Soma-Mystic™ Trauma Therapy
This Soma-Mystic™ work blends multiple practices and modalities. My blend of mysticism and therapeutic training combine for a mind - body - spirit healing experience. This work uses a combination of intuition and nervous system stabilization.
There is no magic bullet for trauma healing. It requires patience, knowledge and skill.
Talk therapy can take you very far on your journey, but talk therapy alone isn’t enough. Somatic techniques teach the nervous system how to settle and feel safe so you can experience life with a new capacity for joy and ease. I offer Somatic Experiencing and EMDR as part of the therapy journey.
Using these methods, my job as a facilitator is to assist your body to be its own medicine. See below to learn more about these modalities.
soma (so-ma) noun
the body of an organism
of or relating to the body
mystic (mi-stik) adjective
of or relating to mysteries or the esoteric
having magical properties
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE™) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient. It is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms.
Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (Maxfield, 2019).
EMDR therapy has even been superior to Prozac in trauma treatment (Van der Kolk et al., 2007). Shapiro and Forrest (2016) share that more than 7 million people have been treated successfully by 110,000 therapists in 130 countries since 2016.
from the Emdria Website, 2023