SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Quality Care
Somatic Experiencing is a pioneering body awareness approach to working with trauma.
It focuses on experiencing the ‘felt sense’ in the present moment to help relieve the physical, emotional and physiological effects of post traumatic stress disorder as well as other stress and trauma-related health problems.
Somatic Experiencing offers a framework to observe where a person may be “stuck” or feels "incomplete" in the fight, flight or freeze response and provides tools to assist in resolving these fixated physiological states.
The SE approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses as well as the acknowledgment and completion of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms.
This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions while gently pacing the process so the individual can safely assimilate the changes within their nervous system without overwhelm.
Somatic Experiencing may help restore a sense of aliveness, relaxation and wholeness in the aftermath of trauma or after periods of chronic stress.