PTSD therapy

Body-Based Healing for Anxiety, Overwhelm, and the Lingering Effects of PTSD (Trauma) in Palm Beach, Florida, Virtual Florida and Virtual Connecticut

You’ve learned to hold it all together.
To show up, perform, care for others — even when inside, you’re exhausted from managing the undercurrent of anxiety or emotional tension that never seems to quiet down.

Maybe you’ve been through something that changed you — a loss, betrayal, relationship trauma, or years of chronic stress and/or a diagnosis of PTSD.
You may not even label it as “trauma,” but you can feel its residue in your body and your nervous system:

• A constant edge of alertness or exhaustion

• Difficulty relaxing or feeling safe, even in calm moments

• Feeling detached, numb, or “not fully here”

• Startle responses, sleep issues, or tightness in your chest and gut

• Guilt or shame for not being able to “get over it”

• Feeling like something deeper is stuck — no matter how much you talk or analyze

You are not broken.
These are protective responses — your body’s way of trying to keep you safe after something that once felt overwhelming.
Real healing begins when we help your body and mind reconnect, and your nervous system learns that safety is possible again.

Integrating Mind, Body, and Self for Lasting Change

I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all therapy. As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and Licensed Psychotherapist, I integrate evidence-based and body-based modalities to help you heal on multiple levels — emotional, cognitive, physical, and spiritual.

My approach blends:

• Somatic Experiencing (SE) to release trauma stored in the nervous system

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to shift unhelpful thought loops and self-beliefs

• Motivational Interviewing to reconnect you with your strengths and inner drive

• Inner Child and Parts Work to heal the younger, protective aspects of you that still carry old fear or shame

• Shadow & Subpersonality Work to integrate the parts of you that had to adapt to survive

Together, these methods gently bring your system back into balance — helping you not only understand your trauma but transform it.

Understanding the Body’s Role in PTSD

When Talk Therapy Isn’t Enough

Trauma doesn’t only live in memory — it lives in the body.
When your nervous system becomes stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, it continues responding as if danger is still happening, even when life is safe now.

That’s why traditional talk therapy alone can sometimes leave you intellectually aware but still physically tense or emotionally flooded.

Through somatic therapy, we help your body safely discharge survival energy and learn new ways of regulating.
This allows your system to finally exhale — to feel safety, trust, and grounded presence from the inside out.

Clients often notice:

• Greater calm and emotional range

• Improved sleep and focus

• Less reactivity and startle

• A stronger sense of self

• The ability to experience joy, connection, and rest again

Working with Thought Patterns & Self-Beliefs

Reframing What Your Mind Learned from Trauma

Trauma often shapes how we see ourselves and the world.
You might carry thoughts like:

• “I should’ve handled it better.”

• “I can’t trust anyone.”

• “I have to be in control to be safe.”

• “If I slow down, everything will fall apart.”

Using CBT, we explore these automatic thought loops and bring curiosity instead of judgment.
You’ll learn to recognize cognitive distortions — like catastrophizing or self-blame — and create more balanced, empowering ways to think and respond.

When combined with somatic and emotional work, this process becomes deeply restorative — helping both your mind and body believe you are no longer in danger.

Healing the Parts That Had to Adapt

Inner Child, Shadow, and Subpersonality Integration

Many people living with trauma have inner “parts” that took on roles to survive — the pleaser, the controller, the achiever, or the part that hides.
These parts aren’t wrong; they were brilliant adaptations.

In therapy, we:

• Identify and listen to these inner parts without shame

• Understand the pain or fear each one carries

• Integrate them with compassion so you feel whole and at peace within

This work helps release chronic self-criticism and emotional fragmentation, replacing it with self-acceptance, confidence, and inner safety.

Motivational and Strength-Based Support

Rebuilding Trust in Your Capacity to Heal

Healing trauma takes courage — and sometimes, ambivalence.
Part of you wants freedom; another part fears change or reopening old wounds.

Using Motivational Interviewing, I help you stay connected to your own wisdom and pace.
This strength-based approach empowers you to:

• Set goals aligned with your readiness and values

• Reclaim your inner authority and voice

• See progress as non-linear but deeply meaningful

You begin to shift from surviving to living — with agency, authenticity, and grounded confidence.

What Healing from PTSD Can Look Like

Results My Clients Experience Over Time

Through consistent trauma-informed therapy, clients often describe:

• Feeling safer and more at home in their bodies

• Greater calm, clarity, and emotional regulation

• Freedom from chronic anxiety or shutdown

• Improved relationships and deeper connection

• A restored sense of joy, energy, and purpose

The goal isn’t to erase the past — it’s to free your system from its grip so you can live fully in the present.

PTSD Therapy in Palm Beach + Virtual for Florida & Connecticut

I offer trauma-informed therapy Palm Beach (Delray Beach to Jupiter) and virtually throughout Florida and Connecticut.

Sessions are designed to meet you where you are — honoring your story, your pace, and your capacity for change.
Each session builds on safety, awareness, and compassion — the foundation of real, lasting healing.

Begin Your Healing Journey

It’s time to feel safe inside yourself again

You’ve already endured the hardest parts.
Now, the work is about coming home — to your body, your truth, and your peace.

If you’re ready to begin healing from trauma with body-based, compassionate support, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

I’m Jennifer Goggin, LPC, LMHC, SEP —You can call me Jen — a trauma-informed therapist. I help high-achieving adults, overwhelmed professionals, and individuals carrying “invisible” emotional pain in Palm Beach, Virtual Florida and Virtual Connecticut, finally understand what’s happening in their nervous system so they can feel grounded, whole, and at home in their own lives again.

My work extends beyond traditional talk therapy, helping clients who feel stuck, burned out, or disconnected to finally move out of survival mode. Many of the people I work with have tried talk therapy before and didn’t get the relief they hoped for — and they come to me wanting something deeper, more practical, and actually transformative.

Clients describe my approach as warm, direct, and deeply validating. I teach you how to work with your body instead of against it, how to make sense of your reactions instead of blaming yourself, and how to rebuild safety, clarity, and confidence from the inside out. My goal is simple: to help you feel like yourself again — not the version that’s coping, but the version that’s living.

If you’re ready to understand your patterns, heal what’s driving your stress or trauma, and feel more grounded and in control, you’re in the right place. Below is more about my and on the left, is more information about me and my practice.

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