Somatic Psychotherapy

Soma=body, somatic=of the body

Many of us have a tendency to get anxious, or to numb or freeze when faced with a profound challenge like illness or trauma, and for good reason. But Somatic Psychotherapy (also known as Body-Centered Psychotherapy) can help you navigate the underworld of your challenge fully awake, so that you can harvest the medicine hidden in its depths.

The potential for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health is held in your tissues. By becoming intimate with who you are, compassionately facing your limiting beliefs, unwinding your nervous system from past trauma, and unleashing the power hidden in your suffering, you can learn how to joyfully inhabit your life, regardless of your symptoms.

With advanced training in Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution, and Douglas Brady’s the Psychology of Symptoms, I utilize mindfulness, deep imagery, felt-sense awareness, somatic trauma resolution, intuitive tracking skills, and a transpersonal world view to help you to live a more authentic and empowered life.

Somatic (Body-Centered) Psychotherapy Helps You To:

• Be present and compassionate with yourself
• Trust yourself and build confidence
• Release Trauma from your nervous system and body
• Increase your satisfaction with your relationships and life
• Re-frame and heal a difficult transition or illness
• Grow your vitality
• Practice living from your core
• Transform limiting core beliefs
• Develop and implement healthy boundaries
• Embody new, enlivening ways of being in the world
• Step into the next level of your spiritual evolution
• Become more vital, empowered, and whole

The body never lies and it’s often our greatest teacher. Body-Centered Psychotherapy can help you shift from  struggle to full embodiment of who you are and what you are here to do.

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More About Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine is an elegant form of gentle Trauma Resolution. Unlike other forms of trauma healing, SE works with the belief that you do not have to suffer in order to heal. With Somatic Experiencing (SE), your body and your nervous system are our guides. When we experience overwhelming circumstances (car accidents, illnesses, falls, assaults, surgeries, relational trauma), our bodies often don’t have the time or freedom to complete basic physiological responses.  While our body may have wanted to run, to fight, or to move in a certain way to protect us, we might not have had the opportunity (or it may not have been safe) to do so.  So energy that got mobilized to move us in a certain way often gets stuck in our bodies and in our psyches as well. This can lead to a whole host of symptoms including anxiety, sleep disturbances, anger and irritability, depression, muscle aches and pains, and even more serious disorders such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. With Somatic Experiencing I help my clients to locate, explore, and, with support, gently release, or discharge, that stuck energy, so that it can stop showing up as symptoms. The bottom line is that you feel better.

More About Hakomi

Developed by Ron Kurtz, the Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy is a compassionate, gentle, and effective approach to psychotherapy. Hakomi is based on the principals of non-violence (meaning, honoring the way your system is organized), mind-body-spirit holism (honoring all of who you are), organicity (trusting that your system has a natural intelligence), unity (utilizing a transpersonal, soul-centered perspective), and mindfulness (utilizing present moment, sensation-based awareness to support change). Hakomi is particularly helpful in helping those with chronic illness to shift the unconscious patterns limiting their healing.

More about the Psychology of Symptoms:

We all have numerous Selves, or sub-personalities living inside of us. There’s the Pusher, the Critic, the Wild Child, the Caretaker, the Warrior, the Lover and many, many others. When these Selves begin to run us unconsciously, or when we push them under the surface of our psyches into the shadow realms, they can show up as symptoms and reek havoc on our lives. Based on Hal and Sidra Stone’s Voice Dialogue, the Psychology of Symptoms work (developed and taught by Douglas Brady) helps the client unleash the energetic healing potential bound up in symptoms and disowned shadow Selves.

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Payment options: 1 session, regular price $100

5 sessions: $475 ($95 per session, save $25)

10 sessions: $900 ($90 per session, save $100)

After you have completed your payment, please call  720-771-4778 to schedule.

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