Therapy Services for Mind, Body, and Nervous System
I offer therapy that helps you slow down, listen inward, and begin relating to yourself with more steadiness and care. My work integrates conversation, body awareness, and nervous system regulation so that change can be felt, not just understood.
Each area of focus below reflects a different doorway into the same process: building safety, connection, and meaningful change over time.
Outdoor Therapy
Therapy can happen outside, in a space that allows your body to move, settle, and respond naturally. We might walk side by side or sit quietly, letting the environment become part of the process. There's less pressure to perform or explain and more room to simply be.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma can shape how you relate to your body, emotions, relationships, and sense of safety. In therapy, I prioritize a steady, compassionate space to honor the profound impact your experiences have had while working toward healing and greater safety using current trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches.
Eating Disorder Recovery
Recovery is about significantly more than food — it's about rebuilding trust with your body, needs, and relationship to yourself and others. I offer a non-shaming, trauma-informed space for healing from eating disorders and disordered eating, honoring that these struggles often co-occur with experiences such as trauma, queerness, or neurodivergence.
Neurodivergence Affirming Therapy
You don't need to be fixed or made more "normal." I focus on helping you better understand your nervous system, reduce burnout, honor your needs, and build a life that works for your brain.
LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Therapy can be a place where your identity is explored, played with, and affirmed in all of its forms. Together, we can navigate relationships, trauma, family dynamics, medical transition, and living more fully as yourself.
Depression & Nervous System Shutdown
Depression or numbness is often less about motivation and more about nervous system depletion and protective shutdown. Therapy can help you understand what your system has been carrying, reconnect with yourself, and gently create movement toward relief, energy, and hope.
Anxiety Therapy
Anxiety can feel sharp, overwhelming, and hard to settle. In therapy, I meet it with compassion and curiosity, rather than trying to push it away. Together, we explore what it may be responding to so it can soften over time and create more space, choice, and ease.
Begin Therapy in Seattle: Somatic, Talk, and Beyond
Serena Stark Therapy offers psychodynamic talk therapy and somatic therapy in Seattle with outdoor sessions in the Washington Park Arboretum and telehealth across Washington State. Whether you're seeking support for trauma, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, or eating disorder recovery, this practice integrates talk therapy, mind body connection therapy, and nervous system regulation therapy to support lasting change.