Trauma

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

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 have a huge impact on how you are now.

Body-oriented trauma 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.

NARM
If there was insufficient support and safety in your childhood, this can have a lot of impact on how you are in life now. In your early childhood, you developed certain behavioural patterns. These strategies, which were necessary to survive at the time, are often used unconsciously as an adult. What was helpful then may now be getting in the way of your contact with yourself and others. Getting more clarity on this can help you find a new, freer way of relating.

How does a session work?
We begin with an orienting conversation in which you can tell how you are doing and what you like to get out of this session for yourself. Your wish is the common thread of our work together. We explore the topic further during the conversation. Then you lie down on the massage table. Touch, with respect for your bounderies, is meant to help you get more into your body and your feelings. In this way you can explore the processes that are at work inside you on a deeper level. We often conclude by looking back at your wish we started with. This helps to integrate the changes that have taken place.

When do you choose trauma treatment?

For unprocessed overwhelming experiences.
For trauma symptoms, such as shame, guilt, pain, panic, anxiety, chronic stress, feelings of being overwhelmed and helpless, being stuck.

Practical

A session lasts 1,5 hour.
To give your process sufficient depth, it is important to come more often. Especially if trauma originated in childhood, a longer period of working together will be advisable.

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website: Somatic Experiencing
website: NARM