Somatic Techniques for Interpersonal Trauma Counseling in Benicia and Vallejo, CA
If you're dealing with the symptoms of stress, anxiety or trauma, you might notice physical sensations or even symptoms that are similar to feeling physically sick.
Talking in therapy is a powerful way for women to share their stories, gain new insight and expand perspectives. It can help you to feel heard, understood and create new meanings in a safe space.
But, talking mostly attends to the mind and might not effectively release and heal the emotional pain, stress and trauma stored in our bodies.
Somatic or body-based strategies can help us powerfully attune to our embodied experiences to release stuck emotional pain, reprocess trauma and rewire the brain's stress response.
Including strategies such as breathwork, Somatic EMDR*, yoga and Havening Techniques can help to reunite and harmonize the mind and body to reprocess trauma, relieve symptoms and manage stress for more effective progress and long-term relief.
*EMDR: Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing
Grounding and Co-Regulation
Including grounding techniques in our work together help increase your ability to stay connected to the present moment and maintain emotional stability.
Co-regulation is a powerful tool backed by science, which supports your body's sense of safety by using the power of another's emotional state to manage your own.
Traumatic Reprocessing & Mind-Body Connection
Somatic EMDR* and Havening Techniques are psychosensory approaches designed to process and reprocess traumatic and stressful experiences, which can reduce the intensity and frequency of symptoms or even resolve them completely.
These approaches also support phobias, narrative reconstruction and provide preventative stress management.
They involve bi-lateral eye movements, touch (self-applied) or movements to alter thoughts, moods and behaviors for long-term healing.
*EMDR: Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing
Movement and Breathwork
Movement and breathwork are powerful ways to alleviate stress or anxiety symptoms and release emotions and trauma responses trapped in the body. Your nervous system is constantly working to return to a balanced state. Movement and breathing exercises can support your body's ability to return to and remain in a zone of safety and connection.