Reconnect to your body, mind, and relationships — from the inside out.

Meet Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, RSME/T, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Somatic Therapist based in Atlanta, GA

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Food and body struggles or painful parenting patterns can leave you feeling overwhelmed instead of energized, connected, and tuned in.

Rather than seeing these struggles as problems to fix or behaviors to control, I see them as invitations to reconnect with your body’s wisdom—and to explore what may be asking for care, attention, and understanding.

You may feel at home in this work if…

  • You’re tired of the shame, fear, or rigidity surrounding food and your body. Dieting may keep pulling you back in, and you’re ready for something more sustainable than forcing yourself into a smaller version of your life.

  • You may find yourself reacting in ways you don’t want to, worrying about your child’s well-being, or fearing you’re repeating patterns from your own upbringing.

  • You sense that anxiety, depression, or long-standing patterns need deeper support—and you’re open to a compassionate, body-based approach to change.

Therapy with me weaves together symbolism, science, and skills for deep nourishment.

Together we explore your concerns with curiosity and compassion while integrating body-based practices that support your nervous system and help you feel more grounded, connected, and alive.

  • Transform Symptoms into Meaning

    Patterns with food, exercise, or even imagined escape can begin to take on a life of their own. The rituals, stories, and symbols you return to for comfort or safety can also serve as meaningful entry points into your inner world.

    Rather than focusing on eliminating symptoms or enforcing compliance, we approach these patterns with curiosity and care. Through conversation, movement, creative expression, and reflective practices, we explore how these experiences can shift from something you fight against into something that guides you back toward yourself.

  • Healing involves more than “calming down” or meeting external expectations. Your body has its own rhythms, needs, and ways of expressing itself.

    Through relational, science-informed, and invitational practices, you begin to reconnect with your own cues. This process supports co-regulation—feeling supported in connection—which gradually builds your capacity for self-regulation.

    As this foundation strengthens, you may find it easier to nourish yourself, connect with others without losing yourself, and move through life with more presence, confidence, and flexibility.

  • Attachment-Based Somatic Practices

    Patterns in food, body image, parenting, and relationships often reflect how you learned to navigate big feelings early in life.

    In this work, your body—not just your thoughts—has the opportunity to experience new patterns. Through somatic practices and gentle exploration of developmental movement, you can access qualities like curiosity, play, ease, and healthy risk-taking.

    These experiences support more integrated nervous system functioning, deeper connection, and greater capacity for change.

Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RSME/T, somatic therapy Atlanta, Intuitive Eating, Polyvagal Theory, Nervous System Regulation, Non-diet, Movement Therapy, Eating Disorder Therapy Atlanta

Methods

  • A relational, body-based approach that explores how early patterns of connection and individuation live on in your nervous system, movement patterns and sense of self. Through invitational somatic practices and reflective dialogue, your body can begin to experience new patterns of safety, connection, and vitality.

  • A non-diet, trauma-sensitive approach to developing a more attuned relationship with food, your body, and your daily rhythms. This process supports self-discovery and helps you reconnect with your ability to nourish yourself in ways that feel sustainable and supportive.


What if it could finally feel safe for more of you to show up?

Healing from disordered eating, navigating parenting challenges, or reconnecting with your core self all require humility, courage, and support.

Alongside conversation and psychoeducation, a relational, somatic approach creates opportunities for change that go beyond insight alone.

Together, we work toward restoring your appetite for life—the grounded, satisfying kind that allows you to feel more fully alive and connected to what matters most.

When I was in college, immersed in diet culture and performance-driven expectations, a teacher shared something that stayed with me:

“You have to want to know your own truth more than making others happy or shaping yourself into someone you were never meant to be.”

At the time, I was deeply entangled in dieting, people-pleasing, and striving. Untangling those patterns through therapy, movement, and personal exploration became a meaningful part of my own journey.

With decades of experience as a movement educator, advanced clinical trauma training, and work across multiple levels of eating disorder care, I bring both professional depth and lived understanding to this work.

Alongside my ongoing interest in early feeding and attachment—and the lived experience of raising three children—I continue to feel passionate about helping others reconnect with their deeper hungers and their body’s wisdom.

I aim to offer a presence that is steady, patient, and attuned—because the therapeutic relationship itself can be a powerful foundation for healing.

Rather than offering a prescriptive plan, I invite collaboration. Your insight, your pace, and your lived experience are central to the process.

This is a non-shaming, inclusive space—one where you don’t need to be fixed, but supported in discovering more of who you are.

Specialties

Credentials

    • Licensed Professional Counselor, Georgia LPC #012709

    • M.S. Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Georgia State University - Atlanta, Georgia

    • B.A., Major: Journalism, Cognate: Women's Studies and Theatre Speech - University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC

    • Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor - The Original Intuitive Eating Pros

    • Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist — ISMETA, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association

    • Chi for Two® Embodiment Coach, Trainer & Co-Developer

    • Embodying the Autonomic Nervous System – Body-Mind Centering®

    • Advanced Perinatal Mental Health certificate – Postpartum Support International

    • 300+ hours Registered Yoga Teacher – Yoga Alliance

    • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

  • ·      The Therapeutic Dance of Intuitive Eating: Relational Somatic Practices to Support the Biology of Co-regulation and Digestive Functioning

    ·      Chi for Two - Polyvagal-informed Multi-generational Trauma Healing (3 CEs) LPCAGA conference – Savannah, GA                                                                              

    ·      Polyvagal Bites: A 3-Course Series Celebrating Oppositional Movement as the Path to Satisfying Hunger (9CEs, LPCA) – Stone Mtn, GA                                                                                 

    ·      M-Bodied Nourishment: Chi for Two Co-regulation Practices for Professionals Working with Disordered Eating (9CEs, LCPA) – virtual                                                    

    ·      How to Become Sport Nutrition & Exercise Intuitive During Recovery – Renfrew Conference                       

    ·      The Ethical Pairing of Psychotherapy with Body-based Therapies & Practices (6 CEs, LPCA) – virtual        

    ·      Mindful Movement for the Treatment of Eating Disorders (3 CEs) Southern Yoga Therapy Association – Decatur, GA      

    ·      Dealing with Overexercise and Exercise Resistance While Integrating aFueling and Mindful Movement Message – International Association for Eating Disorders Professionals symposium – Orlando, FL & Southeastern Eating Disorders (SEEDS) conference – Destin, FL          

When struggles with food, body image, or parenting patterns linger, it can feel exhausting and confusing.
You may sense that something deeper is asking for attention — even if words can’t fully explain it yet.


Therapy offers a space to listen to those signals and begin reconnecting with your body, your relationships, and your sense of self.

You deserve to feel nourished and connected—in your body, your relationships, and your life.

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Why the Name M-Bodied?

M-Bodied® stands for Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®—an approach that supports reconnection with your body’s capacity for nourishment, safety, and connection.

This work weaves together attachment science, nervous system research, and relational, developmental somatic practices to support healing from the inside out.

Here, “mothering” is understood as a relational capacity—not a gender role. It reflects the human ability to nurture, attune, and support growth within ourselves and in relationship with others.

Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RSME/T, somatic therapy Atlanta, Intuitive Eating, Polyvagal Theory, Nervous System Regulation, Non-diet, Movement Therapy, Eating Disorder Therapy Atlanta
Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RSME/T, somatic therapy Atlanta, Intuitive Eating, Polyvagal Theory, Nervous System Regulation, Non-diet, Movement Therapy, Eating Disorder Therapy Atlanta

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

-Marion Woodman, Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women's movement figure