SOMA·ATHENE™ Clinical Therapy · 1–3 Day Intensives
You May Recognize Yourself Here
You've done the work to get out. Now the hardest part — learning to trust yourself again, quiet the noise, and actually feel free — that's what we do here.
"I can't enjoy my life without being triggered. I feel like I'm always in fight or flight."
"I just want to feel free to be myself — present, close to people I love, not constantly bracing for impact."
"I know I have strengths. I know I've survived so much. So why does it still feel like I'm not getting anywhere?"
"Your survival is proof of your strength. This isn't about fixing what's broken — it's about reclaiming what was always yours."
Is This Right For You
Honest Clarity
Intensives are powerful — and that's precisely why they require the right foundation. We want this to work for you.
The Real Cost of Waiting
Choose Your Path
Each intensive is custom-designed around your story, your goals, and your readiness. Choose the depth that honors where you are right now.
For a specific stuck point or recent event. EMDR and Flash Therapy to desensitize a defined trigger and restore your footing — with somatic integration throughout.
We go deeper — somatic work, nature integration, and narrative processing to shift long-standing relational patterns at the root. EMDR and Flash combined.
The complete experience. A full nervous system reset and deep narrative restoration — for those ready to move beyond survival mode entirely.
Flexible payment plans available — ask during your free consultation.
What to Expect
Every intensive integrates mind, narrative, and body — because lasting change requires all three.
We begin with your story — where you are, where you want to go, and what's been keeping you stuck. Every hour is purposeful from the start.
Using EMDR, Flash Therapy, narrative reconstruction, and mindfulness practices to address the roots of relational trauma — reducing its charge, not just managing it.
Trauma lives in the body. Movement, nature, meditation, and breath stabilize your nervous system and anchor the work where it actually lasts.
Clinical Approach
Each modality is chosen for what it can do that the others cannot. Nothing is used out of habit.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. The gold standard for trauma — processes stored traumatic memory at the neurological level.
A rapid, low-distress protocol for reducing the emotional charge of traumatic memories — often producing significant change in a single session.
IFS maps the internal protective parts that developed around trauma — and helps restore access to the self that was never actually broken.
Trauma is held in the body. Somatic work addresses the physiological dimension of trauma that talk therapy cannot reach on its own.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — present-moment grounding and values-based forward movement that builds a life worth returning to.
Maine's landscape is part of the work. Guided outdoor sessions use natural environments to accelerate regulation and integration.
The process of examining and reauthoring the story trauma wrote about you — restoring agency, coherence, and identity beyond what happened.
Precision-applied mindfulness drawn from Eastern psychology and contemplative tradition — not relaxation technique, but a tool for changing your relationship to internal experience.
"I became a therapist because I know what it means to hit a bottom and find your way back. I work with people who are done managing their pain — and ready to reclaim their life. That is the only work I do."Full credentials and clinical approach →
Emerging Innovation
Trauma therapies like EMDR reprocess the raw material. They do essential work. But once the nervous system has settled and the memories have moved from survival mode into something the brain can hold — a gap often remains.
The story has been reprocessed. It hasn't been retold. This approach closes that gap — and serves as a catalyst for healed narrative integration.
The story is presented following reprocessing, during a quiet moment in the session. The response is immediate and visceral — not gradual, not cognitive. Tears of recognition. A felt sense of being truly seen. Self-compassion that arises not as a concept to practice but as something that simply is.
Clients share that they are often left speechless, amazed — and feel as if they are seeing themselves clearly, as I do — as heroes.
During therapy, the clinician gathers the details that make a client's story theirs — heritage, language, family nicknames, direct quotes, personal interests, sensory memories, the things and people that matter most to them. Using AI as a creative tool — never as a therapist, never with access to clinical records — that material is transformed into a personalized illustrated story. The form — fable, myth, allegory, fairy tale, hero's journey — is shaped by what resonates. The client's life, told in the third person. A character who is unmistakably them, seen from the outside for the first time.
Art style, setting, and narrative voice are shaped entirely by the client. The result is a tangible artifact — a story that can be held, revisited, read aloud, or shared.
This is a clinician-directed intervention. AI never interacts with the client, never makes clinical decisions, and never accesses protected health information. All prompts are de-identified. Clinical judgment remains at the center of the process.
Conference presentations and peer-reviewed publication forthcoming 2026.
Common Questions
Two Branches. One Philosophy.
SOMA·ATHENE combines therapy with plant medicine under one roof — not because it's trendy, but because the body doesn't separate its systems and neither should your care.
James works through the nervous system. April Martin works through the body's relationship with the plant world. Working with April means a personalized botanical care plan — specific to your physiology, your history, and where you are in the integration process. Plant medicine as precise support, not general wellness.
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