What is Somatic Experiencing?
"Somatic Experiencing (SE™) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. Trauma, from an SE lens, is focused on how it shows up in the nervous system and how that dysregulation impacts life. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient. It 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 from a nervous system lens within a practitioner’s scope of practice."
What Can Somatic Experiencing Be Helpful For?
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Trauma-Processing
- Anxiety Management
- Chronic Fight, Flight or Freeze
*Trauma Examples: Physical Assault, Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Chronic Fear or Conflict, Sexual Assault, Accident, Natural Disaster, Birth Trauma, Loss, Accidents, War, Occupational Injury, Ongoing Moments of Helplessness and many more potential options.*
Additional Benefits:
- Learning how to notice body cues.
- Enhance ability to ground and cope with stress.
- Start feeling more resourced.
- Understand nervous system better.
What Can You Expect?
Facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses, assists with release of survival energy stuck in the body and addresses the root cause of trauma symptoms.
- Gentle guidance of clients to increase tolerance for difficult body sensations and emotions.
- Help "complete" defensive responses that were not safe or able to at time of event(s).
- Bring resolution to the nervous system.
Somatic Experiencing is a body-focused therapy method designed to relieve and resolve trauma symptoms by emphasizing physical sensations and bodily experiences.
Paige Mathison
Book NowReference
Somatic Experiencing International (2024). SE 101. Somatic Experiencing International. https://traumahealing.org/se-101/
