Somatic Psychotherapy for Anxiety, Shame, Trauma, and Relationships
That anxiety, rumination, loneliness, or longing you feel doesn’t mean something is wrong with you.
It’s your own system calling you back into deeper connection — with your body, your authenticity, others and life itself.
My name is Kyle Vandenbroucke, and I offer somatic psychotherapy for people who are longing to feel more connected, grounded, and whole.
Many of the struggles that bring people to therapy — anxiety, shame, rumination, trauma, loneliness, relationship conflict, spiritual confusion — are often signs of disconnection.
Disconnection from yourself.
Disconnection from others.
Disconnection from the sacred.
In our work together, we begin to listen to what has been disconnected, defended, hidden, or alone — and support it in returning to relationship. Because healing does not happen in isolation. Healing happens when the parts of us that had to survive alone are finally met with presence, compassion, and care.
You may be doing your best to hold everything together while inside you feel anxious, overwhelmed, numb, lonely, or unsure of who you really are. You may find yourself caught in patterns you understand intellectually but still cannot seem to change. Rather than seeing these patterns as failures, we can begin to understand them as protective strategies — parts of you that adapted in order to survive, belong, or stay safe.
You might be struggling with:
Anxiety or chronic overwhelm
Rumination or obsessive thinking
Shame, self-criticism, or low self-worth
Trauma symptoms or emotional shutdown
Difficulty knowing what you feel or need
Relationship conflict or communication struggles
Loneliness, isolation, or difficulty receiving support
Spiritual crisis, religious trauma, or existential uncertainty
Psychedelic or mystical experiences that need integration
A longing for something deeper, truer, or more alive
These experiences can be painful, but they are not meaningless. Often, they are signals from the deeper self — invitations to return to a more honest, embodied, and connected way of living.
Three Pathways of Reconnection
My work centers around helping people return to healthy relationship in three essential dimensions:
Reconnecting With Yourself (Inward)
For anxiety, trauma, shame, rumination, dissociation, self-criticism, emotional overwhelm, and the longing to feel more grounded, whole, and authentic. This work helps you listen to your body, understand your nervous system, reconnect with hidden or exiled parts of yourself, and rebuild trust in your own inner knowing.
Reconnecting With Others (Outward)
For relationship pain, communication struggles, loneliness, attachment wounds, conflict, intimacy blocks, and patterns of self-abandonment or disconnection. This work helps you develop clearer boundaries, deeper communication, safer connection, and the ability to stay connected to yourself while in relationship with others.
Reconnecting With The Sacred (Upward)
For spiritual transition, religious trauma, existential crisis, mystical experience, psychedelic integration, and the longing for meaning, mystery, prayer, or divine connection. This work offers grounded support for integrating spiritual experience with psychological healing, embodiment, discernment, and everyday life.
My Approach
Our bodies carry a natural wisdom that’s always available to us—if we just learn to listen. My role, if we work together, is to help you tune into this inner compass, this subtle but profound guidance already within you. It’s not about looking outside for advice; real clarity comes from within. Often, advice simply reminds us of what we already know in our core.
As we grow, we tend to pick up beliefs and behaviors that lead us away from this inner guidance system. Maybe we’re taught to be “polite” instead of speaking our truth, or to hold back our feelings to blend in. These habits can gradually disconnect us from what we genuinely feel and need. In our sessions, we’ll explore ways to reconnect with your body and rediscover that inner wisdom. Sometimes this process unfolds quickly, and sometimes we take our time—but each step brings you closer to your true self.
Some of What I Believe:
I believe that our worthiness comes not from accomplishment, identity, or conformity but simply from our humanity.
I believe that each of us are the experts on our own lives AND we can learn from each other and benefit from others’ experience, wisdom, and mistakes.
I believe that our bodies are wise and tell the truth about our stories, lives, experiences and what is unspoken or dormant within us. I believe that our bodies work for our good and survival–even when what they are doing is no longer necessary for our good or survival.
I believe in being a life-long learner and that believing ourselves to have arrived risks living as a fundamentalist.
I believe that difference does not need to equate to danger or disconnection.
I believe in the power of relationships to help us heal, grow, shift, celebrate, endure, and enjoy life.
I believe in the inherent goodness of people of all genders, sexual identities and orientations, ethnicities, races, body abilities, body sizes, and socioeconomic status.
Insurance I take:
Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Aetna
Carelon
Kaiser
Medicaid
Get in Touch!
Schedule a free 20 minute consultation with me to see if it would be a good fit!
