Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a specialized, body-oriented framework created by Dr. Peter Levine that targets the nervous system to heal trauma, chronic stress, and physiological dysregulation. Traditional talk therapy focuses primarily on cognitive processing, which often only scratches the surface of trauma. Because overwhelming or traumatic experiences cause the physical body to generate massive amounts of survival energy (fight, flight, or freeze), true healing requires assessing where that survival energy has become trapped or "stuck" inside your nervous system.
As a fully credentialed Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I guide you to reconnect safely with your physiology by expanding your capacity to notice, track, and tolerate physical body sensations. Rather than asking you to continuously retell your painful past events, we focus on facilitating the completion of your body's natural self-protective motor responses and gently discharging the thwarted survival energy bound in your muscles and tissues. This specialized, body-centered approach restores a deep baseline of internal safety, eases chronic anxiety, and builds the long-term coping skills necessary to live a fully embodied life.
As a fully credentialed Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I guide you to reconnect safely with your physiology by expanding your capacity to notice, track, and tolerate physical body sensations. Rather than asking you to continuously retell your painful past events, we focus on facilitating the completion of your body's natural self-protective motor responses and gently discharging the thwarted survival energy bound in your muscles and tissues. This specialized, body-centered approach restores a deep baseline of internal safety, eases chronic anxiety, and builds the long-term coping skills necessary to live a fully embodied life.
