Somatic psychotherapy.
Somatic psychotherapy recognizes that our physical and emotional experiences are deeply intertwined. Paying curious attention to the body can allow us to be more deeply in touch with our experiences. We hold tension and frozen pockets of emotion in the body, especially if we’ve experienced trauma. Tuning in helps us to contact parts inside that are beyond the conscious mind; the body often knows a truth that the mind does not.
Our bodies also are a place of resilience and resource. In somatic psychotherapy, I will teach you to find places of safety in your body and to stay and soak it up. Through this mindful attention and being with, you are changing your brain thereby changing automatic responses that are no longer helpful.
It can look a lot of ways in session: breathwork to self-soothe anxiety, movement to counter feeling frozen, or quietly tuning in to notice internal sensations.
Working somatically is holistic… embodying our full human experience again instead of only living from our minds.
ATTACHMENT-BASED THERAPY.
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Attachment-based psychotherapy is based on attachment theory which states that our earliest relationships in life create a kind of bluepprint for all of our relationships. Its goals are to heal attachment wounds and help you improve your relationships.
You can learn why you push people away or why you get hella anxious when you don’t hear back from your person. Using the client-therapist relationship, you get to explore what comes up for you and potentially why it developed in the first place.