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Therapy-Informed Nervous System Support, Healing Tools, and Coaching
Healing often makes sense in theory, but real life rarely gives you time to access it.
In everyday moments, the nervous system can take over through people-pleasing, freezing, or spiraling before coping tools come online.
Mental Nesting offers therapist-informed digital healing tools and gentle coaching for the space between therapy sessions.
These resources support nervous system regulation, self-trust, and emotional processing so healing feels safer, steadier, and actually usable in real life.
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MEET THE FOUNDER & CEO
i'm barb
I’m Barbara 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 comes 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. Especially between therapy sessions.
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 framework 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 in real life.
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 nervous system 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.
Therapy-informed 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 nervous system 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.
Staying with a feeling, rather than avoiding it, is one of the earliest signs of nervous system regulation and embodied healing.
These moments are where emotional regulation starts to become usable in real life, not just understood in theory.
HOMECOMING
Homecoming is a therapy-informed nervous system coaching program where you stop managing everything alone.
If you’re someone who can explain your emotional patterns but still collapse into them when it matters, this space offers steady nervous system guidance, weekly recalibration, and a grounded plan for emotional regulation in real-life moments.
This work is not about perfection. It is about building emotional stability and nervous system regulation that actually holds under pressure.
tHE NEST
The Nest is a free nervous system support community and your daily anchor point when life feels loud.
It’s for women who don’t just need tools, but presence. Through check-ins, connection, and steady community support, The Nest helps you practice new emotional patterns in real time, especially between therapy sessions.
If you heal best with gentle accountability, nervous system regulation, and community energy, this is where you’ll feel held.
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Private COMMUNITY MEMBER
Thank you. I truly appreciate being seen. This week has been difficult, and your message reminded me to keep going.
Feeling seen and supported during a difficult week is a powerful form of nervous system regulation.
Consistent emotional presence, even through simple messages or check-ins, helps reduce isolation, support emotional resilience, and create steadier responses between therapy sessions.
DIGITAL TOOLS
Therapy-informed digital tools for nervous system regulation, all in one place.
These journals, prompt decks, and guided resources are designed for women who want clear structure without losing softness, especially in moments when emotions feel overwhelming.
Each digital product supports nervous system regulation, grounding, and emotional clarity, helping you pause, reset, and respond more intentionally, no matter where you are or what your day looks like.
PODCAST
A therapy-informed mental health podcast grounded in real life, not platitudes.
This podcast is where honest conversations about healing, relationships, nervous system regulation, and emotional patterns actually happen. Episodes are raw, reflective, and rooted in lived experience, not advice you already know but can’t use.
Each episode offers language for what you’re feeling, emotional clarity, and the kind of gentle truth-telling therapy-experienced women crave when they want understanding, not fixing.
If you want support you can carry with you between sessions, start here.
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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
Nervous System Coaching – A Comprehensive Guide for Therapy‑Experienced Adults
What is nervous system coaching? Learn how it differs from therapy and why it helps therapy-experienced, sensitive adults move from insight to embodiment, regulate their nervous system, and respond di... ...more
Nervous System
February 03, 2026•11 min read
Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System: Physical, Emotional, and Behavioral Symptoms
Learn the signs of a dysregulated nervous system, including physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms. Understand stress responses, hyper-arousal, shutdown, and how regulation begins. ...more
Nervous System
January 19, 2026•8 min read
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
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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 how your history shapes what feels safe, activating, or overwhelming when help is offered.
NAME WHAT YOUR BODY IS DOING
Move from confusion or self-blame to clear, compassionate 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 may not work for you and what tends to feel more regulating for your nervous system instead.
BUILD SELF-TRUST WITHOUT FIXING
Gain insight without pressure to change, improve, or perform. This is about understanding your patterns so you can respond with clarity, not override yourself.
FIND A NEXT STEP THAT FITS
See gentle support options 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 therapy-informed mental health newsletter where I share honest reflections, gentle nervous system support, new offerings, and simple grounding tools you can use in real life.
Think of it as a soft check-in between sessions, written for sensitive, therapy-experienced women who want to stay connected to themselves without pressure to fix or perform.
Quiet. Grounded. Sent with care.
