What is Somatic Therapy?
Our bodies are a part of our consciousness, and it is through our bodies, or more specifically through our nervous system, that we experience the world. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) monitors the environment constantly for possible threats and sources of pleasure. Somatic Psychotherapy utilizes this biological fact in helping to unlock stored tension, stress, and trauma from the nervous system. It is a method that helps develop mindfulness so that we are aware when we are engaging in both useful and not useful ways of being in the world. The individual learns to respond physiologically in a new way to life stressors, both past, and present.
