Why Burnout Makes Everyday Tasks Feel So Hard (It’s Not Laziness)
If everyday tasks feel exhausting, it may not be laziness — it may be burnout. Learn how chronic stress impacts the nervous system and why rest alone isn’t enough.
Somatic Trauma Therapy vs Talk Therapy: Why High-Functioning Adults Often Need a Body-Based Approach
High-functioning adults often understand their patterns but still feel stuck in anxiety, burnout, or relationship cycles. This article explores why talk therapy can plateau — and how somatic trauma therapy works with the nervous system to create deeper, lasting change.
What Does Anxious Attachment Feel Like in Adults?
Anxious attachment in adults often shows up as relationship anxiety, overthinking, and difficulty calming your nervous system after disconnection or breakups. This post explores what anxious attachment actually feels like, why exes tend to resurface, and how somatic, trauma-informed therapy can help create more secure, steady relationships.
Phubbing and Relationship Trauma: A Somatic Trauma Therapist’s Perspective in Los Angeles
Phubbing may seem small, but from a nervous system perspective it can create emotional distance, attachment anxiety, and relationship stress. A somatic trauma therapist in Los Angeles explains why this pattern appears and how repair restores safety and connection.
Why Holiday Stress Overwhelms the Nervous System — and Why Rest Matters
Holiday stress can overwhelm the nervous system, leading to anxiety, exhaustion, and emotional overload. A somatic trauma therapist explains why rest is essential for regulation during high-stress seasons.
Featured in Bustle: Five-Finger Breathing to Calm Anxiety
Five-finger breathing is a simple, grounding technique that can help calm anxiety and overwhelm. A somatic trauma therapist explains how this body-based practice supports nervous system regulation.
Somatic Resilience in the AI Era: Healing Anxiety, Burnout & Tech Overload
Artificial intelligence was designed to improve efficiency, but for many high-achieving women it is increasing anxiety, burnout, and nervous system overload. Los Angeles somatic trauma therapist Chloë Bean, LMFT explains how chronic tech stimulation impacts emotional regulation and how somatic therapy helps restore balance, self-trust, and nervous system resilience.
Why I Don’t Take Insurance: A Somatic Trauma Therapist’s Perspective
Many people wonder why some therapists do not take insurance. From a trauma-informed, nervous-system–based perspective, private pay therapy allows greater flexibility, privacy, and clinical depth. Los Angeles somatic trauma therapist Chloë Bean, LMFT explains how insurance models can limit trauma healing and why private therapy better supports regulation, boundaries, and nervous system safety.
The Somatic Cost of People-Pleasing: How Chronic “Niceness” Impacts Your Body and Relationships
People-pleasing is not kindness. It is a nervous system survival pattern shaped by early experiences where safety depended on approval. Los Angeles trauma therapist Chloë Bean, LMFT explores the somatic cost of chronic niceness, why saying no can feel dangerous, and how body based therapy helps restore boundaries, self trust, and regulation for anxiety, trauma, and burnout.
When “Functional Freeze” Looks Like “Everything’s Fine” — Healing Through Somatic Awareness
Functional freeze is a trauma response where life looks fine on the outside while the nervous system is stuck in survival mode. Los Angeles somatic trauma therapist Chloë Bean, LMFT explains how functional freeze develops, why it often goes unnoticed, and how somatic therapy helps restore safety, connection, and vitality.
What I Shared in HuffPost About “Therapy-Speak” — and Why It’s Hurting Modern Dating
“Therapy-speak” can unintentionally create distance in modern dating when insight replaces presence. Learn how somatic healing supports nervous system safety, embodied communication, and deeper connection.
How Learning to Breathe Again Helps Women Heal from High-Functioning Anxiety
Many women live with high-functioning anxiety that keeps the nervous system in a constant state of alert. Los Angeles somatic trauma therapist Chloë Bean, LMFT shares how resonance-frequency breathing supports nervous system regulation and how this body-based practice helps women heal anxiety, restore calm, and reconnect with themselves through somatic therapy.
Ambient Stress in High-Achieving Women: What I Shared in Forbes and Why It Matters
Ambient stress is a chronic, background level of tension that often goes unnoticed but fuels anxiety, burnout, and emotional exhaustion in high-achieving women. Learn how ambient stress affects the nervous system and how somatic therapy supports real healing.
Am I a People Pleaser? How Trauma, Anxiety, and Perfectionism Shape This Pattern
People-pleasing is often more than a habit. It can be a trauma-shaped nervous system response rooted in anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of disconnection. Learn how this pattern forms and how healing can begin through trauma-informed therapy.
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Relationships: Why High-Achieving Women Crave Connection in Fall and Winter
As summer winds down, many start feeling the pull toward deeper connections. Explore the science behind this seasonal shift and how therapy can help you navigate these changes with clarity and self-compassion.
How IFS Therapy Builds Real Empathy and Deeper Connection Without Losing Yourself
What if you could see through someone else’s eyes—without losing yourself? Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps you build empathy, boundaries, and deeper connection by understanding the parts of you that protect and react.
Why It’s So Hard to Move On from a Toxic Relationship: Trauma Bonds, Attachment, and the Nervous System
Breakups are hard—but walking away from a toxic relationship can feel impossible. If you’re stuck in rumination, blame, or self-doubt, there’s a reason. Discover why high-achieving women struggle to let go, how trauma gets triggered, and what actually helps your nervous system move on. You’re not broken—you’re healing.
How to Make Friends in Los Angeles as an Adult When You’re Burnt Out, Busy, and Healing Trauma
Learn how somatic and EMDR therapy can help high-achieving women in California heal disordered eating and body shame by addressing trauma, nervous system regulation, perfectionism, and self-compassion.
Why High-Achieving Women Struggle with Anxiety and What Actually Helps
Struggling with anxiety, perfectionism, or burnout — even though you seem put-together on the outside? High-achieving women often feel stuck in cycles of overthinking and self-doubt. This post explores how trauma-informed approaches like Somatic Therapy, EMDR, and IFS (Internal Family Systems) help you calm your nervous system, heal from within, and finally feel at home in your body and mind.
How Somatic Therapy Helps Heal Body Image Struggles and Disordered Eating
Body image struggles and disordered eating are often rooted in nervous system stress rather than willpower or control. Learn how somatic therapy supports healing by helping the body feel safer, more regulated, and more connected over time.