Join the Research

How do you want to join the research?

The experience is adapted to your role — choose below.

Research tool for body-oriented therapists

Body-based therapy reshapes
the nervous system
Can we track how?

Talk therapy has decades of outcome measures.

Somatic work has something harder to quantify: how the body holds stress differently, how the system begins to regulate, how resilience slowly grows.

We're building a tool that gives body-oriented therapists access to physiological patterns — a way to see nervous system change across the arc of therapy.

Join the research
Somatic therapist and client with wearable monitoring devices
Process

Steps of the research

A wearable runs quietly in the background. Participants complete brief check-ins throughout the day.

"Think of this as a research companion that observes natural rhythms of everyday life — helping us explore what the body may reveal beyond isolated moments and one-time assessments."
1
Your client gets a device
We provide a comfortable wearable for the research period. It runs quietly in the background — no setup, no extra work for your client.
2
Brief check-ins, a few times a day
SeCo prompts your client with short check-ins — where they are in the window of tolerance, what they notice in their body, what's happening in their day. It takes about a minute.
3
SeCo learns their individual pattern
Over time, the AI calibrates to each client. It learns what their baseline looks like, and what shifts. The longer the data runs, the more accurate the picture becomes.
4
You see the longitudinal view
Your dashboard shows how your client's nervous system has been behaving across the week, the month, the arc of therapy. Not a diagnosis — a pattern. One more layer of information to bring into your clinical judgment.
Example dashboard

A picture of change over time

An example of how SeCo translates physiological and self-report data into a longitudinal picture of change over time.

Example SeCo therapist dashboard showing autonomic risk profile, window of tolerance, and change over time

What the science supports

We use established physiological signals as proxies for autonomic state. The signals we work with are well-grounded in psychophysiology literature.

Heart rate (HR) & heart rate variability (HRV)
HRV reflects vagal tone and flexibility – how well the system can move between stress and rest.
Electrodermal activity (EDA)
EDA reflects sympathetic arousal – how "revved up" the system is.
Skin temperature
Peripheral temperature reflects vasoconstriction vs. vasodilation – are we in "threat" mode or "rest-and-digest"?
Respiration rate
Breathing speed changes with arousal and regulation – slower, more even breathing is linked to greater calm and higher HRV.
PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS HRV EDA Respiration

SeCo doesn't produce binary outputs. Every insight comes with an explicit confidence level — so you always know how much weight to give it. When signals are noisy or inconclusive, the model says so.

Nervous system visualised as a luminous tree with roots and branches

Get involved

A small group of somatic therapists and their clients. Six months of real data that shapes how SeCo develops.

For somatic therapists
Join as a research practitioner
You'll contribute your clinical perspective through brief post-session check-ins and occasional contact with our research team. No research background needed — but you do need to be a licensed mental health practitioner working somatically.
  • Brief check-in after each session (5 minutes or less)
  • Occasional updates and calls with the research team
  • 6-month research period
For individuals
Join as a research participant
If you're in somatic therapy — or about to start — you can join the study alongside your therapist. You'll wear a comfortable device we provide and complete brief daily check-ins about how you're feeling.

If you don't have a somatic therapist yet, we can connect you with a participating therapist in our network.
  • Wearing a wearable device (provided by us)
  • Brief daily check-ins — about a minute, a few times a day
  • 6-month research period