The Weight of Healing Spaces Why the Therapist’s Body Matters in the Room

The Weight of Healing Spaces

Why the Therapist’s Body Matters in the Room

Host: Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, Brainspotting Trainer

Therapy isn’t neutral—because our bodies are not neutral.

In Episode 14 of Beyond the Spot, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy explores how the therapist’s body, nervous system, and unprocessed history shape healing spaces just as much as the client’s. Drawing on history, lived experience, and Brainspotting, Tracy shows how limbic countertransference and unnoticed survival mode can shift sessions in ways that clients feel deeply—even if it goes unnamed.

With invitational reflections woven throughout, this episode offers both clinicians and clients practical ways to recognize the weight of presence, the legacies we bring into the room, and the power of embodied healing.

Healing doesn’t belong to the client alone. It belongs to all of us.