Treatment approach · Somatic
Somatic therapyin Orange County.
Somatic therapy here is body-first care inside PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach. Not a spa hour and not a later add-on.
Located in Laguna Beach, California
(949) 670-9345- The weekPHP or IOP
- StartThe body
- ThenThe rest of the plan
What this page is
Somatic work sits in the program week.
Somatic therapy here is body-first care inside trauma-informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach, not a spa hour. Breath and clinical yoga start the day so the body can stay in the room. Processing and skills sit next to this work. It is not a hospital, a locked unit, or a weekly class you add later.
The body first. Then the rest of the week.
The body inside the week
How somatic work sits in a PHP or IOP week.
A somatic day at Exist runs the whole model. Breath and yoga for the nervous system. Group for the pattern. 1:1 for the history. EMDR when a target is ready. Distress skills when the hour will not wait. Psychiatry when medication is part of it. You go home at night — or to Truth House if you are already in the program. The day is not a spa block and not a weekly yoga hallway. Trauma, personality, and use sit in the same groups when they are part of the week.
Body
Breath, yoga, the skill that makes the next hour possible. The week starts in the body when the mind cannot.
Mind
The thought that still runs once the chest drops. We work the reaction before asking you to change the life.
Brain
What sits under the startle — trauma, use, and personality read as one history, in a safe room.
Practice
Breath and yoga with your own clinician in the same PHP or IOP week. Not a hallway that waits until you are “calm enough.”
Who holds the week
The body pillar is hers. Not a spa hour.
Dr. Courtney Tracy · Founder and chief clinical officer
Courtney’s model starts in the nervous system. Maggie Scotto holds the somatic lane inside that week.
Founder
Dr. Courtney Tracy
In the room
LCSW · PsyD · CCTP
Clinic
Joint Commission PHP / IOP
What the body holds
The names in the room. Same week.
This is not a directory of other modalities or a grid of program intensities. Those live on their hubs. These are the ways the nervous system arrives here — treated together, not after each other.
What we treatTrauma
A body that still treats the past as now. Safety first, then the breath. The trauma page holds that name.
- PTSD
- The body
The body
Breath and yoga that are clinical, not decorative. Not a spa. Not a weekly class you add later.
- Breath
- Same week
Use as relief
Alcohol, prescriptions, the night that needed a way through — treated with the body, in the same week.
- Dual diagnosis
- Same week
The rest of the plan
DBT skills and EMDR sit in the same PHP or IOP week when they belong. Not a later clinic.
- DBT
- EMDR
Three steps to a start date.
- 01
Reach out
Call (949) 670-9345 or send the form. You talk to the clinic — not a call center.
- 02
We verify
We check your benefits and map somatic work against PHP, IOP, and outpatient — honest about which fits.
- 03
A start date
We recommend a level of care and set a date — and talk through Truth House if you’re coming from out of town.
Questions about somatic therapy, answered plainly.
Body-first care inside trauma-informed PHP or IOP in Laguna Beach — breath, yoga, the nervous system — next to substance use and personality work. Groups, 1:1, then the rest of the plan. Nights at home or at Truth House. We are not a hospital, not medical detox, and not a spa. Call (949) 670-9345.
Something we didn’t cover? Call (949) 670-9345 — you talk to the clinic, not a call center.
The body does not wait in a spa hour.
Call Exist at (949) 670-9345 or send the admissions form. We’ll say honestly whether PHP, IOP, outpatient, or a referral is the right level — and what your benefits actually cover.
Clinically reviewed by Dr. Courtney Tracy, LCSW, PsyD · Reviewed September 2026