Trauma Healing in Somatic Therapy

We all have trauma in our nervous systems, whether we recognize it or not.

Trauma is NOT an event.

Trauma is what is left in your body, brain and mind after you have experienced overwhelm and could not heal it at the moment.

Trauma therapy is a big word right now in psychotherapy.

It is as if we all just decided it exists outside war, natural disasters, and horrific physical violence.

For example, let's say you grew up with an alcoholic parent.

This parent showed their addiction through violent actions and then drunken unconsciousness.

As a child, these behaviors were probably unpredictable, scary, and confusing.

Growing up, your nervous systems learned how to navigate the minefield that was your parent in its own particular way.

Maybe you cannot differentiate your feelings.

Perhaps you disassociated.

Maybe you learned how to numb yourself with substances very young or became very controlling about food, or have terrible anxiety and unexplained chronic pain.

Whatever you did, you managed the trauma left in your nervous system from the first time the body recognized your primary caregiver was unsafe.

These coping strategies saved your life, but we often find that they are not the strategies we want to use now as adults.

With this recognition, we can now start our trauma therapy.

In Somatic psychotherapy, we touch on our nervous system patterns, sensing our sensations, stillness, and visualizations.

By creating the mind-body connection, we now feel and see the patterns we use to cope in the present time continually.

We can now bring cognitive behavioral therapy with a new perspective and consciously make the shifts necessary to heal the trauma patterns.

Free consultations in Somatic therapy is always available.