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What is Somatic Experiencing®?

The scientific approach to healing through the body

Somatic Experiencing ® (SE) works on the nervous system which connects the brain and the body. Awareness of the sensations in the body gives access to the nervous system and the body’s natural healing powers to resolve trauma, shock, and stress related disorders. SE focuses on your body’s natural rhythm to complete stuck actions to resolve trauma and stress, allowing the body’s system to self-organise.

Humans like all living systems in nature have an innate wisdom to process trauma acquired through evolution and life wants to flourish through us. SE is a therapy that can tap into this wisdom through the nervous system to transform you into a harmonised and embodied self, with connection to others.

Is it difficult to see your life beyond a past or ongoing event and you can not move forward without the heavy feeling?

An experienced trauma therapist who has worked with individuals to heal trauma and release pent-up stress and tension, reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, manage chronic pain, improve self-regulation, and enhance overall well-being.

Somatic Experiencing can be beneficial for individuals struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex-PTSD (CPTSD) among many other stress and trauma related illnesses. Somatic Experiencing helps individuals release pent-up energy from the traumatic event and re-regulate their nervous system through gentle guidance and attention to bodily sensations. This approach resolves PTSD symptoms such as hypervigilance, flashbacks, anxiety, and many other symptoms.

Safely process traumatic experiences and develop resilience and empowerment.

The SE Approach

SE is developed by Dr Peter Levine who has worked with stress disorders and trauma for over 45 years of successful clinical application. Dr Peter Levine developed SE through the multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics.

SE is based on the same regulatory and stress discharge mechanisms that humans have as mammals do in the wild. Through the careful study of the mammalian world in the wild who are granted the wisdom by nature to overcome trauma on a regular basis we too can access this wisdom and energy to recover that part of us that has become disconnected to itself, and become in touch with our bodies again.

The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of early emotional and early developmental attachment trauma, or a specific traumatic event. SE works with the nervous system and therefore has a variety of approaches.

To become whole (to heal) it is essential to work on the entire organism, or the somatic being - the mind, soul, and the body.

Book a free consultation call and a SE session to start your healing journey!

Trauma is held in the body and not in the event
— Dr Peter Levine

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