Somatic Experiencing Therapy (SE)

Psychotherapy Modalities

Somatic Experiencing Therapy (SE)

“Heal from trauma by reconnecting with your body’s natural resilience.”

Somatic Experiencing Therapy in Guelph & Mississauga

Intro:

Somatic Experiencing (SE) Therapy is a body-centered approach designed to help individuals process trauma, PTSD, and chronic stress by releasing stored tension from the nervous system. By working with physical sensations rather than just thoughts, SE facilitates healing on a deep, neurological level.

Content:
Complaints about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often involve mental and physical health woes afflicting those who have experienced loss and related traumas like accidents or combat incidents; influences further undiminished when physiological disturbances arise from imbalanced autonomic nervous systems affecting such victims’ ability to regain equanimity. Dr. Peter Levine developed Somato-Experiencing (SE) to help patients overcome these hurdles by tracking physical sensations or somatic experiences, thereby guiding awareness and management of body-based reactions that enable natural self-regulation processes.

Without the need to focus solely on traumatic events in isolation, SE allows a safe, gentle route towards increased sensitivity to unpleasant but recoverable feelings and emotions. Patients learn this process by gradually building greater tolerance for difficult physical sensations along with suppressed reactions and responses allowing trapped survival energy still bound within their bodies to release at last – thus enabling completion of self-protective motor patterns while bringing healing to root causes triggering traumatic symptoms—often the key found through SE.

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