Body-Centered Approaches
I use a variety of methods (see below) to help you use the wisdom of your body to connect, heal, and transform your life. Body-based approaches (also called somatic therapy) may combine talk therapy with physical techniques, such as movement, touch, vocal work, yoga, breathing, and meditation.
Through developing awareness of the mind-body connection and using specific interventions, somatic therapy helps you to release the tension, anger, frustration, and emotions related to negative experiences. The goal is to help free you from the stress and pain that is preventing you from fully engaging in your life.
Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®)
TRE is a simple yet innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma. TRE often does not require verbally describing or talking about a traumatic experience. The process helps the body to reduce its own stress and restore a sense of well-being. TRE is something you can use throughout your life, thereby continuously supporting and promoting personal health and well-being.
Somatic Experiencing (SE™)
The SE approach lies in the perspective that energy gets ‘stuck’ in our bodies when we experience a threatening or traumatic event. Our bodies don’t release traumatic shock, and we live with emotional wounds long-term. In the future, when we encounter events, people, or things that remind us of the earlier experience, we will likely be triggered.
SE helps you to transform post-traumatic stress and other emotional wounds by resolving the fight, flight, or freeze responses and returning the body back to a restful state. You’ll do exercises that help the body to sense more fully the capacity to protect itself, then your body recognizes that the danger is over, and you can finally settle.
Breathwork
Breathwork is any type of therapy that uses breathing exercises to improve mental, physical, and spiritual health. To promote good self-awareness, breathwork will include elements of talk therapy, breathing exercises, art, music, and bodywork.
In general, the goal of breathwork is to support you in achieving a greater sense of self-awareness and capacity for self-healing. By changing the patterns of breathing, it is possible to restore balance to your nervous system, improve physical health, calm an agitated mind, improve relationships, and relieve symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You’ll be prescribed breathing patterns based on your needs.