Trauma Release:
Helps you safely release stored trauma from the body, promoting physical and emotional healing.
Somatic Experiencing in Orange County
The renowned author, psychotherapist, and creator of Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine, PhD, developed his work based on the principle that trauma takes deep root within our bodies. It gets trapped in our physical form. This is a fundamental reality that influences how we are able to fully address trauma and PTSD.
Simply stated, somatic experiencing therapy helps people heal from trauma.
It is a body-oriented therapeutic model. It offers a release of traumatic shock that comes from extreme life-threatening experiences—perceived or otherwise. These wounds are both emotional and physical.
Benefits of Somatic Experiencing
Mind-Body Connection:
Strengthens the connection between your mind and body, enhancing self-awareness and emotional regulation.
Stress Reduction:
Provides tools to reduce chronic stress and tension, helping you feel more grounded and resilient.
Emotional Balance:
Supports greater emotional balance by resolving the body’s instinctive responses to past trauma.
Trauma Sources and SE Therapy
Common instigators of trauma include a variety of misfortunes and tragic circumstances. This can include abuse (physical, emotional, sexual), neglect, natural disasters, war, ongoing fear and conflict, and more. These things may pass in the moment, but the self-protective motor responses and thwarted survival energy is bound in the body.
Our bodies hold on to the trauma.
The goal SE therapy is to release that stress—to release the hold our bodies have on the trauma. Somatic experiencing therapy helps increase a sense of awareness of our bodies.