Somatic Psychotherapy New York City
310 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10025
Somatic Experiencing
- Somatic Experiencing is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. It is both a profound and effective method of healing trauma.
- When people experience trauma, the body freezes in time in a highly activated, incomplete biological response.
- It's like a snapshot of our unsuccessful attempt to defend ourselves in the face of threat, injury and loss.
- The body stores trauma, which is why it's so valuable to work somatically as well as with language, insight and meaning.
- When we're unable to discharge the energy created to let us fight or flee, the energy becomes stuck in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness or collapse. We can get caught in an over-activated or under-activated state, causing a wide range of symptoms.
- Developed by Peter Levine, author of "Waking the Tiger", Somatic Experiencing (SE) helps people find new, empowered body experiences to contradict the patterns established by trauma.
- SE uses education and awareness of the body's sensations to help find again the body's natural rhythm, inner regulation and wholeness.
- One returns to a state of empowerment, harmony and compassion.