SOMATIC THERAPY

Learn to listen to your body so that you can give it the support it needs to metabolize stress, anxiety and trauma.

The Somatic Experiencing method is a naturalistic and neurobiological bodyoriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders.

The SE approach releases traumatic shock and restores connection, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.

It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states to restore the authentic self with self-regulation, relaxation, wholeness, and aliveness.

Compared to talk therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE) tries to not only give space to our cognitive thinking, but also pay attention to body sensations, emotions, as well as the connection between the two.

We also include the language of your body: we want to see what can emerge when we allow the more subconscious impulses of your body to direct where we are going in the session.

We allow your body to join the conversation, so sessions are less about 'understanding' something, and more about 'experiencing' your self more fully.

We provide a somatic counterbalance to many modes of being in the western world, where only our brains take center stage in our decision and sense making.

We welcome a topic you want to explore, while also giving space to see what emerges when we are just 'here' together.

We explore mostly through conversation. Movement and self-touch can be included, if you like.

We expand the capacity of your autonomous nervous system to activate, down-regulate, as well as contain activation when it emerges.

WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE:

• Expanding the foundational body awareness that supports further, deeper explorations

• What it means to be 'here', and what keeps you from being 'here'

• What it means to 'rest', and what keeps you from resting

• Mapping the 'now'

  • somatically mapping all that is currently moving you and bringing what you might already 'know' into the lived experience, to allow the nervous system to settle.

• Exploring boundaries

• Your relationship with your emotions:

  • are there emotions that are too dominating?

  • are there emotions that are difficult to access?

• Processing past or present difficult situations that are still affecting you:

  • by creating new lived experiences that can act as counterbalance

  • especially in the face of oppression, when things are never ‘fine’, but ongoing, we can at least stabilize our nervous systems by temporarily finding just a little bit more ease, providing more space, agency and wider vision

Please note that, contrary to general believe, more subtle/'surface' explorations can be as impactful as 'deeper'/cathartic explorations.

A lot of this work is about rewiring your autonomous nervous system, and this can often happen more easily when you are not at the edge of what your nervous system can 'hold'.

DETAILS

👥  6x private 60-Minute Somatic Therapy Sessions // All sessions are facilitated via video call (Zoom) at an ideal time for both of us and you receive the recordings afterwards.

🤝 Fee // The total fee for my Somatic Therapy program including 6 sessions is:

• $1.800 USD

• or payment plan: 3x $600

FIRST STEP: LET’S CHAT

I offer a free 30-minute introductory call to get to know each other, answer any of your questions and make sure what I've got is a good fit for your needs. ​From there we can schedule your first official session.

To set up a free 30-minute Zoom introductory call to discuss working together, fill out this application first: