Approach

Somatic Expressive Therapy is a healing practice that draws on self-awareness, creativity and body-centered psychotherapy to help us “get out of our head” and into a deeper, more embodied experience of being alive.

Many of us live from the neck up, cut off from the reality of our feelings that live in our bodies in various forms of tension, discomfort and pain. We may want to ignore our pain or try to find a quick fix, but those methods do not address the root cause of our suffering. This therapeutic modality utilizes various tools and techniques to help us return to our body and begin to feel into our unresolved issues. We might not yet understand what we feel, but with awareness and support, we can explore and express our sensations and emotions through dialogue, drawing, gesture, movement, dramatization, sound—whatever feels right to you. Your body and sensations lead the way.

Somatic Expressive Therapy can help us get what’s inside out—whether it’s spoken, onto paper, or into the space around us through movement or dramatization. With these expressive tools and the compassionate presence of a therapist, we can fully experience our emotions and get them “unstuck” and circulating in a safe environment.

Our wounds and issues aren’t trying to make our lives miserable, they’re just asking to be acknowledged and felt. Our pain has a message for us. Somatic Expressive Therapy teaches us how to listen to our bodies and gives us the tools to explore and translate its messages. When we hold ourselves in the light of awareness, seeing the ways we hold against our feelings, we can begin to transform our lives.