SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® 
​TRAUMA THERAPY 

   Discover Dr Peter Levine’s intuitive approach to overcoming shock and trauma
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
Peter's seminal book 'Waking The Tiger' reveals why this powerful animal is the SE mascot
Somatic Experiencing (SE for short) is a pioneering empowerment model.
​It is a natural body-awareness approach to healing life's big blows. Difficult experiences can either keep us shut down and stuck, or be used to make us stronger, wiser, happier. SE focuses on safely inviting expansion and flow where there is fixation/freeze.​

"Trauma is not a life sentence"
More a training than therapy, SE teaches us to ourselves do the freeing work of overcoming our hurt, anger and pain. Where traditional talking therapy may be said to have scratched the surface of untangling me from the harrowing symptoms of complex trauma, SE met Maggie at her core with an elegant simplicity. "You've completely changed," said her mam. 
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​How does it work?
Focused on the felt-sense (body) above thoughts and emotions (mind), SE encourages us to listen closely to all of ourselves, without judgement, and starts with helping us feel safe inside. With skilful listening, innate new possibilities for recovery and wholeness are revealed. SE helps gradually shift lanes from living a life governed by the past to leading a rich new life rooted in the now, open to the limitless possibilities for good ahead.

LOCATIONS + FEE

ONLINE SESSIONS – INTERNATIONAL
On doxy.me (no registration or download)

IN-PERSON SESSIONS – UK ONLY
in East Sussex TN38 potentially available
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FEE: £75 for 55 minutes
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​WHAT IS SE?

​Somatic Experiencing is the inspired life's work of American psychotherapist Dr Peter Levine who observed that prey animals, though routinely threatened with death, are not traumatised. Their bodies instinctively discharge the high arousal energy characterised by survival behaviours.

Though born with the same instincts, in humans the regulatory flight or fight response can be overridden by overwhelming fear; we ‘freeze.’ When a powerful surge in life force gets locked in the body-mind it can lead to a constellation of symptoms. This is when we may need to reach out and ask for compassionate assistance to find our feet again.​

 The therapeutic Journey by david reis

Somatic Experiencing trauma therapy explained