The essence of trauma is disconnection.
How did we get separated and how do we reconnect?
Gabor Maté

Trauma

When an experience has been too fast, too unexpected and too overwhelming for you, it can get stuck in your body. You get stuck in a fight, flight or freeze response. This can manifest as chronic stress, alertness, being easily irritated, etc. Trauma can also occur if there was a lack of support and safety in our childhood. This can deeply affect how you experience life today.

Trauma treatment with body-oriented therapy will help you process these experiences in a gentle way, freeing you from identification with past experiences and allowing you to increasingly connect with your own core.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing works with overwhelming life experiences. We focus on the body, the felt sense and the stress patterns underlying the intense emotions. The aim is to support the nervous system in self-regulation, by safely and gradually discharging the survival energy that has taken hold in your body. This will help you move from fragmentation to integration, thereby restoring your sense of well-being.

Touch

Traumatic experiences are often stored at the level of the brainstem, where automatic survival responses such as startle, freezing, or withdrawal arise, often before there are words or images. By working with touch around these deeper layers, space can emerge to notice subtle impulses, tensions, or directions within the body. We work together by slowing down and attuning to what wants to reveal itself from within. In this way, step by step, greater regulation, orientation, and a sense of safety can develop, both within yourself and in contact with others.

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