Somatic Experiencing in Denver, CO
Moving Beyond Just Talking
You thought you’d feel better by now, right? You’ve spent years unpacking your trauma, identifying your triggers, and learning the language of healing. Yet, your anxiety remains. Relationship patterns repeat. And the weight of your past still feels heavy, settling into your body and narrowing your world.
Maybe it shows up as a relentless inner critic, or a draining need for perfection that can never be satisfied. Or maybe, you carry tension in your shoulders, struggle to regulate your emotions, or even feel like an outsider in your own body.
No matter what role your trauma plays in your day-to-day life, you know what I’m talking about: the frustrating reality that your mind knows you are safe, but your body didn’t get the memo.
When the Body Holds the Score
Feeling stuck is not a personal failing, but a biological reality. That’s because your trauma and stress are so much more than just bad memories or painful experiences: they’re physiological events that get trapped in your nervous system.
When your body feels trauma and stress as deeply as your mind, talk therapy by itself might not be enough to release the survival energy built up in the body.
Chronic pain, digestive issues, anxiety, or feeling detached from yourself or others can all stem from this buildup of stress and anxious energy, meaning your body’s memory of the trauma can contribute more to these physical reactions than your current circumstances do!
The key to breaking the cycles of chronic stress and emotional dysregulation that trauma leaves behind is to resolve how it lives in our body, not just the mind.
Reconnect and Heal with Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE), a form of somatic healing therapy, is a gentle, body-centered approach that supports our bodies in releasing trauma from the nervous system (without needing to relive the overwhelming experiences).
Rooted in mind-body therapy, the SE process guides the nervous system to complete self-protective responses that got interrupted when the trauma first happened, helping to restore your capacity for resiliency.
You don’t have to stick it out in talk therapy that leaves you feeling frustrated or like your healing is incomplete.
How Somatic Experiencing Can Help
Release stored trauma: safely release fight-or-flight stress energy from the body
Improve emotional regulation: increase your potential to manage difficult feelings and regain calm ones
Reduce physical symptoms: reduce or eliminate chronic pain, muscle tension, and other physical manifestations of stress
Cultivate resilience: strengthen your nervous system’s ability to handle stress
Who Benefits from Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing is a good fit for those who:
Experience the effects of trauma or anxiety in their body
Are interested in the connection between mind and body
Have achieved limited progress with traditional talk therapy
Feel ready to move beyond perfectionism and self-criticism
Begin Your Journey to Embodied Healing
You deserve to feel safe in your own body. If you are ready to try a gentle, effective approach for healing trauma, support is just a phone call away.
Choose a day and time to connect and talk about how somatic experiencing, or a SE Intensive, can support your healing.