learned a lot. You can recite your own patterns. You know who pursues and who withdraws, and where the conversations tend to go sideways. And yet,...
Integration in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy: Turning Insight into Change
When people think about Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), they often focus on the medicine session itself. While the ketamine experience can be profound, much of the healing happens afterward—in the integration process. KAP is unique because it works through both...
A Guide to Being Gentle with Yourself
Many of us move through life with a loud inner critic that speaks to us in ways we would never speak to someone else. This critical, harsh, and oftentimes loud, voice can make already difficult situations much more challenging. Imagine reaching out to a friend during...
FOUNDER SERIES:
Reflections by Dr. Barbie Hessel
The Reality of Ketamine Treatment: Is It a Miracle Cure?
Everyone online seems to have one of two opinions about ketamine: • Ketamine is a miracle cure. • Ketamine is just a legal way for people to do drugs. Neither is true. I've worked with ketamine for eight years—as both a prescribing clinician and...
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....