Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-oriented therapeutic model developed by Dr. Peter Levine that 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 stress physiology & psychophysiology-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. The approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions and working to complete defensive responses previously thwarted from bringing resolution to the nervous system and, therefore, to the individual.

An approach based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, somatic psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics. It’s been clinically applied for more than five decades and is informed by Trauma Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Focusing, Reichian Body-Psychotherapy, Bodywork, and Mindfulness-based awareness practices that earned Peter Levine his “lifetime achievement awards” from prominent organizations like the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.

Sensorimotor Art Therapy® Guided Drawing is a body-oriented trauma-informed approach developed by art therapist Cornelia Elbrecht that focuses on stabilizing and regulating the nervous system, building resources, encouraging active responses to once overwhelming events, and nurturing developmental deficits, through integrating renowned psychotherapist and biophysist Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing with the expressive arts. We instantly respond to safety and threat with our body. It encourages the awareness of such implicit felt sense experiences as drawing in rhythmic repetition engages the motor cortex; and simultaneously it stimulates increasingly satisfying sensory feedback, as well as encourages the development of new neurological pathways that can repair traumatic ruptures. Such sensorimotor achievements can lastingly transform even early infant developmental setbacks; they assist in finding an active response to traumatic experiences and allow us to rewrite our biography towards a more authentic, alive sense of self.

An approach informed by Somatic Experiencing®, Bioenergetics, Focusing, Jungian Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Bodywork, and Mindfulness-based awareness practices.

Innate Somatic Intelligence™ Trauma Therapy is a mindfulness-based movement practice that is a integrative, relational and somatic approach to healing trauma developed by somatic psychotherapist Manuela Mischke-Reeds based on essential Hakomi Therapy techniques, that centers movement as a primary healing modality. It integrates a polyvagal trauma-informed view on the somatic, relational, and clinical skills needed to transform trauma experiences and awaken innate healing capacities, transforming mental barriers, and releasing internalized protective parts. It hold as a core assumption that trauma healing is not a problem to be solved, but rather a psychobiological process to be connected to. This connection with the soma is how we access the innate healing intelligence within. Trauma healing can reconnect us with innate somatic intelligence that is available in all of us: the “river beneath” the trauma. This river is the innate and fluid state that accesses a healing reservoir within.

An approach informed by Hakomi & Relational Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Hanna Somatics, Continuum and Authentic Movement, Expressive Arts, Somatic Touch, Attachment Theory, Internalized Parts Work, Polyvagal Theory, Mindfulness and Embodiment-based awareness practices.

Hanna Somatics Yoga is a neuromuscular movement re-education practice developed by Eleanor Criswell, drawing on her husband Thomas Hanna’s work, who coined the term "somatics." It focuses on sensory-motor awareness, voluntary muscle contractions, and slow, conscious releases to reset the nervous system and relieve chronic tension. It addresses sensory-motor amnesia (the state where the brain loses conscious control over certain muscles of the body due to stress, trauma, or habitual holding patterns) through pandiculation, a learning process that resets muscles at the nervous system level to restore voluntary movement. By learning to regain awareness, sensation, and motor control of muscles (an educational process that can only be achieved through movement) the brain can remember how to relax and move the muscles properly. This process of sensory-motor learning improves neuromuscular performance, proprioceptive function, and relief from both chronic and acute pain. Unlike conventional yoga, it works through the neuroplasticity of the sensory-motor cortex to restore whole-body ease and presence.

An approach informed by Yoga Therapy, Hanna Somatic Education, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, Neurology, Physiological Psychology, Biofeedback, Sensory-Motor Awareness and Mindfulness-based practices.