How Somatic Psychotherapy works

Somatic Psychotherapy heals unresolved trauma – events that overwhelm us and cause stress disorder. Trauma is a right-brain, implicit memory wound to the body, the psyche, and the soul.*

The good news is that, due to brain plasticity, this breach can be repaired through compassionate right-brain connectivity.

My approach is integrative, transformative, and body-centred, based in emotional self-regulation theory, the neurobiology of trauma, attachment theory, and the ancient wisdom of nature-based traditions.

Somatic Psychotherapy explores and teaches:

• how the mind lives not just in the brain, but in the heart and gut and in your whole body.

• we are each a fractal of the Whole.

• how your thoughts and beliefs about who you are in the world determine your emotional expressions in relationships and in creating your world.

• you are "God Eternal within the Body" (Gregg Braden)

Somatic Psychotherapy also enhances skills to:

• self-regulate the nervous system and change old, limiting patterns of thinking and behaving

• transform major life challenges into experiences of renewal, connection, and growth

• repair relationship injuries

• improve emotional, mental, and physical health

• restore connection to Self and internal parts

• enhance creative flow and actions

• expand social engagement in your life.

The body physically mirrors the sense of Self. When you expand with joy or contract in fear, your body reflects these patterns of expansion and constriction.

Contact Sylvia at sylc@telus.net to learn more about Somatic Psychotherapy.