Our Care Philosophy
Somatic and Mindfulness Coaching in Virginia Beach
At Healing Arts Center, we believe every person who walks through our door carries both lived experience and great inner wisdom.
Most people who find us have already spent years trying to push through. They have talked themselves out of their feelings, told themselves they should be over it, and still end up right back where they started—caught in guilt, shame, and regret. Their nervous system never learned how to feel safe enough to let any of it go. That is where we start.
We are somatic and mindfulness coaches. In practical terms, we help people learn how to listen to themselves again, so they can reduce stress, react to emotions with greater understanding, and find practical ways to improve their daily well-being.
We help you listen to yourself.
Your body is always communicating with you—the tightness across your chest before a hard conversation, your stomach dropping when something feels wrong, exhaustion after sleep, the breath you hold. These are signals. Once you learn how to hear them, you stop fighting yourself and start working with yourself.
We help you build the tools to pause before the spiral takes over, face difficulties with confidence, and feel steady and restored throughout challenges, rather than depleted.
Your body has been carrying more than you realize.
Pain, difficult experiences, guilt, shame, and regret settle into the body. Into your shoulders, your stomach, your jaw, your breath. Into the way you brace before someone raises their voice. Into the tension that remains even when life feels okay on the surface.
We work with both the mind and the body because lasting change comes from tackling both. When you learn to work with what your body is carrying, you gain greater emotional balance and growth that thinking alone cannot achieve.
You know yourself better than anyone in this room.
We bring years of training and experience to this work. You bring your own life, your own history, your own understanding of what you need and what has never quite fit. We are here to listen more than we talk. To ask questions that help you hear yourself more clearly. To follow your lead, although the path takes a turn we did not expect. You are a person with a history, and this work belongs to you.
We look at the whole picture.
Your emotional health is connected to your physical health, your relationships, your feeling of purpose, and the experiences you have carried for years, sometimes decades. The guilt is showing up in your relationships. The shame is keeping you from asking for what you need. The regret makes it hard to believe things can be different. Pulling on one thread moves all the others.
We look at what is actually going on across all of it. Surface-level change does not hold. Real change happens when you understand how everything is connected and what actually needs attention first. The kind of work we do together takes time. It also lasts.
We are not in a hurry, and we will never rush you.
Healing does not move in a straight line. It circles back and plateaus. It surprises you and then asks you to slow down. Some weeks crack something open. Other weeks, you feel stuck. Both are part of it. Neither means something is wrong.
We understand the pressure to get results fast. But that is not how healing works. We offer patience instead. This is a space where you do not have to show progress or pretend to be further along. You can be exactly where you are, even on the hard days.
The relationship is where healing begins.
Something changes when you feel genuinely safe with another person. When you can say what you have never said out loud and still be met with steadiness. When you do not have to manage how you come across or explain yourself before you start.
Safety creates the conditions in which old patterns loosen and something new can grow. It gives you somewhere solid to land.
At Healing Arts Center, the relationship we build with you is the work. It is where everything else becomes possible.
This guides every session, every conversation, and every decision we make about how we show up for those who trust us with their healing.
If any of this feels like what you have been looking for, we would love to hear from you. You do not have to have it all figured out. One step is enough. We will be here when you are ready.
To learn more about our services, visit https://www.healingartsvb.com
To schedule a session, book directly at https://www.vagaro.com/healingartscenter
This doesn’t replace therapy. Erin Freeman, owner of But First Heal Thyself, is a somatic therapist and part of our collab.
