Somatic Touch

One optional choice in working with trauma, is a Somatic Touch approach.

 

Somatic Touch Therapy is a body-based approach developed as part of the Somatic Experiencing training by Dr Peter Levine, Trauma Therapy Institute, for working with the effects of trauma in the body. 

 

Somatic Touch sessions help to reset the nervous system's fight/flight/freeze responses that may be ever present or too easily triggered as a result of past/current stress or trauma. 

 

Sessions help you to more easily 'shift gears' from an activated, triggered state, down to a calmer/ more regulated state - helping you move from a state of fear or unrest to a baseline sense of safety. 

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When can Somatic Touch Therapy sessions help?

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• When you struggle to feel calm and regulated in your body, often feeling activated or overwhelmed

• When you are triggered into activation at a higher level than a 'typical' response level would be for what has occured

• When you feel disconnected from your body or there is fear about coming into relationship with your body due to past experiences, and you need support to move past this

• When stress or trauma manifests as physical symptoms causing you pain and discomfort

• When you have worked with 'talk therapy' approaches and have had limited success in resolving your issue