Vagal toning is a simple, body-based way to calm anxiety and regulate your nervous system. By stimulating the vagus nerve through practices like humming, extended exhales, and cold water stimulation, you can help your body shift out of stress mode and return to balance. These tools are easy to learn and powerful when practiced regularly.

Polyvagal Theory offers a simple but powerful map of the nervous system. It explains why you sometimes feel anxious and on edge, other times shut down or disconnected, and why moments of calm and connection are so healing. By understanding these states, you can begin to see your body’s responses not as failures, but as survival strategies that make sense. With this awareness, you can start to gently retrain your nervous system through breath, movement, connection, and therapy. Polyvagal Theory shows that healing isn’t about forcing positivity. It’s about finding safety.

I-CBT is a newer, evidence-based therapy for OCD that takes a different approach than ERP. Instead of using exposures, it focuses on correcting the reasoning errors that fuel obsessions. By teaching certainty in your senses and common sense, I-CBT helps you step out of the OCD cycle without fighting intrusive thoughts head-on.

Anxiety often shows up through physical symptoms like dizziness, a racing heart, or shortness of breath. These sensations can feel overwhelming, but they’re natural responses from the nervous system trying to keep you safe. With somatic tools and body-based therapy, you can break the cycle of fear and feel more grounded in your body.

IFS therapy views the mind as made up of many “parts” — inner voices, emotions, or roles that all want to protect you. By connecting with these parts from a place of compassion, you can release shame, calm anxiety, and heal old wounds. IFS offers a powerful way to feel more whole and connected to your true Self.

Somatic therapy is a body-based approach that helps you heal from trauma and anxiety by working directly with the nervous system. Instead of focusing only on thoughts, somatic therapy explores sensations, breath, and movement to release stored stress. Many people describe it as finally understanding why their body reacts the way it does, and discovering tools to feel safe again.