Somatic Experiencing®
in Colorado
Move Beyond 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, a tendency to please others, 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.
Remembered in the Body
Feeling stuck is not a personal failing, but a physiological reality. That’s because your trauma and stress are so much more than just bad memories or painful experiences: they’re events that become implicitly stored in your nervous system.
You can spend a lot of time talking about your experiences, but this can keep survival energy alive and preventing sufficient discharge of disruptive events. By engaging the body in a slow and gentle manner, we can begin to shift the experience of events both big and small to move towards relief.
Chronic pain, anxiety, automatic responses in relationships, or feeling detached from yourself or others can be rooted in unresolved threat responses. Your body’s memory of various events 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 therapy, is a gentle, body-centered approach that guides the body to discharge trauma from the nervous system (without needing to relive the overwhelming experiences).
Rooted in animal physiology, SE steers the nervous system to complete self-protective responses 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
Discharge stored trauma: safely shift from states of fight, flight or freeze into rest and connect
Improve emotional regulation: increase your potential to manage difficult feelings and regain calm ones
Reduce physical symptoms: reduce 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, anxiety, or feel disconnected from themselves
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
Are sensitive, curious and want to deepen their relationship with themselves
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 or building a better relationship with yourself, support is just a phone call away.
Choose a day and time to connect and talk about how somatic experiencing, or an SE Intensive, can support your healing.