What Is Connection Somatics®?
Connection Somatics® is a new approach to healing that brings together cutting-edge neuroscience and the wisdom of attachment. It shines a light on what has remained unseen, unfelt, or unspoken, helping release the burden of unresolved experience the body has carried alone. The truth is simple yet profound: we heal through connection.
From Disconnection to Belonging
Connection is what we needed most when we were most vulnerable. We could not have survived without it, and we still cannot. When connection was missing or insufficient, the absence leaves the deepest pain of all, one that is often hidden from awareness. Connection Somatics® is an advanced, leading-edge consensus model designed to transform this hidden pain into self-compassion, belonging, and authentic expression.
Life-Changing Transformation
The next step in Connection Somatics® is our guided peer-healing community: a neuroscience-informed model designed to address the deepest human wound, the loss of belonging. By practicing together, being seen, and restoring connection, individuals access transformation that cannot be reached alone. Grounded in attachment science and neuroplasticity, this approach recognizes the body as the keeper of unresolved experience and belonging as the foundation for enduring healing.
Private 1:1 Sessions
Private sessions remain available in a limited capacity with Dr. Chris Phillippi. Drawing on more than two decades of expertise in mind-body medicine, these sessions provide a uniquely intimate and guided process, creating the conditions for profound healing and personal transformation.
A New Life Through Connection Somatics®
"For the first time, I felt like someone could really see what I’ve been carrying. It was more than talking about it. It was like the weight finally had somewhere to go. That experience alone has changed how I move through my life."
"Patterns I carried for decades began to shift in ways I never thought possible. This work reached places that therapy and self-help never touched. It has completely changed how I relate to myself and others."
"I came in with years of unresolved pain that no amount of therapy seemed to touch. Connection Somatics® gave me a way to feel and release what words could never reach. The change has been deep, lasting, and undeniable."
"I didn’t realize how much I was carrying until this work showed me. Honestly, it felt like too much at first, like opening a closet I had stuffed full and shut tight. Facing all of it wasn’t easy, but having someone really there with me made it possible. Little by little the fear started to lift, and the walls I had built around myself for years began to fall away. Patterns I thought would always control me finally started to loosen. Now I feel lighter, freer, and like I actually belong in my own body and with others. That shift has changed my whole life."
"This was the most profound transformation I have ever experienced. The weight of my past is no longer running my life. For the first time, I feel free to live fully and authentically."
"Working with Dr. Chris was different from anything I’ve ever tried. He didn’t just listen to my words, he noticed what was happening in my body and helped me find the places I had been holding things for years. At first I was nervous to let someone see me that deeply, but his presence made it feel safe. The patterns that used to run my life started to shift in ways I didn’t think were possible. For the first time I felt like I truly belonged in my own skin, and that sense of belonging has carried into my relationships too. It has been completely life changing."
The Future of Connection Somatics®
Our long-term vision is to train practitioners to bring this approach into their work. Once the community model is fully established, Connection Somatics® will be offered as a training path for therapists, bodyworkers, and healers working across somatic, relational, and trauma informed disciplines.