SOMATIC TRAUMA HEALING
Build resilience through returning to the wisdom of your body, thereby allowing you to move through deep discomfort without overwhelm.
(RE)CONNECT WITH YOUR BODY
Somatic therapy can help you release stress, tension, and trauma. Through sensations, movement, mindfulness, and breath, you can learn to be more present, access more capacity, and trust your inner resilience. The mind and body are interconnected, meaning that you’ll experience an integrative approach to healing that goes beyond traditional talk therapy.
Is this you?
you’ve experienced trauma and you feel disconnected from yourself and others. you might FEEL:
Confused about your emotions
Out of control, panicked, or stuck in tunnel vision
Dissociated
Unsure of what’s going on in your body
A constant sense of urgency, or desire to fight or flee in everyday situations
Easily agitated or irritable, even with loved ones
Hypervigilant, or on high alert for perceived threats
Overwhelmed with nightmares or emotional flashbacks
Scared of what might happen if you revisit the trauma
Worried that there’s just “too much” to tolerate
Unsafe with your feelings
Frozen in the traumatic event
trauma & the body
Try as we might, we cannot think our way out of trauma. Trauma came in through the body and, with guidance, it can find its way through the body. When we experience trauma, our usual ways of connecting with our bodies get disrupted. It’s like having a map that suddenly has missing or obscured parts. Somatic therapy can help calm your body and prepare your brain for trauma healing. We can be guided into our inner wisdom by returning to the first ways we experience ourselves and the world—through sensation, breath, movement, and touch.
“IT’S THROUGH OUR BODIES THAT WE EXPERIENCE AND ENGAGE LIFE, AND IT’S IN OUR BODIES THAT WE HEAL.”
Prentis Hemphill
with somatic work, we’ll…
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Calm your body through a combination of mindfulness, breathwork, grounding skills, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). We will spend as much time needed to create trust in the body. It’s your process—you get to set the pace and choose how we approach the tough emotions. With IFS specifically, we will explore any parts that express themselves through the body.
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Build tolerance to be with your emotions and their accompanying sensations by practicing being with them without trying to change them. I’ll use body-based language to facilitate getting out of your head and into your body, e.g., anger felt as a hot tightness in your throat, sadness as a heavy stone in the stomach, or fear as an icy chill just beneath the skin.
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Process the trauma or other negative experiences in both body-based and cognitive ways while checking in about your capacity so as to not become overwhelmed. Safety and consent are integral pieces to trauma processing. For interested clients who are appropriate candidates, I’ll offer EMDR therapy as a way to process the trauma, while still using somatic techniques.
SOMATIC WORK CAN HELP YOU:
Identify and describe bodily sensations
Understand the impact of the trauma and chronic stress
Release tension and overwhelm
Identify your feelings and unresolved conflicts
Identify triggers and moments of dissociation
Make more intentional decisions
Identify and set boundaries
Slow down racing thoughts
Increase connection with yourself and others
Strengthen your internal resources
Integrate the trauma into a more cohesive experience with new meaning
“Healing is a reminder of what we already are and what we have always been part of.”
Resmaa Menakem
uncover the resilience of your body
Book your 20 minute consultation video call and I will get back to you within 2-3 working days.