Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.

‘Soma’ is a Greek word for ‘the living body known from within’, or known to the Self. This ‘knowing’ signifies wholeness. 

Somatic therapy is an experiential approach towards mindbody integration. The pain, overwhelm, and coping responses manifested by trauma take us away from feeling at home in our body, and as a result there is often a split within ourselves.

Somatic Therapy helps:

• Restore the body as a place of safety while helping to expand the capacity to process body (preverbal and nonverbal) memory
• Metabolize unprocessed emotions
• Complete thwarted (incomplete) stress responses
• Restore our optimal relationship to our self and the world around us

Somatic trauma therapy offers techniques for clients to sense and regulate their own physiology and states of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting and co-regulatory relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper in the body, and given time and space to process the trauma. These somatic techniques unwind trauma and restore well being."

The pain, overwhelm, and coping responses manifested by attachment trauma take us away from feeling at home in our body, at home with other people, or at home within the world. Somatic therapy brings us back.

The manifestations of attachment trauma are primarily subconscious, so using words (i.e talk therapy) or psycho-education alone is an incomplete approach for transformation. Profound healing and repatterning comes from making changes at the body (cellular) level. A somatic therapy approach acknowledges the narrative of our attachment journey and guides a client into the wisdom of their body to restore the innate capacity to bond, form healthy and adaptive boundaries, and flourish in all aspects of relationships.

Somatic Attachment Therapy helps:

• Restore the body as a place of safety and as a conduit for love
• Feel an embodied core sense of self
• Compassionately renew a felt sense of connection and security
• Release stored tensions in the body that contribute  to defensiveness, avoidance, or anxiety
• Expand the capacity to process body (preverbal and nonverbal) memory
• Metabolize unprocessed emotions
• Create deep and sustaining intimate relationships
• Break the cycle of reenacting protective attachments patterns in relationships
• Create the internal and external conditions for attachment repatterning versus merely working with symptom reduction.
• Restore your optimal relationship to yourself and the world around you
• Enhances the capacity for joy, trust, managing disappointments and rejections