Somatic Therapy for Tennessee Residents
Depth-oriented, trauma-informed psychotherapy for individuals and couples ready to move beneath the surface. Available throughout Tennessee via secure telehealth.
Where This Work
Began
I am Dr. Chanin Hardwick (PhD, LPCC, C-IAYT), a licensed psychotherapist and certified yoga therapist. My work sits at the intersection of evidence-based clinical care, somatic awareness, and depth psychology. I founded Embodied Soul Psychotherapy® on the conviction that lasting healing requires more than insight alone. It asks for the body's full participation.
I am licensed to practice in Tennessee and offer secure telehealth sessions for individuals and couples throughout the state, from Nashville and Memphis to Knoxville, Chattanooga, and beyond.
My approach is integrative and highly individualized. Rather than applying a fixed protocol, I draw from a range of evidence-based modalities based on each person's unique history, presenting concerns, and nervous system.
LOCATION
Tennessee — Telehealth Statewide
Serving clients across Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and beyond
FORMAT
Telehealth sessions
Licensed to practice throughout Tennessee
SPECIALIZATIONS
Trauma, relational healing, somatic integration, spiritual identity
APPROACH
Integrative, trauma-informed, body-centered
A State of Depth,
and of Quiet Complexity
Tennessee holds more complexity than its surface often reveals. Nashville draws people from across the country, carrying the particular exhaustion of reinvention: creative ambition, entrepreneurial pressure, and the ongoing negotiation between who you came here to become and who you actually are. Memphis carries a different weight, one rooted in history, community, and a culture that has always understood something about surviving difficulty without always having language for it. Knoxville and Chattanooga hold their own rhythms, blending Appalachian rootedness with the pace of growing cities.
Across these landscapes, many of the people I work with in Tennessee share something in common: a deep capacity for feeling alongside a learned wariness about what to do with it. Faith communities, family systems, and cultural norms have often shaped a relationship with emotional experience that honors endurance but leaves less room for the kind of sustained, embodied attention that healing asks for.
This work does not require dismantling what has held you. It asks only for a willingness to bring more of yourself into the room, to let the body's wisdom participate alongside the mind's, and to see what becomes possible from there.
An Integrative Framework,
Tailored to You
No two people arrive with the same history, the same nervous system, or the same readiness. I draw from a range of evidence-based modalities, choosing and combining them based on each person's unique presentation rather than following a fixed protocol.
When Strength Has Become a Way of Not Being Known
In Tennessee, resilience is cultural currency. The ability to endure, to keep going, to hold things together for others is deeply valued, and for good reason. But there is a cost when that same strength becomes a barrier to being truly seen, even by yourself. Somatic and depth-oriented therapy creates a different kind of space, one where what you have been carrying can finally be set down long enough to look at. Learn more about the approach →
Reinvention and the Grief No One Names
Nashville in particular draws people mid-transition: a career change, a relocation, a second act. What often goes unacknowledged is the grief that accompanies even chosen change, the loss of who you were, the identity you left behind, the life you did not take. Yoga Nidra and somatic practices offer a way to be present with that kind of grief without being overwhelmed by it, allowing the body to process what the mind is still trying to make sense of.
The Weight of Holding it Together for Everyone Else
Many people I work with are the ones others turn to. The steady one, the capable one, the one who manages. Over time, that role can crowd out any sense of what you yourself need or feel. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is particularly useful here, helping identify the parts of you that have taken on the caretaking role and creating room for the rest of the internal landscape to be included and heard.
Relational Wounds That Predate the Relationship You’re In Now
The patterns that show up in your closest relationships were often shaped long before you met the person you are with. Early relational experiences, family systems, and attachment histories organize themselves in the body and replay in the present. Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) works at that level of organization, helping shift what is happening beneath the surface of even the most familiar dynamics.
Faith, Spirituality, and the Edges of What Religion Could Hold
For many Tennesseans, faith has been a genuine source of meaning, community, and comfort. It has also, for some, been a place where certain experiences, certain questions, certain parts of the self, did not fully fit. This work is not about rejecting what has been meaningful. It is about making room for the parts of your inner life that have not had a place to land. Spiritually integrative therapy holds both the sacred and the complex without requiring you to choose between them. Explore the full approach →
Trauma That Was Never Called That
Not every formative wound comes with a name. In families and communities where endurance is a virtue, experiences that would clinically qualify as traumatic are often absorbed silently, without acknowledgment or repair. EMDR, integrated within a somatic and relational framework, offers a structured pathway for processing what has been stored in the nervous system, whether or not it was ever recognized as something that needed tending. Read more on the blog →
"Healing does not ask you to abandon what has sustained you. It asks you to bring all of yourself into the work."
— The Embodied Soul Approach
You May Recognize
Yourself Here
I work with high-functioning adults and couples who are often deeply capable and privately aware that something is not right beneath the surface. Tennessee clients I work with frequently navigate:
Complex or developmental trauma, including experiences that were never acknowledged as such within their family or community
The particular exhaustion of being the capable, steady one in every room they enter
Spiritual questions and experiences that have outgrown the containers that once held them
Identity transitions, including the grief of reinvention, relocation, or a life that has not unfolded as expected
Relational patterns that persist across relationships despite genuine effort and self-awareness
Couples navigating disconnection, rupture, or the quiet distance that accumulates over time
Telehealth sessions make it possible for me to work with clients throughout Tennessee, from Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville to Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Franklin, and beyond.
Before You Begin: Questions Worth Sitting With
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This question comes up often, particularly from people who have built their lives around self-sufficiency. There is nothing wrong with that capacity. But there is a difference between handling things and actually working through them. If you find that certain patterns keep returning, that you feel a chronic distance from yourself or others, or that something underneath the functioning feels off, those are meaningful signals. Therapy is not for people who cannot cope. It is for people who are ready to stop just coping and start something more. Reach out to start the conversation →
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Yes. My approach is spiritually integrative, which means I work with what is meaningful to you rather than around it. Faith, spiritual experience, and questions of meaning are welcomed into the therapeutic space, not bracketed off. At the same time, this work does not require any particular belief, and it does not impose a framework. Whatever your relationship to spirituality, whether it is central to your life, complicated, or still evolving, there is room for it here. Learn more about the approach →
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This is one of the most common reasons people wait longer than they need to. Trauma does not require a single defining event. Chronic emotional minimization, relational environments that asked too much and offered too little, and the accumulated weight of years of managing alone can organize in the nervous system just as profoundly as anything more identifiable. The absence of a dramatic story is not evidence that nothing happened or that nothing needs tending. Read more on the blog →
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Somatic therapy still involves talking. It is not a movement practice or a bodywork session. What makes it different is that we pay attention to what the body is doing as we work: where sensation arises, how breath changes, what the nervous system does in response to certain memories or topics. That attention gives us access to where patterns are actually held, rather than just exploring them at the level of story and thought. Most people find it a gentler and more grounded experience than they expected. Learn more →
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Yes, and for many people that is the right starting place. Individual therapy often surfaces the relational patterns that are most relevant to a partnership, and doing that work on your own can shift dynamics in ways that sometimes make couples work more possible later. I work with individuals and couples, and the decision about which format fits your situation is something we can discuss in an initial consultation. Schedule a free consultation →
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Telehealth makes continuity possible across distance, with one important boundary: I can only see you during sessions when you are physically located in a state where I hold a license. In addition to Tennessee, I am also licensed in California, Colorado, and Washington. If your travel takes you outside those states, we would need to pause sessions during that time. For many clients, this is manageable and worth planning around. Contact me with any questions →
Have more questions? Visit the full FAQ page for more on the approach, what to expect, and how to get started.
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