Somatic Therapy
“The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to know how the wind is blowing, you can look at the sand.”
My SOMATIC EXPERIENCING™ practice is a body-oriented approach to counseling that can include touch, movement, and dialogue to creates a space for individuals to be with and process trauma, emotions and life challenges. This practice was create by Peter Levine and based on the realization that human beings have an innate ability to overcome the effects of trauma and return to a greater sense of relaxation, and wholeness. Together, we work to support a more regulated nervous system where a person can feel embodied in the fullness of themselves.
Our bodies are constantly working to keep us alive, which sometimes means the body (in all of its best of intentions) locks away painful memories and experiences. These experiences, or traumas, stay locked in the nervous system and continue running the survival energies of fight, flight, and freeze until the nervous system is able to re-negotiate these experiences. To help facilitate this re-negotiation, I invite the client to track their sensations, images, impulses, and emotions that may arise as they speak and share their stories. Staying attuned to the sensations that arise in the present moment allows the body to integrate the survival energy associated with our life experiences, moving us back into a state of coherence. Navigating the dance of the nervous system is the key to resilience and healing.
TRANSFORMING THE EXPERIENCED-BASED BRAIN (TEB) is a touch-based practice (or intentional touch when used over telehealth) to support the healing of development trauma, including in utero and birth trauma, along with experiences that occur from infancy to 5 years of age. Trauma doesn’t have a time stamp, which means, for example, a childhood trauma could still be playing out in an adult nervous system. When this happens, it can cause symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, digestion issues, autoimmune disease, or a general sense of feeling stuck or “off.” Through this practice we support the nervous system towards building a sense of safety and predictability in the body.
My intension is for you to feel more at home in your body. I aim to bring you into contact with your own knowing. I am deeply respectful that each person knows intuitively what is best for them. It is my job to help you to find your way back to your intuition, which may lay under years or decades of hurt and unhelpful belief systems.
Clients I see present with issues such as, but not limited to: Anxiety/Depression/Mood concerns/Stress Chronic pain patterns/Accidents Auto-immune disorders Grief/Loss Low Self-Esteem/Emptiness Generational and Historical Trauma Trauma and PTSD Abuse/Domestic Violence Adult abused as child Mind-Body-Spirit disconnection
PLEASE REACH OUT FOR A FREE 20 MINUTE CONSULTATION TO DISCUSS IF SOMATIC THERAPY IS RIGHT FOR YOU