Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-based method of supporting physiological regulation in the autonomic nervous system. This work supports the integration of overwhelming life experiences through the body, whether those occurred early in life, were one-time events, or are ongoing stressors.
My approach to Somatic Experiencing.
As a somatic practitioner, my approach centers that our bodies are wise, complex, adaptive living systems that will choose survival above all else. That means that when we’re working with states of distress during a trauma recovery process, we need to move at the pace the body, utilizing interoceptive and neuroceptive capacities to build reliable connections to our inner and outer resources. To do this, we engage movement and gesture, touch, imagery, sensation, emotion and insight. Over time, this gives the body the ability to integrate the powerful life force energies held in survival states, and teaches our autonomic nervous systems flexibility and flow, increasing an embodied experience of agency, capacity and ease.
I have been a yoga and movement practitioner for 25 years, and a teacher of yoga and somatic practices since 2008. My training in Somatic Experiencing includes receiving my Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) certificate from the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute, founded by Dr. Peter Levine. Additionally, I have studied Somatic Resilience and Regulation with Kathy Kain PhD and Steve Terrell PsyD and Touch Skills for Complex Trauma with Kathy Kain PhD as well as NeuroAffective Touch with Aline LaPierre PsyD. I currently serve as an assistant at Somatic Experiencing Trainings.
"Thank you so much Kate! You are truly a healer-I said this about you when I went to your yoga classes years ago- and it’s so very true. You have helped me so much-in so many ways." -MW
