Polyvagal Therapy

The client is describing something that happened three weeks ago. Her voice is steady. She's choosing her words carefully. And when she pauses to collect her thoughts, you notice her jaw has been clenched for the past ten minutes. She is articulate, self-aware, and genuinely trying. Her nervous system is somewhere else entirely. This is one of the most common and most important moments in clinical practice: a client who can narrate her experience clearly, but whose body hasn'