SOMATIC THERAPY

Somatic Therapy

At Head and Heart Collective, we approach to healing by honoring the deep connection between the mind and the body. In somatic therapy, we work with physical sensations, postures, movements, and the body's subtle cues to help you release emotional and psychological stress that may be stored in the body.

Somatic Therapy at Head and Heart Collective

Somatic therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on the body and its role in emotional wellness. In this approach, we aim to help individuals understand and process experiences through bodily sensations, movements, and awareness practices.


Key Principles of Somatic Therapy:

  • Body-Mind Connection: Somatic therapy emphasizes the interconnectedness of the mind and body.

  • Embodied Experience: It encourages individuals to explore and understand sensations through physical sensations.

  • Trauma Resolution: Somatic therapy can be used to address and heal trauma by helping individuals safely re-experience and process traumatic memories.

  • Regulation of the Nervous System: It aims to regulate the nervous system, reduce stress, and navigate nervous system responses to past trauma.

Benefits of Somatic Therapy

  • Improved emotional regulation

  • Reduced stress and anxiety

  • Enhanced body awareness

  • Trauma resolution

  • Increased resilience

Somatic therapy can be beneficial for individuals experiencing a wide range of mental health issues, including trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain.

 

Somatic Therapy Techniques at Head and Heart Collective

SomatoSymbolic Processing: A technique where individuals are guided into the somatic and subconscious layers of awareness. This leads to embodied awareness, where we then focus on integrating aspects of the self, leading to overall Self coherence. In this technique, we often use a body scan, were individuals focus on their bodily sensation and become aware of any tension or blockages. Guided movements and exercises are used to explore and release emotions and trauma stored in the body.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): During EMDR sessions, we utilize somatic interweaves to process and resolve traumatic memories.

“If your life has not three dimensions, if you don’t live in the body, if you live on the two-dimensional plane in the paper world that is flat and printed, as if you were only living your biography, then you are nowhere.

You don’t see the archetypal world, but live like a pressed flower in the pages of a book, a mere memory of yourself.”

— Carl Jung