I am in the Advanced year of the Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training Program and have a certificate in Process-Oriented Facilitation Training with David Bedrick. Read about these modalities below, which I weave into my current offerings.
I am currently seeing people on a sliding scale.
About Somatic Experiencing®
“…Human beings are born with the innate capacity, the inborn capacity to overcome trauma. I believe that trauma is not only curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening, a portal, a door, an opening to emotional and real spiritual transformation.”
– Peter Levine
Somatic Experiencing is a highly effective and empowering approach for becoming more relaxed and present in our lives, heartfully attuned to our deepest needs and yearnings, and with more capacity to show up for ourselves, others and the world at large.
About Process-Oriented Facilitation
Stemming from Arnie Mindell’s Process Work, Process-Oriented Facilitation is a non-shaming approach to creating more meaning, aliveness and sense of wholeness in our lives. It uses body/soma, movement/ dance, voice, dreamwork, role-play, shamanic interventions, and earth-based work to awaken and touch into our depths, and to reach into the heart of our struggles and suffering. Process-Oriented Facilitation is a beautiful approach to gain access into our deepest experiences, feelings, stories and meaning.
What is Somatic Experiencing®
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-centered therapeutic approach to healing from traumatic or overwhelming life situations and chronic stress. While traditional therapy tends to focus on story, thoughts and working with the brain to heal trauma (top down), Somatic Experiencing® believes that the body has an equally important role in healing trauma and chronic stress. This slow and gentle approach supports the body as it renegotiates the effects of trauma and stress which have become trapped within the physiology, bringing the nervous system back into healthy rhythms so that innate qualities such as self-trust, congruence, vitality, creativity, ease and aliveness are restored.
What does a session look like?
In Somatic Experiencing® we slow things down and focus on the “felt sense” (the body’s present-moment experience) to access the body’s memory of the trauma (rather than the mental story). We work in a gentle, titrated way, at the pace of your individual nervous system, to minimize the likelihood of re-traumatization. By taking an inward journey and gradually reconnecting with bodily sensations, feelings and making meaning of our experiences we can complete thwarted responses and release intense survival energies that have been keeping our nervous system in a state of hyperarousal (stress) or hypoarousal (collapse, freeze).
Read more about the Somatic Experiencing® approach here.
What can Somatic Experiencing® Address:
Symptoms resulting from trauma may look like:
· Anxiety
· Depression
· Addiction
· Numbness
· Chronic health issues
· Sleep disorders
· Relational difficulties
· A host of complex symptoms that do not often appear to make sense to the rational mind
Somatic Experiencing® can:
· Reset the nervous system
· Restore inner balance
· Enhance resilience to stress
· Increase vitality, equanimity and capacity to actively engage in life
“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.””
– Thich Nhat Hanh