What makes Somatic Experiencing different from talk therapy?

Sessions are collaborative and tailored to your unique needs. I step beyond recounting stories and into deep listening to the wisdom of your body and physiology. We use movement, sound, touch, image, meaning, and deep attunement to weave in a new thread to an old pattern. We might work with talking and insight, body awareness and sensation tracking, breathwork, dream exploration, active imagination, or supportive touch (with consent). I follow what wants to emerge in each session, honoring both the verbal and pre-verbal, the conscious and unconscious, the psychological and the somatic. The therapeutic container becomes a sacred space to compassionately witness and accompany you in the alchemical process of healing and growth.

The body doesn’t differentiate between real or imagined nor does it differentiate through time. This means it is possible to travel through time and actually rewrite some of the stories we lived through, this time with a different ending. We renegotiate past traumatic experiences, allow for completion in physiologic responses that did not get to happen, reintegrating these parts of self that have frozen in time. The result is a greater sense of aliveness and vitality and the activations and triggers that once threw you off no longer have the same power.