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Despite insight, motivation, and tools—yet change doesn’t seem to last. Many clients and therapists often wonder why it's difficult to employ coping strategies and skills. This isn’t a failure of effort or intelligence. When the nervous system is overwhelmed, it becomes difficult to think clearly, reflect, or access the skills we’ve learned. Supporting the nervous system first creates the conditions for understanding, connection, and meaningful change to take hold.
From the Root Up and SMARTherapy ™ approaches, I support clients and clinicians in developing regulation and reflective capacity in ways that foster stability, insight, and integration.
- Natalie Brooks
״The body will continue to send us messages until our mind and heart start to pay attention״
How SMARTherapy™ Fits Into My Work
SMARTherapy™ (Somatic Mentalizing and Affect Regulation Therapy™) is an integrative approach that emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between nervous system regulation, embodied mentalizing, and the capacity to understand one's own and others' mental states.
It is an integrative psychotherapeutic approach that emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between nervous system regulation, embodied experience, and the capacity to understand one's own and others' mental states. Drawing upon principles of contemporary psychology, neuroscience, and yoga science, the approach integrates somatic awareness, mentalizing, and affect regulation to foster emotional resilience, psychological integration, and more meaningful connections with oneself and others.
