About Sarah Simpson, LCSW

Embodied Alignment Therapy is a nervous-system–informed psychotherapy practice serving individuals and partners. This work focuses on how stress, trauma, medical experiences, and long-term relational strain affect emotional regulation, felt safety, and the capacity for connection—with oneself and with others.

Rather than viewing symptoms or relational difficulties as problems to fix, therapy is oriented toward understanding how the nervous system has adapted for protection. By supporting regulation and internal safety, individuals and partners can regain access to presence, responsiveness, and choice in their inner and relational lives.

This approach is especially helpful for those who have insight into their patterns yet continue to feel stuck, disconnected, shut down, reactive, or unable to access closeness or emotional availability despite effort and intention.

This work is especially supportive for adults experiencing:

• Trauma or chronic stress
• Medical or sexual trauma
• Emotional numbness or overwhelm
• People-pleasing and boundary difficulties
• Relationship stress impacting individual well-being
• Difficulty accessing intimacy or desire
• High achievers
• Neurotypical individuals 
• Individual or partnered relationships 

Progress is measured by increased capacity, regulation, and self-trust

—not speed or intensity.

Clinical Orientation

Work at Embodied Alignment Therapy integrates:

• Nervous-system regulation and state-based interventions
• Attachment-informed and relational frameworks
• Somatic and body-based psychotherapy approaches
• Trauma-informed care emphasizing pacing, consent, and capacity

Sessions are collaborative and carefully paced to support regulation rather than overwhelm or escalation. The goal is not to force change, but to create the internal and relational conditions where meaningful change can emerge organically.

Advanced training supports work with how physiology, attachment history, and lived experience shape emotional regulation, relational patterns, and access to connection—both individually and between partners.

Training includes:

• Doctoral training in Clinical Sexology, with an emphasis on nervous-system regulation, attachment, and state-dependent access to desire and connection
• Somatic Experiencing–informed approaches to trauma and stress physiology
• Embodied Attachment Therapy, supporting relational safety and regulation
• Embodied Intimacy frameworks, addressing how stress, trauma, and medical experiences affect closeness and responsiveness
• Somatic and polyvagal-informed interventions for emotional regulation and relational repair

This training informs work with concerns such as emotional disconnection, relational strain, stress-related shutdown or reactivity, medical or reproductive experiences affecting connection, and difficulty feeling safe or present in one’s body or relationships.

Therapy is provided to individuals and partners within appropriate clinical and ethical guidelines. Work with intimacy, desire, or relational concerns is approached through a nervous-system and attachment lens and remains grounded in safety, consent, and therapeutic boundaries.

Therapy does not involve explicit content or performance-focused interventions. The focus remains on regulation, meaning, and relational capacity rather than technique or instruction.

This practice may be a good fit for individuals and partners seeking depth-oriented, body-based therapy and who are open to understanding their experiences through the lens of nervous system function and relational safety.

Those seeking directive coaching, prescriptive advice, or rapid behavioral change without attention to regulation may be better served by other approaches.