Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professional settings including psychotherapy, medicine, teaching, and physical therapy, for healing trauma and other stress disorders.

​It is the product of Dr. Peter Levine’s lifelong multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics. The SE™ approach releases traumatic shock stored in the body and is an important key to healing PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.

Somatic Experiencing facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and emotions, thereby improving the capacity for self-regulation. SE helps people understand their body’s response to trauma and works through both a “top down” and  a “bottom-up” approach to healing.

For further information:  https://traumahealing.org/se-101/