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A session with me will help you to restore the resilience of your
nervous system and:
- Better manage and decrease your level of stress
- Reduce the impact of physical and emotional trauma
- Transition your patterns of physical and mental aggravation to a
healthy state of being - Aid in your recovery from trauma or surgery
- Ease chronic aches, pain and fatigue
- Create a feeling of well being
- Help rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit
- Provide you with the experience of calm and joy
Questions and Answers:
What is Somatic Experiencing (SE for short)?
What should I expect during an SE session?
How often will the SE sessions be needed?
How does SE differ from other healing modalities?
How much does Somatic Experiencing cost?
What is Somatic Experiencing (SE for short)?
In short, Somatic Experiencing allows your nervous system to gently release stress and trauma through body awareness, completing healthy instinctual and self-protective responses to events that have had a negative impact on your life.
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What should I expect during an SE session?
A session is usually experienced face-to-face, similar to talk therapy. I may include touch therapy in which I place my hands on different areas of your body. This will help your nervous system to return to homeostasis. Telephone sessions are also available for out-of-town clients.
During a session, I help you to deeply connect with the sensations of your body and help you to become consciously aware of your inner and outer resources that strengthen your health on all levels. Through this awareness, I will help you reduce the impact of mental, emotional and physical stress and trauma. My intent is to provide you with the experience of safety and calm while you transition your focus to joy, healing, and pleasure.
During a session, you may notice a gradual discharge of your nervous system. This occurs in several different ways: trembling, shaking, twitching, tingling and vibrating sensations. You may also become aware of temperature differences, expanded breathing, and skin and digestion sensations. Crying, laughing and yawning may be part of your experience as well. All these responses are therapeutic and often can come with a sense of unfamiliarity. Please be assured that these reactions are welcomed and restorative to your nervous system.
I had an experience where I was doing another kind of therapy and it was really difficult. Will there be any "painful memories" or physical or emotional suffering that I will experience during an SE session?
Discomfort and pain actually have a purpose and let us know that there is a problem, or rather something we need to notice about ourselves. Pain can actually be helpful in the healing process, and during a session with me you may briefly experince discomfort to feel it in the body, not so much to process it in the mind.
SE is not an emotional, cathartic reliving of a traumatic event—a method that can lead to re-traumatization—but a renegotiation of traumatic events. I work with the nervous system and the primal and instinctual fight, flight, and freeze responses that are activated when there is a perceived threat. As your practitioner, I hold a safe space for you where you able to explore these and other helpful sensations.
To answer this further, I work with "Resourcing," which is simply connecting to a pleasant feeling, thought, or image and experiencing this by becoming aware of the sensations in your body. Accessing empowering experiences, both internal and external (such as support, love, tranquility, inner strength, connection with nature or something that you would like to create) will help to regulate your nervous system when experienced somatically.
How often will the SE sessions be needed?
How often sessions are needed is up to you and your need for this work. One session has worked for some to restore resilience in their nervous systems, whereas others have committed to twelve or more session to complete their healing process. On average, people usually complete six to eight sessions with me with great results. I have also had subsequent sessions with previous clients when something new has emerged in their life, or they have experienced a new trauma. It really depends on how “over-reactive” or “under-reactive” your nervous system has become from traumatic events.
How does SE differ from other healing modalities?
Somatic Experiencing meets you where you are in the moment and is a process of allowing your nervous system to do what it needs to complete self-protective responses to traumatic events. Other energy, touch, and breath work modalities include exercises or manipulation of the body. These modalities can be beneficial in your healing process as well, and can compliment Somatic Experiencing. Somatic Experiencing can also be complimentary to psychological work, and I can work in collaboration with your therapist if you have one.
Do you think SE could help with psychosomatic issues, as I have pains in my body that I think may be really related to my emotions?
Somatic Experiencing is ideal for psychosomatic issues such as pains in the body that may be related to emotions. If you are suffering from syndromes or symptoms that cannot be explained medically, I strongly encourage you to explore Somatic Experiencing.
Introductory session
I am offering my first time clients 25% off their first session, at the fee of $75
Package Specials:
Three sessions for $265
Six sessions for $500
Twelve sessions for $930
Session Fees:
One session for $100
One phone session for $75
Sliding scale available
Session time: runs one to one and half hours (or possibly longer if need be)
Telephone Sessions are also available
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