Somatic Therapy for Washington residents
Depth-oriented, trauma-informed psychotherapy for individuals and couples ready to move beneath the surface. Available throughout Washington State via secure telehealth.
Depth-Oriented Care,
Available to You
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 Washington State and offer secure telehealth sessions for individuals and couples throughout the state, from Seattle and Bellevue to Tacoma, Spokane, Olympia, 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
Washington State — Telehealth Statewide
Serving clients across Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Spokane, and beyond
FORMAT
Telehealth sessions
Licensed to practice throughout Washington State
SPECIALIZATIONS
Trauma, relational healing, somatic integration, spiritual identity
APPROACH
Integrative, trauma-informed, body-centered
Beneath the Surface
of a Thoughtful State
Washington has built an identity around intelligence, innovation, and a certain stoic relationship with difficulty. The cultural current here can quietly reward emotional self-sufficiency: being the person who has already processed, already reflected, already figured out what you think and feel. Therapy itself is often approached with the same analytical rigor people bring to everything else.
But intellectual engagement with one's own inner life and embodied integration are not the same thing. Many of the people I work with in Washington are perceptive, well-read, and genuinely curious about themselves. They have often spent years understanding the contours of their patterns. What they are looking for is a way to actually shift them at the level where they live, below the narrative, in the body and in relationship.
Somatic, depth-oriented therapy offers that kind of access. Whether you are navigating the particular isolation that can come with Seattle's social culture, the pressure and pace of a tech career that has left little room for anything unproductive, or the experience of knowing yourself well and still feeling far from yourself, this work offers a space that can meet you 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 the Map Is Accurate but You're Still Lost
Washington clients often arrive having done real work: therapy, personal development, meditation, coaching. They understand themselves well. What they are looking for is not more self-knowledge but a way to live from it. Somatic therapy works at the level where understanding finally lands in the body and becomes something you can actually act from. Learn more about the approach →
Rest that Doesn’t Require Justification
In a culture that prizes productivity and intellectual rigor, slowing down can feel indulgent or unearned. Yoga Nidra and embodied practices offer a different relationship with stillness. Not as a reward for output, but as a form of attention in its own right. Within the therapeutic frame, these practices support the kind of deep nervous system rest that reorganizes something rather than simply pausing the pace. Explore the full approach →
The Cost of Living Inside Your Head
Intellectualizing is often a form of protection, a way the nervous system keeps difficult experience at a manageable distance. It works, until it doesn't. Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps identify the parts of us that have learned to lead with analysis, and creates space for the rest of the internal landscape to be known and included.
Partnership Under the Weight of a High Functioning Life
Two people who are each competent, self-aware, and well-intentioned can still find themselves chronically disconnected. In Washington, where both partners often carry demanding careers and high internal standards, couples work frequently involves learning to reach each other across the distance that competence creates. Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) and attachment-based work help couples access what the body already knows about what is missing between them.
Isolation in a Connected City
Colorado's culture celebrates pushing limits, and many people find they've pushed past a threshold that a vacation or a long weekend can't touch. Polyvagal-informed therapy helps us understand what the nervous system is actually asking for, and creates conditions where genuine restoration, not just recovery, becomes possible.
Performing Wellness While Running on Empty
Washington's culture includes a certain fluency with the language of mental health and self-care. Many people here know the concepts, use the vocabulary, and still privately feel that something has not reached them. EMDR, integrated within a somatic and depth-oriented framework, is not about learning more. It works directly with the nervous system's stored experience, which does not care how much you understand about it. Read more on the blog →
"Therapy is not about becoming someone new. It's about becoming less defended against who you already are."
— The Embodied Soul Approach
You May Recognize
Yourself Here
I work with high-functioning adults and couples who have often done the work of self-examination and are seeking a depth of care that matches what they already know about themselves. Washington clients I work with frequently navigate:
Complex or developmental trauma that hasn't fully resolved through previous therapy or personal development work
The particular strain of tech industry culture: intellectual pressure, identity tied to productivity, and very little room for the parts of oneself that don't perform
Relational patterns that persist despite genuine understanding and real effort to change them
Grief, identity transitions, and the disorientation of major life thresholds
Spiritual emergence, meaning-making, and questions of purpose that don't fit neatly into secular or achievement-oriented frameworks
Couples seeking to move beyond functional disconnection toward something more honest and alive
Telehealth sessions make it possible for me to work with clients throughout Washington State, from Seattle, Bellevue, and Tacoma to Spokane, Olympia, Bellingham, and beyond.
Before You Begin: Questions Worth Sitting With
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This is one of the most honest questions I hear, and it points directly to what somatic therapy addresses. Understanding is a cognitive process. Change, at the level we are talking about, happens in the nervous system, which does not update through insight alone. You can know exactly why you shut down in conflict, why you overextend at work, why you keep choosing the same kind of person, and still find that knowledge changes nothing in the moment. Somatic work reaches the level where those patterns are actually stored and organized, which is why people who have done years of productive talk therapy often find something shifts here that did not shift before. Learn more about the approach →
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Yes, and you do not need to be able to explain it for this work to begin. That sense of flatness, of performing a version of yourself while something else waits underneath, of going through the motions of a life that looks fine from the outside, is often what brings people here. It does not require a diagnosis or a dramatic event. It is exactly the kind of experience that depth-oriented, somatic therapy is designed to work with, because it lives below language rather than in it. Reach out to start the conversation →
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This concern comes up often, particularly with clients who work in tech, research, or other fields that reward analytical precision. The honest answer is that intellectualizing is something we work with directly, not around. Your analytical capacity is not a liability here. It becomes material. Internal Family Systems (IFS), which I draw from often, is particularly useful for people who lead with the mind, because it helps identify the protective role that analysis plays and creates room for the rest of the internal landscape to be included without requiring you to abandon how you think. Learn more →
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That experience of circling the same material without something actually shifting is meaningful feedback, and I take it seriously. The work I do is not primarily talk-based, and it is not structured around psychoeducation or skill-building. It is relational and somatic, which means the therapeutic relationship itself is part of what creates change, alongside direct work with the nervous system. If previous therapy felt like telling your story to someone who reflected it back, this will feel different. Whether it is the right fit is something a consultation can help clarify. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation →
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It is more than enough. Most of the people I work with are not in crisis. They are functioning well by most measures and privately aware that something is not right. The absence of an obvious problem does not mean there is nothing to work with. Quiet depletion, chronic disconnection, and the sense of living at a remove from your own life are serious experiences that deserve serious attention. You do not need to wait for things to get worse before this is worth doing.
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Yes. In addition to Washington, I am licensed to practice in California and Colorado. If you travel frequently for work, or if you know someone in another state who might benefit from this kind of care, that does not have to be a barrier. Telehealth makes it possible to maintain continuity across state lines as long as you are physically located in a state where I hold a license at the time of your session. California → Colorado → Tennessee →
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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