Somatic Experiencing®

Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.

The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.

Touch Skills®

Touch Skills is a specific practice that uses tactile skills, somatic awareness, and other touch-related skills in the context of working with the resolution of trauma.

NeuroAffective Touch®

NeuroAffective Touch serves as an essential therapeutic bridge between psychotherapy and bodywork, this specific practice addresses attachment, emotional, and relational ruptures that are inaccessible through verbal means alone. This process is guided by intentional mindful touch which serve to access non-conscious memories held in the body into waking conscious awareness. As a method, NATouch,™ establishes a new somatic foundation that integrates and rewrites trauma based non-conscious behavioral patterns and helps to rebuild self-awareness and identity.

Brainspotting®

Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and containing.

Brainspotting functions as a neurobiological tool to support the clinical healing relationship. There is no replacement for a mature, nurturing therapeutic presence and the ability to engage another suffering human in a safe and trusting relationship where they feel heard, accepted, and understood.

Brainspotting gives us a tool, within this clinical relationship, to neurobiologically locate, focus, process, and release experiences and symptoms that are typically out of reach of the conscious mind and its cognitive and language capacity.

Brainspotting works with the deep brain and the body through its direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body’s central nervous system. Brainspotting is accordingly a physiological tool/treatment which has profound psychological, emotional, and physical consequences.

Kripalu Yoga®

In Kripalu Yoga, you will learn to direct your focus within and access the body’s wisdom. Rather than strive to perfect the mechanics of a pose, Kripalu Yoga uses postures and other yogic techniques to reveal the true nature of who you are.

Clinical Somatic Movement®

Clinical Somatics is a neuromuscular education that uses the technique of pandiculation to retrain muscle memory and relieve pain.