Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life threat and accumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person's ability to function with resilience and ease. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors, such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.

 

Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a form of somatic therapy in Singapore. The lifework of Dr. Peter A. Levine, Somatic Experiencing integrates physiology, psychology, biology, and neuroscience. Somatic Experiencing is a body-oriented therapeutic approach for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It focuses on bodily sensation and its connection with image, emotions, behaviour, and meaning. 

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How it works

Somatic Experiencing therapists facilitate their client's awareness of the physiological cues in response to a trigger or physiological reaction. Therapists use different mind-body techniques to help their clients release trauma, toxic stress, and tension in the body. The Somatic Experiencing practitioners use SIBAM (Sensation, Imagery, Behaviour, Affect (emotion), and Meaning) to help their clients incorporate their bodies in processing trauma.

 

The Somatic Experiencing approach is effective in releasing traumatic shock 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. It also provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.

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Who it is for?

Somatic Experiencing Therapists have extensively used Somatic Experiencing to support the resolution of PTSD and developmental attachment trauma. 

 

Somatic Experiencing can help individuals who have experienced trauma or to navigate through anxiety, depression and grief. It is also helpful for healing chronic pain and supporting athletes, performers, and others to work through stress and emotions which hampered their confidence.

EMDR is another well-known and researched validated trauma therapy. EMDR therapists found the integration of EMDR with Somatic Experiencing positively helpful to help individuals with anxiety, addictions, eating disorders, mood disorders, OCD, and somatoform disorders (where physical symptoms seem to have no explanation). 

 

Restoring Peace provides somatic healing in Singapore and online through our therapist, who attends Somatic Experiencing training conducted by faculties from the trainers of Somatic Experiencing International. For more information, please contact us through the online enquiry form or email us at contact@restoringpeace.com.sg.