Somatic Therapy Palm beach Gardens
A body-awareness approach to therapy
Connecting the mind, body, and spirit
Somatic therapy is a method performed at The Therapy Space by our Palm Beach Garden therapy experts that brings together the mind, body, and emotions to promote healing from struggles such as anxiety, stress, trauma, and more. Serious issues such as PTSD and other traumas have also met success with somatic therapy.
Our bodies often physically hold on to negative feelings that are associated with traumatic events or daily struggles, and somatic therapy provides a manner of healing that is natural for each patient.
While the majority of therapy exercises are mind-focused, the body-first method of somatic therapy takes an approach that gauges the body’s reaction to negative feelings, then uses exercises such as breathwork, mindfulness, or other physical exercise to find peace and healing.
How does Somatic Therapy Work?
Somatic therapy uses awareness of our body’s sensory capabilities to heal ourselves from negative feelings caused by trauma, constant stress, or consistent anxiety. Instead of allowing us to feel the same struggle over and over, somatic therapy seeks to break the pattern by finding healing through body awareness.
Our Palm Beach Gardens somatic therapists may use breathwork, grounding, meditation, mindfulness, or other physical exercises. This all depends on the individual, because each of our bodies reacts to negativity in a different way.
Even extreme cases of trauma such as PTSD, chronic pain, serious injury, and abuse are able to find healing with somatic therapy.
Additional Information about Somatic Therapy
Our therapists in Palm Beach Gardens have decades of experience in psychotherapy and bodywork. Throughout their careers we have developed an unparalleled intuition with body sensory techniques, helping us to properly determine patient needs for body-first healing.
We can identify the unique ways by which your body responds to stress and hardship, and analyze the “fight, flight, or freeze” tendencies you possess. This way, we can see how your body naturally desires to expel energy, and use somatic therapy methods accordingly.
Instead of focusing on the part of the brain responsible for thought processes, we are focusing on the hindbrain, where sensory processing takes place. We want to allow the body to reveal how our minds think to promote effective healing.
Somatic Therapy and Trauma
Somatic therapy is an effective therapeutic method to provide insight as to why the negative effects a traumatic event can have on a patient. We use these insights to help patients move past the issue, resetting the nervous system, promoting balance and resilience, and helping patients continue forward with a healthier and more joyful life.
We know that trauma is hard to talk about, and traditional therapeutic methods can sometimes do more harm than good by making patients discuss their traumatic experiences at length. Somatic therapy uses a body-first approach that allows you to keep these experiences to yourself while letting the body tell our therapists what they need to know.
