Somatic Therapy
You..
You might be walking around disconnected from your inner experience
You might have shut down on your wisdom, body, voice or intuition.
The unresolved stories of your past still continue to repeat in the present, keeping you disconnected from your deepest, wisest self.
You feel that your life energy is trapped and your light is buried and dim.
Learn more about somatic therapy
Somatic therapy- the basics
It is a common experience for many to believe that rationality and deciding what we want are functions emanating from our head. However, our experience is located in the body, of which the head is only a part. As the saying goes, “your mind is hooked up to your physiology”.
What is somatic therapy?
Somatic therapy is an integrative approach to therapy that believes that what happens to you in your life is stored not only in your mind but also in your body. It believes in the deep connection of the mind and the body and views the body as a map of your psyche. By addressing both the psychological and physiological aspects, somatic-based therapy aims to achieve a more comprehensive and lasting therapeutic impact.
How does somatic therapy help?
Staying in touch with the body is being in touch with a deeper knowing.
Psychic and emotional trauma impacts your nervous system
Talk therapy mainly focuses on your thoughts and emotions. Somatic therapy, also pays attention to how your body and the nervous system are affected by trauma. Helping clients notice and follow these changes aids in bettering their inner experiences.
Somatic Therapy Helps Release Traumatic Energy
Trauma is considered experiencing an event that was either too much or too little for you to deal with. It affects your mind—and gets “stuck” in your body. Trauma negatively impacts your nervous system functioning leading to emotional difficulties, relational difficulties, or illnesses. Practicing body awareness, grounding and self-regulation skills makes the healing process more effective.
Somatic Approach to Healing Reduces Uncomfortable Emotions of Anxiety and Depression
When your nervous system is more in balance, you will be more regulated, which means you’ll more often feel both calm and alert, you will be less reactive , and you gradually, with practice and awareness, will develop the capacity to tolerate strong emotions and strong reactions without getting overwhelmed..
The Body Always Lives in the Present. Change Can Happen Only in Present Time.
As a highly sensitive organism your body only lives in the present time. Somatic therapy often involves being mindful, which means paying attention to what’s happening in your body and mind in the now, without judgment.
A Somatic Integrative Approach Supports Emotional Regulation
Sometimes, emotions can feel overwhelming, like a wave crashing over you. Somatic therapy teaches you how to regulate or manage these emotions better by understanding the physical sensations and physiological shifts that come with them.
Improves Connection to Your Body- Encourages Self Care and Well Being
In today’s world, it’s easy to feel disconnected from your body—especially if you’re always busy or stressed. Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body, making you more aware of how you feel physically and emotionally.
Offers a Different Approach When Talk Therapy Isn’t Enough-
For some people, just talking about their problems isn’t enough to create change. Somatic therapy offers a different approach to help you work through your issues and more importantly, regulate your nervous system so you can develop more resiliency.
The more you stay connected to your somatic experience, the more you can reorient when things are difficult, return to the source of resilience inside and emanate that into your world.
Supports Long-Term Healing, Not Just Coping-
Better regulation leads to resilience. Your system learns how to come back to balance naturally. Somatic therapy doesn’t just focus on short-term relief. It aims to help you heal in the long term by focusing on nervous system regulation and healing This makes somatic therapy a powerful approach for lasting change.
But besides…we also talk
As an integrated approach to healing, we focus both on verbally discussing your difficulties and concerns and its expression through the body and its physiology.
What is the major difference between somatic approach and talk therapy
Most people are familiar with talk therapy which is widely practiced. In talk therapy you are connecting with the newest parts of your brains “the pre- frontal lobe” which is your thinking brain.
However, when you experience overwhelm or anxiety, that part of the brain shuts down. In somatic therapy or psychotherapy we are aware and work with not only the prefrontal cortex (your thinking brain), but also with two other parts: the limbic system and the brain stem. Those two primitive parts do not use language but rather respond more to body sensations and other right brain interventions.
These two parts of the brain play a HUGE role in where your anxiety and trauma is stored and how to release it. Traumatic events trigger more primitive parts of the brain.
My method
My Method is a blend of somatic, body-centered, relational therapies, ancient wisdom, touch therapy, nervous system healing, self awareness practices and the art of embodiment.
I love to work with people who seek a deeper connection with themselves by helping them connect more deeply with their wisdom.
My Method is founded on my 35 years of experience in the field of wellness especially as a mindbody therapist. I employ a mix of holistic models of therapy that I have fused together to help you awaken to your own inner wisdom and inner resources and help your transition from trauma to triumph.
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