Somatic Therapy

The importance of using the body in healing cannot be overstated. Throughout our lifespan, we feel and sense through our bodies, and these feelings and sensations take on meaning. Some of our sensations have universal meaning. For example one's face becoming hot usually indicates embarrassment. Other patterns of sensation and feeling are unique to us, expressing a life's worth of thoughts, feelings, actions, dreams, struggles, connections, and choices. I often ask my clients to 'tune into' their bodies and to explore what they feel. Somatic work in therapy creates a physiological inroad to a variety of topics.

The somatic therapy that I train in and practice is called Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. It is an approach to counselling that can give us access to incredible life-long internal resources, and relies less on detailed description of our painful experiences.