Somatic Experiencing
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing is a bodywork therapy that safely and effectively releases trauma, shock and stress disorders. It calms and regulates the nervous system by tailoring different talking and practical methods for your particular needs. These will help you become more body aware so you can identify and calm early signs of stress/activation rather than finding yourself overwhelmed.
How can Somatic Experiencing help with trauma?
When we become overwhelmed, traumatic shock can stay frozen in the body. Often there is not one major traumatic event that causes symptoms, anything that is just too much or has a negative effect on us can be difficult for the body to cope with if the stress cycle has not been deactivated after such an experience.
Initially, we build a safe container within you by looking for health and resources internally in the body and externally in your daily life that help you to expand your ability to cope with reactions and emotions as they happen. We then gently look into the stressful situation, trauma, symptom to see how it feels and how the body reacts to it and by pendulating between the state of calm and activation we wait for a discharge of the stress cycle.
As we build the container you will start to feel more content and at ease in yourself, more vibrant and energetic giving a greater sense of empowerment and confidence. Reducing the frequency and intensity of symptoms experienced creates an ability to recover quicker and manage them better if we do experience them.
Somatic Experiencing is a bodywork therapy that safely and effectively releases trauma, shock and stress disorders. It calms and regulates the nervous system by tailoring different talking and practical methods for your particular needs. These will help you become more body aware so you can identify and calm early signs of stress/activation rather than finding yourself overwhelmed.
How can Somatic Experiencing help with trauma?
When we become overwhelmed, traumatic shock can stay frozen in the body. Often there is not one major traumatic event that causes symptoms, anything that is just too much or has a negative effect on us can be difficult for the body to cope with if the stress cycle has not been deactivated after such an experience.
Initially, we build a safe container within you by looking for health and resources internally in the body and externally in your daily life that help you to expand your ability to cope with reactions and emotions as they happen. We then gently look into the stressful situation, trauma, symptom to see how it feels and how the body reacts to it and by pendulating between the state of calm and activation we wait for a discharge of the stress cycle.
As we build the container you will start to feel more content and at ease in yourself, more vibrant and energetic giving a greater sense of empowerment and confidence. Reducing the frequency and intensity of symptoms experienced creates an ability to recover quicker and manage them better if we do experience them.
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Nicki Young
Nicki is currently in her advanced year of the Somatic Experiencing (SE) diploma with SOSI Internationale and is a member of SEAUK. Since 2009, Nicki has been a bodyworker in Reflexology and Remedial/Sports Massage Therapy and is accredited through SMTO (Scottish Massage Therapist Organisation). For the past 3 years Nicki has been practising Craniosacral, which she studied with Body Intelligence, and in combining SE and Craniosacral as a bodywork approach to healing trauma works with PTSD, shock, chronic pain and other stress disorders. Online Zoom sessions now available. 1 hour session £60. Contact Nicki directly on 07958 566 596, via her website https://www.wellcentred.co.uk or at [email protected], |
