Somatic Therapy

Somatic and Trauma-Focused Therapy in Vancouver, Toronto, & Montreal

Help support your nervous system with Somatic Therapy

Somatic support work is the intentional practice of noticing, exploring, and expressing the internal state of our bodies through movement, voice, and awareness.

At our most instinctual level, our body responds to the world around us by interpreting and responding to our reality as it occurs before us.

This “neuroception” sizes up and detects threats automatically, then employs whatever trauma response it senses will best serve to protect you. It might hyper-socialize, flight, fight or freeze, for instance.

Somatic therapy works on the level of moment-to-moment awareness of the nervous system to help us feel more safe and less hyper-vigilant and disassociated in our day-to-day lives.

Move out of “Fight-Flight-Feeze-Fawn” and towards “Tend and Befriend”

For bodies that have experienced trauma, these emergency responses can be stored in the body even after the threat of violation has passed. This can interact with our perception of reality (neuroception), and can inform involuntary, unconscious responses in our lives. Often these responses create great suffering.
Somatic support works with the nervous system, where these involuntary, unconscious responses live. Here, stress and stored emergency responses can be discharged in order to restore our neuroceptive capacity.
Specifically, through attuning to and moving the body in cooperation with these responses, space is created for new life force energy, empowered choice, deeper connection with self and others, and moving out of long-standing patterns that have felt impossible to change.
Somatic work supports increasing our resilience so we can meet the challenges in our homes and our careers with greater capacity.
Sessions will focus on developing body-based attunement, and may include personalized meditation, grounding exercises, movement and dialogue.

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What to Expect from Somatic Therapy in Montreal & Vancouver

Identify and address your underlying schemas.

Somatic therapy in Montreal and Vancouver from Resilience Psychotherapy strives to help you address some of the underlying triggers of your emotional upsets and relationship challenges. Some of the things that somatic therapy to help release tensions in your nervous system that may be related to:

Anger
Anxiety
Emotion Regulation Challenges
Relationship issues

Partner with a therapist for somatic therapy.

The first somatic therapy session is an opportunity for your therapist to understand what you are currently experiencing in your life and within your relationships. By exploring your experiences, emotions, physical sensations, and internal reactions, your therapist can help direct you away from threat and towards a feeling of safety within yourself.