Integrative Somatic Therapy
Healing trauma through body-centered therapy
Integrative Somatic Therapy
In this holistic framework, I implement attachment theory, neuroscience, somatic techniques and practices that support nervous system regulation, attachment healing, and trauma resolution. Through this body-centered approach, you will gain deeper connections, a fuller understanding of the body’s relationship with developmental, relational, social, environmental, spiritual, and cultural rupture & repair.
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma and other stress-related disorders. SE™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. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been helping individuals find release and healing from trauma & stress for more than four decades.
Somatic Touch
Informed by my SE™ advanced training and Somatic Touch Skills by Kathy L. Kain, I implement tactile skills, somatic awareness, and other touch-related skills for the purpose of supporting nervous system regulation and resolving trauma. Touch is an extremely effective way to connect with your nervous system, and SE™ Touch work is an important aspect of the three year SE™ training.
In a session, you can expect to be encouraged verbally and/or through light touch to become present in your body, and to simply notice the presence of, and any changes to sensations, thoughts, feelings, images, or any way in which you experience yourself. As I observe and facilitate physical nervous system responses, you are able to gradually develop an increasing tolerance for challenging bodily sensations and suppressed emotions. The discharge process that has been suppressed often for years can be completed, integrated, bringing restoration and health to the body.
“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
~ Peter A. Levine
