Somatic Experiencing
Somatic experiencing is a form of somatic therapy and a body-centered therapeutic approach. It’s most often used to help people overcome symptoms tied to trauma, since it may allow someone to become “unstuck” in the fight, flight or freeze response.
The Somatic Experiencing® approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms.
This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop
an increased tolerance for managing difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.
Transforming Touch Therapy
Transforming touch creates a milieu of safety where a client experiences attachment- based touch protocols focused on healing early ruptures and supporting the survival instincts that help one navigate the world before conception and beyond.
Transforming Touch Therapists speak the language of these survival parts and can support them in repairing the early attachment "disconnections". Some of these early survival parts are being heard for the first time.
Sexual Trauma
The impact of sexual trauma can result in struggles with emotions, relationships, values, sense of self, intimacy,
and lead to stress and dysregulation of the nervous system.
Healing the wounds of sexual trauma requires mindfulness and attunement so that all survivors can find their voice and become more embodied after sexual trauma.
Men "face" unique body-awareness barriers to naming, disclosing, reporting and getting support after sexual trauma. Processing feelings of isolation, shame, betrayal, humiliation, anger, and confusion about sexuality for male survivors is complicated by a larger society that often suppresses men’s capacity to express feelings and develop body awareness.
Racial Trauma
Racial Trauma refers to the developmental and complex trauma associated with the chronic and sustained experience of systemic racism and oppression.
The impact is embodied and results in an ongoing threat response that impacts sense of safety and trust. Racial trauma can result in a heightened sense of shame and vulnerability.
Developmental Trauma
Developmental trauma occurs between the moment of conception, and before the onset of conscious verbal thought at age two or three.
It is pre-cognitive, pre-verbal and floods the in-utero brain and body. These stress chemicals can be present in both the baby and mother and can result in difficulties with attachment.
Traumatic dysregulation of the nervous system harms the development of the brain, the body, and can create chronic stress conditions.
Dissociation
Dissociation is a word that is used to describe the disconnection or lack of connection between things
usually associated with each other.
Dissociated experiences are not integrated into the usual sense of self, resulting in discontinuities in conscious awareness. In severe forms of dissociation, disconnection occurs in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception.
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