Somatic Therapy
Attend, listen, and explore
What is Somatic/Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?
Sensorimotor psychotherapy (a form of somatic therapy) recognizes that both physical and emotional experiences throughout our lifetime are held in the body and, just as the mind creates habits of thinking, the body also holds patterns of musculature and movement that corresponds to our experiences over time. SP honors the unspoken language of the body as a source of wisdom that can be utilized to foster healing and to restore wholeness. As a result, this approach can offer insight beyond what traditional talk therapy alone can achieve.
If you are someone healing from trauma, have experienced past childhood trauma and/or attachment wounds, or just feeling “stuck” in traditional talk therapy, wanting to understand unhelpful patterns in your life, this approach may be helpful to you.
What does Somatic/Sensorimotor Psychotherapy look like?
Somatic therapy is a way of mindfully attending to the body through curious and non-judgmental observation of body sensations, postural shifts or holding, muscular tension, and/or movements. While each client has different needs and goals in therapy, interventions can range from gentle awareness of breath, guided exploration of body sensations as they arise in the session, to creative movement explorations that may foster insight, self-expression, or facilitation of a fundamental shift in long held beliefs that are held in the body.
Somatic/Sensorimotor Psychotherapy will encourage recognition of sensation listening to messages of sensations that arise, and exploring how meaning was made about past and present experiences.
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”― Hillary L. McBride