SOMATIC HEALING

Trauma is a memory stored in our body through our nervous system for self preservation.

It results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening.

This can have lasting adverse effects on our functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Fight, flight, and freeze responses are designed to protect the individual from perceived threats. However, when the trauma is not fully processed—due to its overwhelming nature or lack of immediate coping resources—its imprint can linger in the body. This is often described through the lens of "body memory," where the body holds onto traumatic experiences, even when specific memories might not be consciously accessible.

Some of the most common symptoms of trauma trapped in the body are anxiety, depression, PTSD, addiction, fear, overwhelm, avoidance, mood swings, sleep disturbances, digestive issues, hyper or hypo arousal, chronic pain and autoimmune disorders.

Unlike animals in the wild, humans no longer have access to their instinctual ways of discharging the trauma, so it remains within our bodies and can be extremely detrimental to physical, emotional, and mental health.

TVM is a quantum modality which creates a sense of great safety for our clients through flooding the body with therapeutic levels of oxytocin and co-regulation with the therapist.

We work together to strengthen the body’s resilience to stress and trauma. Using gentle touch we remind the nervous system how to fluidly move between sympathetic and parasympathetic responses, thus building vagal tone, the cornerstone of a healthy nervous system!

Using The Triple Vagal Method I help you feel safe in your body, so it can switch through nervous system states, back and forth. The combination of these allows for the trauma stored in your body to move through and out. What this means is you finally feel safe in your body.

With a high vagal tone you will become more resilient to everyday stresses and challenges. You will then be able to resolve these experiences as they occur in real time.

Clients will come to our clinical setting in comfortable-fitting clothes. Before the first session, we will have an intake conversation where we will go over the treatment process, and your practitioner will learn about traumatic experiences that may have been stored in your body, as much or as little as you are comfortable sharing. We will also learn what current practices and habits may be supporting or inhibiting your healthy nervous system, and finally, we will answer any questions you may have. Then the treatment will begin on the massage table, where clients will remain fully clothed throughout the treatment.