Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach that aims to support the resolution of nervous system symptoms resulting from acute stress or trauma that stay stuck in our bodies.

Our nervous systems are designed to know how to flow, but sometimes they get stuck. When we’re in flow, our nervous systems can seamlessly shift from states of moving+mobilizing, resting+digesting, and socially connecting.

However, when the overwhelm of acute stress or trauma are experienced, our nervous systems can become “stuck” in physiological patterns in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Often, this is referred to as nervous system dysregulation.

Since stress and trauma impacts us on a cellular level, we can’t just talk ourselves out if it. Even if it “makes sense”, it might not impact what our bodies continue to physically sense. In order to heal it, it needs to be felt and supported with the right co-created conditions.

Using SE tools, we’ll work together to broaden your awareness of how this stuckness is felt, manifests in your life, and to support the possibility of your body being able to feel it differently.

Together, we’ll explore ways of supporting your body to complete its natural processing of self-protective responses, releasing of stuck survival energy, and widening your window of capacity enough to unstick the stuck nervous system pattern.

We'll explore what you sense in the here-and-now as a a result of what was experienced there-and-then. We'll get curious about the felt side of your story, how your nervous system is attempting to regulate you, and ways of actively engaging with your nervous system to support the possibility of feeling something in a new way. Ultimately, this is what supports the nervous system to return to it’s innate knowing of flowing.