the somatic therapy approach
At Elument, you'll settle into a safe and supportive environment where your therapist guides your awareness to your bodily experiences, so you can begin to release tension, access blocked emotions, and transform limiting beliefs and patterns.
Some key principles that guide our Somatic Therapy sessions include:
- The Mind-Body Connection is integral to humans, and somatic therapy emphasizes this link between the two. Emotional and psychological experiences are stored in our bodies and somatic therapy exercises can help access that information.
- Trauma and stress can manifest in the body. Our bodies hold unresolved pieces of our past that become stuck or trapped. This can lead to physical tension, discomfort, pain, triggers, and reactivity. By working with this stored past, we can help release what’s there and move to a higher state of both awareness and regulation.
- Somatic therapy relies on mindful awareness of the body. We encourage clients to become more in touch with the sensations from their present moment and the information and wisdom contained in those sensations. By tuning in to this awareness we can explore nervous system dysregulation and work on pieces of us such as self-compassion, lowered reactivity, and self-confidence.
- Building self-regulation and resilience is a part of the process. By learning regulation techniques such as deep breathing, movement, mindful refocusing, or grounding techniques, we’ve found clients can build resilience both while working through their past as well as with coping with whatever comes up in the future. We don’t want to just help with your past, we want to help you have a deeper trust in your ability to navigate when life gets hard in the future.
- We view somatic therapy as a process that involves the mind, body, and spirit. We acknowledge that all parts of us can have profound effects on emotional and psychological well-being.
