A body oriented therapy aimed at treating trauma and stress-related disorders, such as PTSD. The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response through bottom-up processing (sensations, then emotions, then thoughts).

It can be hands on or hands off and gives great focus to resourcing - helping a client learn to regulate the nervous system, notice and build safety in the body and enjoy life, rather than being driven only by hypervigilance and lack of trust in the body.

Ultimately, it seeks to seeks to repair and complete the natural cycle our bodies possess to release trauma responses. It is about healing at the roots, healing faux windows of tolerance (operating constantly in hyperactivation: anxiety/anger or hypoactivation: numbness and depression), and getting an embodied ability to exist in a wider window of tolerance, which includes being able to tolerate positive and negative sensations more widely.

Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment was developed to provide a trauma-informed approach to the challenges of treating self-destructive behavior.

Based on theoretical principles drawn from the neuroscience research on trauma and structural dissociation theory, TIST offers a treatment approach that integrates mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, ego state techniques, and Internal Family Systems.

It has been used successfully to address the challenges of treating individuals with diagnoses of complex PTSD, borderline personality, bipolar disorder, addictive and eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.

Because it contextualizes self-destructive behavior as trauma-related, patients feel less pathologized, increasing their motivation to overcome self-destructive impulses as a step toward overcoming trauma.

It uses the language of “parts” but in relation to the nervous system (fight, flight, freeze, submit, attach, going on with regular life) and helps integrate the parts, develop greater self regulatory abilities and decrease shame.

The term “polarity” is a broad reference to the concept of positive and negative energy in the body. It is about restoring balance in the whole system through the four pillars of bodywork, counseling, nutrition and exercise.

It helps bring more interoceptive awareness (ability to feel on the inside) and explores embodiments of polarities - opposites, in order to find a more regulated and balanced state.

Rosen Method is based on the pioneering innovation of Marion Rosen. During 70 years as a physical therapist and bodyworker, she developed a unique approach that enhances self-awareness.

The listening touch of a Rosen Method bodywork practitioner leads to deep relaxation, heightened understanding, and greater self-knowledge.

Various parts of the body are associated with emotional experiences, such as the shoulders as the “responsibility muscles” so meaning making through listening to the tension (and hopefully release) of the subtle body is foundational to the practice.

Though typically a hands on approach, it can be adapted to self touch through virtual telehealth, as well as the movements taught by Marion Rosen that create a sense of relaxation in the body.

Ultimately, it helps someone begin to listen deeply to the messages of the body.

A meditative movement approach that helps someone learn how to let their body move them instead of the mind controlling-instructing the body.

It focuses on the transformative cathartic power of being witnessed in movement and witnessing others move.

It helps to release unconscious and sub conscious build up in the MindBody by closing the eyes and waiting for the impulse to move. It is NOT about dancing or aesthetics. It’s about feeling and moving from there, as well as developing an internal witness to your own movement.

Learning how to notice sensations, emotions, images, memories, thoughts and the sequence in which it all arose.

Journaling and verbal processing afterwards is also part of the process when desired.

Is an umbrella of approaches involving dance, music and movement to help one become expressed, emotionally aware, and to work through narratives of self.

It can involves prompts, freestyle, or guided movement to help a person become more embodied - comfortable in their body, as well as as channel for expressing the unconscious and subconsciouos.

It can also be a tool for developing and expanding relational capacities when space and touch are involved.

Cultural somatics is an open-source framework for collective change innovated by Tada Hozumi based on the foundational principle: cultures are bodies made of bodies, and because of this, individual change and collective change are embodied energetic processes that necessarily have a fractal relationship with each other.

Micro pain, such as early childhood trauma, and macro pain, such as misogyny, are all understood to be interrelated energetic issues. Because of this, bringing about fundamental change require us to work on many levels at once. The healing of a childhood wound may require the healing of a million years old ancestral trauma.

Somatic Abolitionism is part of Cultural Somatics and led by Resmaa Menaken and the Cultural Somatics Institute. It is an embodied way of living that builds resilience and discernment, upends white-body supremacy, and trains our bodies, individually and collectively, to rediscover their natural alignment.

Breema is a teaching of the heart, an expression of the unifying principle of Existence. Its purpose is to create harmony and balance between your mind, feelings, and body, and in your relationship to yourself, to others, and to all life.

Self-Breema exercises are gentle subtle self touch movements and sequences that help bring awareness to the body, foster self compassion and attunement and regulate the nervous system into a peaceful awakened state.

It’s Nine Principles of Harmony include making the body comfortable, nothing extra is needed to be yourself beyond existing, firmness and gentleness are never separate, the most natural way of moving and living is with full participation, mutual support: you are able to give because you have received, non-judgemental attitudes, focusing on a single moment with a single activity, no hurrying or pausing just present movement, and no force in each and every moment.

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

Mindfulness is a quality that every human being already possesses, it’s not something you have to conjure up, you just have to learn how to access it.

While mindfulness is innate, it can be cultivated through proven techniques. It is not about clearing your mind and having no thoughts.

It often involves the breath, posture and even gesture, and is often a guided practice in the therapy room.

There are many approaches and languages to energy healing. Reiki is one of them and is a Japanese energy healing approach that uses the energy of universal love through the palms of the hands into, onto and around the body to clear stuck emotions, balance over active or underactive energies and ultimately promote a balanced peaceful internal state. However, it can also be used to attend to physical pain.

It works on the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual levels and can be done IRL or virtually.

Many energy healing modalities and traditions share these benefits and goals with Reiki. Ultimately energy healing is about healing the nervous system through presence, touch, movement and breath often with the support of the practitioner in person or virtually.

Though energy may seem invisible or made up, you can think of it as the vibration and tone emitted by our nervous system - our fight, flight freeze, etc. system that exists throughout our body and brain.

Yoga is a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation - the Asanas.

However there are eight limbs to yoga including the Yamas which have their own specific sub practices such as Satya - truthfulness.

Yoga is used in session to help release tension and emotion in the body, build interoceptive awareness, and develop a stronger connection to the Self and the spirit within.