Somatic Experiencing® focusing on the psychosocial biology of our somatic experience, to be present and discharge trauma and stress from the body.

Somatic Experiencing® is a naturalistic approach to the resolution and healing of trauma developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Somatic Experiencing® is based upon the realization that human beings have the innate ability to overcome the effects of trauma, and restore their nervous system and self to a balanced state. SE® restores self-regulation of the emotional and nervous systems, thereby allowing the traumatized individuals to return to a sense of aliveness, relaxation, and wholeness, gifts that they had taken away from them.

Dr. Levine has applied his work to combat veterans, rape survivors, Holocaust survivors, auto accident, post surgical trauma, natural disaster survivors, man-made disaster survivors, chronic pain sufferers, and even to infants, who suffered traumatic births. 

SE® offers a framework to assess where in the autonomic system an individual is "stuck", whether it be in the flight, fight, freeze, or collapse responses. Somatic Experiencing® provides clinical tools to facilitate the resolution of these fixed physiological states.