What happens in a somatic therapy session? Why don't we just talk about what happened during the week?

Chronic tension is a common complaint people bring into somatic therapy. It feels like you can never relax, like you’re walking around like a clenched fist. There are many reasons why this might be so. In somatic therapy, we can work to determine if there’s a psycho-somatic component. Here are three reasons you might constantly feel tense or tight due to psychological or emotional reasons.

Rejection sensitivity, or rejection sensitive dysphoria, is often an learned response that stems from real experiences of feeling unwanted. Experiential somatic therapy can help you find freedom from rejection sensitivity, feel more resilient, and finally make friends.

In this blog I explain how somatic therapy can help neurodivergent people recognize their sensory needs and advocate for themselves -- even if it's currently difficult to identify feelings.

How somatic therapy can help you reduce chronic pain, deal with pain flares, and grieve a life that's changed.

Somatic therapy can help you heal from borderline personality disorder, complex PTSD, and attachment trauma.

How somatic therapy helps clients to rewrite core beliefs about ones self and the world and build a sense of self-trust in your ability to feel and do things that have historically felt too overwhelming

The first and most important task of somatic psychotherapy, or any experiential method, is to develop an ability to metaphorically step back and notice your experience. This is called Dual Awareness.

Two different ways the nervous system shapes people pleasing.