This Moment is Yours
It is natural to experience a range of emotions;
some flooding us thoroughly, and others frozen at our core.
Trauma-Informed 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
Services
- Somatic Trauma Therapy / Somatic Experiencing
- Integrative Psychotherapy
- Couples Therapy
- Family Therapy
- 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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The Therapy Room Is a Petri Dish for Relationship
You can tell me about your relationships. We can talk about the partner you can't seem to trust. The parent whose approval you're still chasing. The friend you're afraid to disappoint. The way you disappear when someone is angry with you. The way you want...
Somatic Therapy in Nashville, TN: A Complete Guide to Body-Based Healing at Simply Being Therapy
You’ve done the work. You’ve sat in therapy offices, named the hard things, unpacked the past, and traced the stories of your pain back to their roots. And yet — something still doesn’t feel resolved. Maybe it’s the tightness in your chest that shows up without...
Couples Therapy in Nashville, TN — and What Ketamine-Assisted Couples Work Actually Involves
You already know how this one goes. It’s the third time this month. Maybe the fourth. It starts somewhere small — the dishes, the calendar, a tone of voice — and within ninety seconds you are both somewhere else entirely, somewhere older, running lines you have run so...
FOUNDER SERIES:
Reflections by Dr. Barbie Hessel
When Competence Becomes Armor
I am usually the person who remembers the appointments and the details of what needs to be done at home. I notice when we are almost out of toothpaste or garbage bags. None of these things is difficult on its own. It is the accumulation of them and the fact that they...
How to Recognize the Patterns That Keep Getting in Your Way—and Start Changing Them
Most of us have patterns we know pretty well. We overthink, avoid conflict, try to keep everyone happy, shut down when we are hurt, procrastinate or feel like we need to control what happens next. We may even understand where some of these patterns came from. The...
What If We Stop Optimizing?
I have been thinking lately about how much time we spend trying to make ourselves better. If my IG algorithm knows something about this, it's that I am not immune. Most of us want to grow and develop and some of us want to become “better” people. That all probably...






