• A modality/approach that is considered bottom up. This means that we include the body in the work that we do. Such as; sensations, feelings, shapes, mindfulness, and the nervous system. 

• The body is full of information and it is deeply wise. The body holds stories and patterns of our lives as well as that of our lineage. 

• The field of Somatics did not start with western psychology. Incorporating the body in healing has been a part of indigenous, ancestral, and Eastern medicine.

A modality that focuses on creating timelines of your life in order to create more neural integration and a sense of core self.

• It is important to included the nervous system in our work when addressing any experience, especially trauma. This is done by implementing skills and tools that update our systems in finding resources internally and externally. 

• This may look like finding grounding, internal support, external signals of safety, and vagal toning (just to name a few). 

• This is a modality that works with your internal experience and the many “parts of you”. It’s a non-pathologizing way to approach our internal experience. This is a way to get to know defense mechanisms as well as the parts of us that have been wounded.

• The hope is that through this work we can see ourselves with more compassion and clarity.