Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is a body-based approach that helps restore balance to the nervous system - especially after trauma, stress, or long periods of survival-mode living.
I specialize in working with folks who are living with the impacts of trauma - including specific events (like accidents, assaults, negative encounters with the medical system), and from cumulative experiences (such as activist or caregiver burnout) including navigating oppressive systems. Many of my clients arrive feeling anxious, exhausted, overwhelmed, disconnected, or numb.
Somatic work can look many ways. Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we pause and notice sensations, images, or emotions in the body. Sometimes we orient gently to the environment. I don’t ask people to force insights or re-live painful stories - we track what’s present, and follow what unfolds to create conditions where your system can remember what it already knows: how to flow, how to rest, how to reconnect.
My understanding is you are responding, in an adaptive way, to an overwhelming experience. Somatic therapy offers a space to listen to the signals coming through and begin to move with them in generative ways that align with the needs of the moment and how you want to show up.
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For more info please check out Somatic Experiencing International.
