Psychosomatic anxiety is a whole-system pattern where the body carries what the mind can’t express. This guide explores symptoms, root causes, nervous system patterns, and trauma-informed approaches that help people finally understand what their bodies have been trying to communicate.

What if your chronic symptoms aren’t random, but meaningful? In this article, I unpack what psychosomatic coaching really means, how trauma lives in the body, and why sensitive, high-functioning individuals often carry invisible burdens that don’t show up on scans. This trauma-informed, body-based approach invites you to understand symptoms as signals and to begin a new relationship with your body, rooted in listening rather than override.

Burnout isn’t always loud. For many high-functioning clients, it arrives quietly: after months or years of overriding the body’s cues. What looks like resilience on the outside can often be structural dissociation on the inside. In this piece, we explore how psychosomatic coaching and parts work help practitioners recognise dissociation not just in collapse, but in over-adaptation, over-giving, and the relentless drive to keep going.