Somatic therapy · Richmond, VA & online across Virginia and DC

Find your way back to yourself. Through body-centered, trauma-informed therapy, we'll help you move from surviving to connection, ease, and resilience.

I help adults untangle the effects of trauma, chronic stress, anxiety, and difficult relationships so they can reconnect with themselves and their lives. Using Somatic Experiencing and Inner Relationship Focusing, we'll gently create lasting change by working with both your nervous system and your inner experience.

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Marie Norton, LPC, SEP, NCC, MEd, MFA · she/her/hers

Life may look successful but you know you don't feel settled. You'd like something to change.

People often find me when they feel…

Anger, rage, or chronic irritability

Hypervigilance and an inability to truly rest

Chronic pain or unexplained physical tension

Confusion over past events or unresolved trauma

Relationship concerns — past or present

Deep-seated self-criticism or imposter syndrome

Sadness, grief, or burnout

Loneliness

Unfulfilled ambitions, creative blocks, or feeling "stuck"

Numbness, blankness, or a sense of being "disconnected"

If some of these feel familiar, you aren't alone and you aren't broken; your body has been working hard to keep you safe. There is a way forward toward greater peace and connection.

A different way in

If you've tried traditional talk therapy and still feel stuck, hypervigilant, or disconnected from your body, these approaches may be the missing piece.

Certified Practitioner

Somatic Experiencing®

A body-based, science-backed approach to resolving trauma and chronic stress. Rather than retelling the story, we work gently with the nervous system by releasing survival responses that keep you braced. Your body and mind can finally learn it's safe to rest.

Certified Practitioner

Inner Relationship Focusing

A practice of compassionate self-awareness. We turn toward the parts of you that carry "shoulds," self-criticism, and shame. Change comes from curiosity and understanding rather than doubling-down into old patterns.

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For people who hold a lot, quietly

Many of my clients are high-achieving, creative people who maintain a successful public life while privately struggling with complex, developmental or acute trauma, imposter syndrome, or relationship patterns they'd like to change.

Together we work on regulating your nervous system to handle professional vulnerability, unblocking creative energy, and untangling your self-worth from your productivity or output.

Private pay, by design

Your work here stays entirely between us — complete confidentiality, no insurance-mandated diagnoses, and no records in insurance databases. A monthly superbill is available if you'd like to seek out-of-network reimbursement.

About fees & private pay

Values & honors minority experiences

LGBTQIA+ affirming

ADA-accessible office

In person in Richmond, VA

Virtual across Virginia & Washington, DC

Ready when you are

You can book directly with me — no phone tag, no intake forms before we meet.

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