Therapist-Informed • Coaching + Healing Tools
YOU ARE NOT
too much HERE
Healing often makes sense in theory, but real life can feel different. In everyday moments, the nervous system can take over with people-pleasing, freezing, or spiraling before support tools are accessible.
Mental Nesting offers therapist-informed digital healing tools and gentle coaching designed for the space between sessions. These resources support nervous system regulation, self-trust, and emotional processing so healing can feel safer, steadier, and more livable.
MEET THE FOUNDER & CEO
I'm Barb
I’m Barb Guimarães – a licensed therapist (LMSW) and nervous-system nerd who’s personally lived through the “I know it but I can’t do it” cycle.
Everything I teach and build come from two places: my clinical training and the real-life tools I had to develop when my own body kept shutting down faster than my mind could keep up.
I’ve been where you are, and I’m proof that with the right support, it does get better.
Licensed Master Social Worker specializing in trauma + nervous-system responses
Advanced training in Polyvagal Theory (nervous system-based care) and trauma-informed care
Developed the Homecoming for real-time nervous-system support
Supported hundreds of women through high-intensity emotional patterns
the work
Where Healing
Begins
My signature offerings blend clinical training with lived experience to help you understand your patterns and actually shift them.
If you’re ready for support that feels clear, grounding, and doable, start here.
01. COACHING
Weekly support for women who already know their patterns but still get pulled under by them.
Homecoming gives you clear tools, real-time guidance, and grounded accountability so you stop spiraling alone and start responding with confidence.
02. DIGITAL TOOLS
Straightforward tools for the moments therapy doesn’t catch.
Journals, decks, and guides built to help you regulate, get clear, and shift your patterns without the overwhelm.
03. THE NEST
A community built for women who need steady support between sessions.
Daily touchpoints, emotional guidance, and a grounded space to practice the changes you’re trying to make in real life.
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Private COMMUNITY MEMBER
Today I’m grateful that I let myself actually feel things instead of hiding them — even though it’s tempting. I chose to sit with it for a moment, and that is hard.
Letting yourself stay with a feeling (instead of abandoning yourself) is one of the earliest signs of embodied practice.
HOMECOMING
Homecoming is where you stop managing everything alone.
If you’re someone who can explain your patterns but still collapse into them when it matters,
this space gives you steady guidance, weekly recalibration, and a grounded plan
for the moments you usually spiral.
It’s not about perfection — it’s about building emotional stability that actually holds under pressure.
THE NEST
The Nest is your daily anchor point — a place to land when life feels loud.
It’s for women who don’t just need tools, but presence: check-ins, connection,
and steady support to practice new patterns in real time.
If you heal best with gentle accountability and community energy, this is where you’ll feel held.
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community member
Thank you. I truly appreciate being seen. This week has been difficult, and your message reminded me to keep going.
DIGITAL TOOLS
Your healing tools, all in one place.
These journals, decks, and guides are built for women who want clear structure without losing softness.
Every product is intentionally designed to help you pause, regulate,
and get grounded — no matter where you are or what your day looks like.
PODCAST
The podcast is where the real conversations happen — raw, honest, and grounded in lived experience.
Each episode gives you clarity, language for your feelings, and the kind of
gentle truth-telling therapy-experienced women crave.
If you want support you can carry with you, start here.
emotional home
HEAR IT FROM community members
SOME kind WORDS
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I joined this community because I’ve never felt understood by anyone. And I always felt like I had no one to talk to.
Wow. Thank you for this. My phone lit up with your notification as I was watching a movie that was quite triggering for me… I needed that moment, that break.
I just want to say thank you for having this space. It’s been helping a lot.
WORDS from
BARB
How to Heal and Reset a Dysregulated Nervous System: Evidence‑Based Practices, Lifestyle Changes and FAQs
Learn what causes a dysregulated nervous system, recognise the signs and discover evidence‑based therapies, lifestyle practices and trauma‑specific approaches to reset your nervous system and build lo... ...more
Nervous System
January 02, 2026•13 min read
What Are Inner Child Wounds? (And Why They're Not Your Fault)
What are inner child wounds? A licensed therapist's honest take on emotional injuries from childhood—and why healing your sensitivity isn't your fault. ...more
Inner Child Healing
December 23, 2025•5 min read
A GIFT FOR YOU
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What Did Your Nervous System Learn About Support?
UNDERSTAND YOUR SUPPORT PATTERN
Learn how your nervous system learned to relate to support and why asking for help can feel calming, overwhelming, or unsafe depending on your history.
NAME WHAT YOUR BODY IS DOING
Move from confusion or self-blame to clear language about what’s actually happening in your body when support shows up or disappears.
STOP USING THE WRONG TOOLS
Understand why advice and coping tools that work for other people might not work for you and what tends to feel more regulating instead.
BUILD SELF-TRUST WITHOUT FIXING
Gain insight without pressure to change, improve, or perform. This is about understanding your patterns, not overriding them.
FIND A NEXT STEP THAT FITS
See gentle options for support that match your nervous system, whether that’s a free place to land or deeper guided work.
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Soft Notes to you
A quiet corner of the internet where I share honest reflections, new offerings, and simple grounding tools. Think of it as a soft check-in from someone who gets it.
