Kara's Creative Counseling, LLC

I utilize Somatic Experience (SE) and somatic counseling to help clients with anxiety, depression, and past trauma. Somatic Experiencing aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these states.
The Somatic Experiencing approach 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 the trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for complex bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.