What is Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy?
Description
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy encompasses a wide range of approaches that are based on the principle that healing happens through our bodies' language of movement, breath, and sensation.
These approaches include:
• Somatic Experiencing
• Hakomi Method
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• Applied Polyvagal Theory
• Focusing, Dance/Movement Therapy
• Somatic Stress Release
• Internal Family Systems
• Somatic Attachment Theory
• Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Embodied Social Transformation
What can I expect in a session?
You will be offered techniques to sense and regulate your body and state of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper into the body, and given time and space to process trauma.
How can it help me?
Somatic Trauma Therapy can help you to:
• Restore the body as a place of safety while growing your capacity to process bodily memory
• Work through unprocessed emotions
• Complete incomplete stress responses
• Restore an optimal relationship to yourself and the world around you
Who is it for?
Anyone struggling with having experienced a disruption to the body-mind’s capacity to adapt, thrive, and flourish. You may or may not experience symptoms including:
Physical symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, tightness in the body, muscle tension, digestion challenges, and constrictions around the breath.
Emotional symptoms such as flatness / inability to feel, fear, anxiety, panic, overwhelm, loss of choice, difficulty feeling comforted, anger, and shame.
Psychological symptoms such as dissociation, mental rumination, low self worth, negative self talk, self blame, memory challenges, depression, and loss of interest in activities.
Relational / Social symptoms such as isolation, loneliness, relational and attachment reenactments.
“You will be offered techniques to sense and regulate your body and state of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper into the body, and given time and space to process trauma.”
