Somatic Therapy Near Tulsa, OK

What Is Somatic Therapy? Somatic therapy incorporates the mind, body, and spirit into therapeutic healing work. Somatic therapy aims to treat the effects of PTSD and other mental and emotional health issues through the connection of mind and body and uses a body-centric approach. Unlike standard mental health therapy types like CBT that focus prominently on the mind, somatic therapy incorporates body-oriented modalities such as dance, breathwork, and meditation to support patients through their healing journeys. In addition, somatic therapy sessions include coaching therapy and mind-body exercises.  This therapy aims to help release how a physical body holds on to stress, tension, and trauma, rather than only resolving problems verbally. Rather than just talk about their problems, somatic therapists guide patients to focus on their underlying physical sensations. From there, the mind-body exercises may include breath work, meditation, visualization, massage, grounding, dance, and/or sensation awareness work.  Beyond the standard somatic therapy, numerous Somatic therapy techniques include:

Developing more awareness of your body and its sensations

Calling upon emotional resources, Grounding Encouraging detailed descriptions

Movement, including acting out of physical feelings, Learning tools to calm oneself

Alternating focus between something stressful and something not stressful to help release tension

Replaying past situations with new physical tools

Emotional release

Strengthening boundaries. 

Anyone can try somatic therapy as an alternative to conventional talk therapy. It is used for a variety of mental and physical health issues.  Mental health issues that somatic therapy is used for include:  PTSD

Anxiety

Addiction

People Pleasing

Perfectionism

Grief

Depression

Stress. 

Physically somatic therapy may assist with: 

Chronic pain

Digestive disorders

Sexual dysfunction. 

Because of its focuses on grounding and mindfulness, this therapy can be an effective option for anyone looking to get more in touch with themselves and their experiences in life.          verywellmind.com

Somatic Therapy  works with the body focusing on your sensory system.  Based on the premise that all trauma is unexpressed emotion that is stored in our body or subconscious body.  We will work together to get you in touch with your feelings and what you have to do with your body in order to feel what you experience in life.  Using a plethora of tools and modalities, we can increase your awareness of patterns of behavior that keep you stuck in life and unleash you from the constraints of anxiety, depression, people pleasing, perfectionism etc.