Trauma Resolution

Somatic healing is a body-centered, gentle approach to trauma recovery and emotional well-being. It addresses how stress and past experiences become stored in our bodies. Somatic therapy can help support nervous system regulation, resilience, and self-healing.  

If you are feeling stuck, disembodied or you just know trauma is holding you back, book an appointment with me today! 

Below, let me share a little about somatic therapy, its techniques, and its benefits.

What is somatic healing therapy, and how can it help support trauma recovery?

My somatic healing therapy is a body-centered approach to healing that can help release trauma, stress, and emotional pain stored in the body. Unlike traditional talk therapy, which primarily focuses on thoughts and emotions, somatic therapy gently engages your nervous system to uncover the past experiences that are held physically. 

Through mindful awareness, body-based techniques, and nervous system regulation practices, somatic healing can help restore your sense of safety and ease.

Somatic Experiencing, developed by Dr. Peter Levine, is a world-renowned method at the forefront of modern healing techniques. It utilizes gentle body awareness to help process and renegotiate traumatic experiences, facilitating a return to a state of balance and well-being. This approach aligns with modern neuroscience, showing how the mind and body are deeply interconnected in healing.

What are somatic healing techniques, and how do they work?

Somatic healing techniques are practical tools that help you reconnect the mind and body, guiding your nervous system toward balance. These techniques often focus on your sensory awareness, movement, and grounding practices to release stored tension, unresolved emotions and promote healing.

Here are just a few examples:

1. Grounding Exercises: Practices like feeling your feet on the ground or holding a comforting object can help you feel present and safe in your body.

2. Body Scanning: Gently noticing sensations in different parts of your body encourages awareness and connection.

3. Titration: A Somatic Experiencing® method that works by gently dipping into and out of challenging sensations to process trauma without overwhelm.

4. Orienting: Slowly looking around your environment to remind your nervous system that the present moment is safe.

5. Somatic Movement or Dance: Moving in natural and intuitive ways to release built-up stress.

These techniques are designed to help regulate the nervous system, release trapped trauma, and help you build healthier coping habits over time.

What are the benefits of somatic healing, and who can it help?

Somatic healing offers a range of benefits by addressing the root of stress and trauma in the body. Whether you're navigating anxiety, chronic pain, trauma, or burnout, somatic practices can help by supporting your nervous system's natural capacity to heal. Key benefits include:

• Improved Nervous System Regulation: This helps you move from a state of fight, flight, or freeze to a calm, grounded state.

• Reduced Physical and Emotional Tension: This release of trauma stored in the body relieves chronic pain, tension, discomfort, and improves digestive issues.

• Enhanced Resilience: Builds a more substantial capacity to navigate stress and recover from challenges.

• Better Emotional Awareness: It increases one's ability to connect with and process emotions in a safe and embodied way.

• Empowered Self-Healing: Encourages a deeper trust in your body’s wisdom and innate healing ability.

Somatic healing benefits anyone seeking to recover from trauma, enhance emotional well-being, or reconnect with their body, making it a practical approach for individuals and practitioners.

My Start With Trauma

Not too long ago, in what feels like a past life now, I was filled with the aftermath of Trauma…

At the time I didn’t know that’s what it was.

I was drowning in shame, lived with chronic pain, and suffered through lonely depressive times before I discovered the profound impact of somatic therapy and somatic healing. I was constantly overriding my internal messages, I said yes to things I really wanted to say no to, and I embarrassingly continued to create the most dysfunctional relationships.

I was suffering & felt trapped in my experience.

Needless to say, I went on a journey studying trauma resolution and body-based healing methods.

But basically, the long and the short of it goes a little like this:

After having a really big wake up call, where my deeper issues had surfaced and became blatantly obvious, smacking me in the face…

I did what I do – turned towards it and began my next soul cycle of healing.

I had already taken myself through deep psychotherapy, energy healing & soul work.

So where do I turn to now?

This question steered me toward somatic therapy and other body-based trauma resolution work, ultimately guiding me to somatic healing therapy practices that now support my clients.  

In 2017 I enrolled in a somatic healing for people with trauma(soma = body) based coaching program & by 2020 had become a practitioner of 5 body-oriented approaches: 

• Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

• Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Practitioner

• Yamuna Body Rolling Practitioner

• Certified Sex, Love & Relationship Coach

• Alchemical Alignment: Trauma Resolution & Embodiment of Spirit Practitioner

During this time, I worked with two of the most gifted somatic therapists I know, studied rigorously in somatic experiencing therapy, and began weaving these body-based trauma resolution approaches into my work.

I resolved the deep-rooted developmental trauma that was plaguing my relationships and grew into a secure attachment style.

The long held chronic pain began to evaporate as I began to have more energy and feel lighter.

Healed boundary ruptures, and I began to own my voice, I began to live congruently with my yes’s and no’s.

I became deeply embodied, listened to, and followed its impulses and began making healthier choices in many areas of life.

The depression lifted, anxiety lessened, and my confidence soared.

I began to feel light & free in a way I had only dreamed of.

My internal reality shifted profoundly, and these changes rippled into my life, showing the beauty of somatic experiencing exercises and how deeply this work touches all aspects of life.

I embodied these somatic healing methods as they anchored deeply into my bones and became central to my trauma recovery and the healing work I now share. And I began weaving the trauma resolution work & body-based approaches into my existing work with clients.

And the most amazing transformations have been occurring:

I had been suffering from worsening anxiety for which I saw a therapist and psychiatrist to treat… Sessions weren’t helping, and meds caused me to progress to full blown panic attacks that were detrimental to my everyday life.

I was looking for an alternative and found Brianna… Through working with her on trauma resolution and my nervous system dysregulation, my panic attacks have all but stopped and my anxiety is minimal!!!

Female, age 34, Registered Nurse

For the majority of my life, I had been suffering from debilitating stomach problems and poor digestion until I experienced somatic symptom disorder treatment, which brought me true relief.

Before treatment, these stomach problems controlled my life; I was always nauseous after eating every meal or even just something as simple as an apple…

Bri made me feel seen and validated, and that is something I have never had before. After two sessions with her, we did somatic trauma resolution work, and my entire life has done a 180. The problems I had with my stomach have gone away completely, and I have cried of joy to so many of my friends and family at how my life has changed BECAUSE of the work Bri did with me.

I have already gained six pounds back that my body needed! I have tried so many different things to try and remedy that issue (talk therapy, CBT, etc.) and nothing had worked until I went to Bri. She is an amazing human and healer.

Female, age 26, Student

So, if traditional talk therapy or energy healing isn’t quite getting you where you need to be,

if your body and heart aren’t aligned in a sacred way.

if you are continuing to live out old themes or woundings that are manifesting into your present-day life.

or if you are suffering with PTSD, living with trauma responses, and/or feel like you are somehow ‘different’ and don’t know how to find your way back.

I am happily here to help!

In my trauma resolution work with clients, I support them in resolving trauma imprints embedded in their body, heart, mind and soul through somatic healing therapy and somatic experiences and:  

• Process the deeply held emotions causing or potentially leading to ailments in the body through somatic therapy and somatic psychology, which bring holistic relief

• Boundary repair work.

• Support in becoming more stable and regulated through somatic healing therapy, bringing a sense of peace to clients healing from trauma. Educate and help people embody trauma healing principals so they can orient and move through life with more presence and internal peace.

• Move out of an existence where they feel broken or wounded and into wholeness where they feel spiritually connected and are more freely able to live from the truth of their being while living the life of their dreams.

Wherever you are, know your story isn’t over yet. Healing is possible and I am here to help you learn and remember how.