What is Integrative Somatic Coaching?

Soma means body and somatics is living body. Somatics is a holistic approach to healing and wellness that emphasizes the connection between the mind, body, and spirit. Somatic Coaching encompasses a wide range of approaches that are based on the principle that integrative healing happens when we bring awareness to our bodies' language of sensation, image, implicit memory, emotion, movement, and breath. Your true nature of aliveness, wholeness, vitality and sensuality all live in your body. However, your ability to be connected to your true nature, to others, and to the here and now is interrupted by chronic stress and trauma. Somatics aims to bring back the innate, healing rhythm of your nervous system, that not only best supports your physical health, but best supports your connection to yourself, others, and the world around you.

These approaches include: Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi Method, Applied Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Parts Work, Somatic Attachment Theory

What can I expect in a session?

You will be offered techniques to sense and regulate your body and state of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper into the body, and given time and space to process trauma.

How can it help me?

Somatic Coaching can help you to:

• Restore the body as a place of safety while growing your capacity to process bodily memory

• Work through unprocessed emotions

• Complete incomplete stress responses

• Restore an optimal relationship to yourself, others and the world around you

Who is it for?

Anyone struggling with having experienced a disruption to the body-mind’s capacity to adapt, thrive, and flourish. You may or may not experience symptoms including:

• Physical symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, tightness in the body, muscle tension, digestion challenges, and constrictions around the breath. 

• Emotional symptoms such as flatness / inability to feel, fear, anxiety, panic, overwhelm, loss of choice, difficulty feeling comforted, anger, and shame.

• Psychological symptoms such as dissociation, mental rumination, low self worth, negative self talk, self blame, memory challenges, depression, and loss of interest in activities. 

• Relational / Social symptoms such as isolation, loneliness, relational and attachment reenactments. 

“You will be offered techniques to sense and regulate your body and state of being. This includes building more internal and external resources, building trusting relationships, learning to turn inward with compassion, being invited deeper into the body, and given time and space to process trauma.”