What is Somatic Therapy?

The gift of Somatic therapy is that places of long-held trauma in your body are recognized safely and released.

What does this mean?

When clients come in and tell stories, there are always moments where emotions come to the surface.

At this moment, I ask you to stop and breathe deeply from your belly.

As we sit together in this quiet, I ask you to be curious about the sensations you are noticing in your body.

You might say I have something in my stomach.

What is it?

Is it weight, queasiness, butterflies, tightness?

You reply it is a stone about as big as a brick and dark brown.

As you calmly sit with this uncomfortable sensation, I then ask what emotion it feels like you are holding.

Fear you reply.

Fear of what? I ask.

Fear of failure.

How are you failing? I ask.

Above is the process of uncovering the trauma in your body.

The process continues, continuously checking in with sensation and avoiding the analytical mind.

The imprint of failure began somewhere and is living in your nervous systems and mind.

The process of mind-body connection brings everything to the surface in a safe and tolerable way to be felt, understood, and shifted.

There is never a valid negative imprint; they are all untrue.

The gift of this work is when you feel the imprint be recognized, held briefly, and shift because it knows it no longer belongs.

What are you holding?

What are your imprints?

Do you think you are stupid? Lazy? Mean? Unloveable?Not worthy?

Come in and uncover these moments you have been holding and let them go.

Consultations are always free.