Somatic Therapy in California: Reconnect with Your Body After Trauma
Understanding Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to trauma healing that recognizes the deep connection between your mind and body. When you’ve experienced trauma, your body often holds onto the pain even when your mind tries to move on. You might feel disconnected from your body, struggle with chronic tension, or find it difficult to relax.
Somatic therapy helps you gently reconnect to your physical sensations, release stored trauma, and feel safe in your body again. It invites you to notice what your body is saying through breath, posture, or muscle tightness and to use those cues as pathways to healing.
How Somatic Therapy Supports Trauma Healing
Trauma often lives in the body as unfinished survival energy the fight, flight, or freeze responses that were never completed. Somatic therapy provides a space to complete those responses in a safe, guided way. Through grounding exercises, mindful awareness, and gentle movement, you can begin to regulate your nervous system and rebuild trust in your body.
Some key elements include:
Body awareness: Learning to notice sensations without judgment.
Breathwork: Using breath to calm and center the body.
Grounding and movement: Reconnecting to your physical presence in the here-and-now.
Self-compassion: Cultivating kindness toward your body and its responses.
Over time, this process helps your body feel like a safe place to be again rather than a reminder of past pain.
My Integrative, Body-Based Approach
In my California practice, I use somatic therapy alongside evidence-based modalities such as EMDR and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). This integrative approach honors both the emotional and physical aspects of trauma recovery.
Together, we’ll explore how your body communicates stress, safety, and boundaries. You’ll learn tools to regulate your nervous system, express emotions safely, and feel more grounded in your daily life. The goal isn’t just to talk about healing it’s to experience it in your body.
Rebuilding Trust with Your Body
Healing from trauma is not just about understanding what happened it’s about restoring your relationship with your body. Through somatic therapy, you can learn to listen to your body’s signals with compassion, release old patterns of fear or tension, and rediscover a sense of inner peace.
You deserve to feel at home in your body again.
If you’re ready to begin your somatic therapy journey in California, I invite you to reach out for a consultation. Together, we’ll take gentle, grounded steps toward lasting healing and reconnection.
