Accepting new clients · Brooklyn Based, Serving New York State
Trauma-informed, somatic therapy in Brooklyn.
You’ve learned how to anticipate, adapt, and achieve. Now you want to feel less like you’re managing your life and more like you’re actually living it. Trauma and somatic therapy can help you slow down, notice what's happening beneath the surface, and live more freely.
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Katarina Bennicoff Yundt · MS, LCAT, BC‑DMT
Trauma responses and coping patterns
You learned to be easy to love.
You became the dependable one, the high achiever, the people-pleaser, the one everyone turns to. You learned to anticipate others’ needs while putting your own aside.
You learned to hold it all together.
Now you may be overthinking, masking, second-guessing, or constantly anticipating what could go wrong. You understand your patterns, but you’re still tired, anxious, and disconnected from what you actually need.
You can learn to come back to yourself.
In somatic and trauma-informed therapy, we’ll explore the patterns beneath your coping and create space for new ways of responding, with more choice, self-trust, and connection. Out of shame, back into your body.
Katarina Bennicoff Yundt MS, LCAT, BC‑DMT
What if you didn’t have to hold everything together? I work with adults and couples navigating trauma, anxiety, people-pleasing, perfectionism, overthinking, and neurodivergence so they can feel more grounded in themselves, trust their own needs, and live with greater freedom and authenticity.
I’m a Brooklyn-based therapist offering somatic and trauma-informed therapy. I know what it’s like to be capable on the outside while feeling anxious, uncertain, and disconnected from your own needs underneath. Growing up, I often cared for others while putting myself aside. Those experiences shaped my path into this work and how I support others today.
Therapy isn’t about changing who you are. It’s about feeling more comfortable, connected, and at home in yourself.
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Services
What brings you to therapy?
Therapy That Meets You Where You Are
How somatic + trauma therapy in NYC can help.
We’ll integrate talking with creative, experiential, and somatic therapy approaches. Sessions may include reflection, conversation, creative expression, and body-based awareness, depending on what feels most supportive.
Body based somatic practices
Uncovering the innate wisdom of what your body already knows. Support your body with completing the natural stress and trauma response cycle so you can move out of chronic survival mode.
Experiential therapy
Explore the present moment through feelings, body awareness, and creative or relational experiences. Understand how your past, present, and future inform each other.
Compassion-based therapy
Soften self-criticism, build a kinder relationship with yourself, and respond to difficult experiences with greater understanding. Tackle shame and self-criticism by building self-compassion and emotional regulation skills.
Parts work
Meeting the parts of you that learned to protect you and creating new experiences that shift how those patterns feel and function. Build trust, curiosity, and compassion to release the painful beliefs and heavy emotions you have carried for years.
The practical part
The details, made simple.
Where
Online only
Who can book
Throughout New York State
Individual session
$225
Couples session
$250
Insurance
Out of network
Reimbursement
Simplified through Mentaya
Sliding scale
Inquire for availability
First step
Book a free 15‑minute consult and we figure it out together
I believe therapy should be accessible. Let’s explore options that help make therapy work for you.
Your rights under the No Surprises Act
You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate of what your services may cost.
Trauma and somatic therapy FAQs
What to know before you get started with therapy.
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Your first session is a conversation about you, not a test you can fail.
We’ll talk about what brought you to therapy, what has been happening recently, relevant parts of your history, and what you’d like help with. I’ll ask questions, but you’re welcome to tell me if something doesn’t feel useful or you’re not ready to discuss it.
You don’t need to tell me your entire life story in the first session.
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That’s okay.
A lot of people know they’re unhappy, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck without knowing exactly why. You can tell me what you’ve noticed, even if it feels messy or incomplete, and we can start there.
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Somatic, trauma informed therapy in Brooklyn could be right for you if you’re tired of just talking about your problems. Somatic body-centered mental health approaches focus on the connection between the mind and physical sensations to release stress, tension, and trauma stored in the body. This helps your body complete the natural "fight-flight-freeze" cycle so you can move out of chronic survival mode. We can tune in to what happens in your body and connect it with your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
For example, you might notice that your chest tightens when someone is upset with you, that you stop breathing when you’re overwhelmed, or that you feel completely numb when someone asks what you want.
Those reactions can provide useful information about what you’re experiencing. We can notice them together without forcing you to do anything that feels uncomfortable.
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No.
You’re in control of what you share and when. We can work on what is affecting you now without immediately going into the most difficult experiences of your past.
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Dance/movement therapy (DMT) might be a good fit for you if you struggle to express complex emotions with words alone or feel disconnected from physical sensations in your body. DMT is psychotherapy that includes the body in the therapeutic process. As a board-certified dance/movement therapist, I may invite you to notice your breath, posture, tension, gestures, or movement to better understand what you’re experiencing.
In virtual one-on-one therapy, you don’t need to dance or perform. We might move a lot, move a little, or not move at all. Movement could look like shifting in your chair, stretching, noticing a physical response, or trying a brief guided exercise. Sometimes we simply talk while staying curious about what’s happening in your body. The goal is to help you develop greater awareness, connection, and choice in how you respond to your experiences.
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You don’t have to know before we talk.
The 15-minute consultation is a chance to share a little about what’s bringing you to therapy and get a feel for what it’s like to be in conversation. The right fit is about more than just credentials. You should feel like you can be yourself, feel understood, and be met with warmth and without judgment. If that feeling isn’t there, it’s completely okay to keep searching.
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What colleagues say.
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Ready when you are
How to get started with trauma-informed, somatic therapy in Brooklyn, NY.
Maybe you’re used to handling things on your own. Maybe reaching out feels uncomfortable, or you’re not even sure how to explain what’s been going on. You don’t need to have the right words or know exactly where to start.
I offer somatic and trauma-informed therapy for adults and couples navigating trauma, anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, relationship patterns, and feeling disconnected from themselves. Email me to get started or request a free 15‑minute consultation if you’d like to talk first.
Let’s take the first step.