Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body orientated form of trauma resolution therapy. Trauma resides in the body as trapped energy, which may have become fixed when the body was over-whelmed. The gentle release of this energy allows the trauma to be released gradually in a controlled manner without the need for the person having to re-experience the original trauma.
SE gives us an opportunity to release that stress energy from the body through presence and attention on specific sensations, emotions, images, body impulses, movements and meanings that are arising in the present moment.
SE gives us the opportunity to renegotiate overwhelming experiences in life where our boundaries might have been broken, so that we no longer hold the energy and discomfort of those experiences in our body. It can regulate the nervous system following medical traumas, car accidents and all types of trauma.
This is a scientifically proven technique, which is suitable for helping many types of trauma including those traumas where the person may have no implicit memory of the trauma. Developed by Dr Peter Levine, who discovered that animals in the wild whose lives are routinely threatened by predators are not traumatised compared to humans where the natural release of energy from trauma can be interrupted by social and/or cultural influences although the process is similar. Somatic experiencing allows the person to tune into this natural process. Somatic Experiencing is a clinical training.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Ffion’s sessions are experiential, therapeutic, creative and educational.
Ffion truly believes in our potential to expand beyond our trauma and what has happened to us in life. She holds a strong vision of the most authentic, embodied, and thriving version of those she is honoured to work with. Being orientated to the goodness and resilience in her clients has resulted, time and time again, in empowered, bold and beautiful transformations in her practice.
The sessions are creative in nature, and she often uses art, touch, writing, and movement as a means to tap deeper into the wisdom of the body.
Benefits
In Somatic Experiencing sessions the person resources themselves with positive events. The person tracks body sensations, emotions and meanings as they move towards an over-whelming time in their life. This is done as small amounts in cycles. Each cycle releases energy from the trauma. It is not necessary to recall the event, the trauma can be released without the talk or if there is no memory of the trauma. The trauma no longer remains and is without an energy signature. The nervous system then resets itself.
Meet Our Therapist
Ffion Thomas
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Frequently Asked Questions about Somatic Experiencing
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing is a body-oriented form of trauma resolution therapy that works with trapped stress energy held in the body.
What can it help with?
It may help with medical trauma, car accidents, early trauma, chronic overwhelm and other experiences where stress energy became fixed in the body.
Do I have to relive the trauma?
No. The method is designed to release trauma gradually without needing to re-experience the original event in full.
What happens in a session?
The work involves tracking body sensations, emotions, movements and meanings in small cycles so stored trauma energy can be renegotiated and released.