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Release Anxiety With Somatic Experiencing
What Is Somatic Experiencing?
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Somatic therapy is a form of body-based healing that emphasizes the powerful connection between mind and body. This approach recognizes how trauma in the body can affect emotions, health, and daily life. Through practices such as body-based therapy, gentle movement, breathwork, and mindfulness, somatic therapy supports nervous system regulation and healing. Techniques like somatic healing and vagus nerve activation help release tension, restore balance, and create a greater sense of safety and calm in both body and mind.
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How Anxiety Lives in the Body
Anxiety isn’t just something we think about—it often shows up physically in the body. Tight shoulders, a racing heart, shallow breathing, or an upset stomach are all signs of how the nervous system holds stress. These sensations are the body’s way of signaling overwhelm, and when left unprocessed, they can keep you stuck in a cycle of tension and fear. Somatic experiencing helps you gently notice and release these patterns, restoring balance and calm so your body and mind can feel safe again.
What a Somatic Session Looks Like
A somatic therapy session is gentle, collaborative, and guided at your pace. Instead of only talking about your experiences, you’ll be invited to notice sensations in your body and how they connect to emotions or memories. Practices may include breathwork, grounding exercises, body scans, or simple movements to help release tension and support nervous system regulation. Each session is tailored to your comfort level, creating a safe space to reconnect with your body and build resilience over time. Renee Lederman, LPC offers a safe, supportive space for individuals & couples seeking relief and resilience through the power of Somatic Experiencing.
Manage Stress with Somatic Experincing
Renee’s Approach
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a pioneering body-oriented therapy that focuses on resolving trauma and stress disorders. It is a gentle yet profound path to healing that encourages you to tune into your body’s wisdom, helping you to release trapped energy and emotions resulting from traumatic events. Renee’s approach is centered around guiding you through the sensations present in your body, enabling a natural and guided return to equilibrium and strength.
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Benefits of Somatic Therapy for Anxiety
Somatic therapy for anxiety recognizes that anxious thoughts are often linked to how the body holds stress. By working directly with the body through gentle, mindful techniques, you can regulate your nervous system, release what’s been stored, and create lasting relief that goes beyond traditional talk therapy.
Calms the Nervous System
Breathwork and grounding techniques help ease stress and bring the body back into balance.
Releases Stored Tension
Somatic practices free the body from trauma and tightness that fuel ongoing anxiety.
Builds Resilience
Learning body-based tools strengthens self-trust and creates lasting confidence in managing anxious feelings.
Q&A: About Somatic Experiencing
Who can benefit from Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing is beneficial for anyone who has experienced trauma, whether from acute stressors such as accidents and surgeries or from chronic situations like prolonged emotional distress. It’s also highly effective for those dealing with anxiety, depression, and other stress-related conditions. Somatic experiencing can also help couples and individuals struggling with intimacy or love addiction.
How does SE differ from traditional talk therapy?
Unlike traditional talk therapy that primarily engages with thoughts and emotions through conversation, SE emphasizes the body’s role in trauma recovery. It works on the principle that trauma symptoms are the effects of dysregulation in the body’s nervous system and that by addressing these somatic experiences, healing can occur.
How can Somatic Experiencing help me?
SE is effective for a wide range of issues including but not limited to chronic stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other trauma-related disorders. It can also help individuals dealing with physical symptoms without a clear medical cause, as these can sometimes be linked to emotional or psychological stress.
What does a typical somatic therapy session include?
A session is gentle, collaborative, and always tailored to your comfort level. You might practice breathwork, body scans, grounding techniques, or small movements to help release stress and reconnect with your body. Each session also includes reflection, so you leave with greater awareness and tools you can use outside of therapy to manage anxiety in daily life.
Do I need to relive my traumatic experiences during therapy?
No, one of the key elements of SE is to help you heal without having to relive the traumatic events. The focus is on bodily sensations and regulating the nervous system rather than on the cognitive recounting of the event.
How does somatic experiencing work for anxiety?
Somatic experiencing helps calm anxiety by focusing on the body, not just the mind. Instead of only talking through worries, this approach guides you to notice sensations—like tension, racing heart, or shallow breathing—and gently release them. Over time, this body-based awareness helps regulate your nervous system, reduce overwhelm, and build a greater sense of calm and safety.
Is somatic therapy evidence-based?
Yes. Research shows that somatic therapies can effectively reduce symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and stress. By targeting the nervous system regulation directly, somatic approaches often complement traditional talk therapy and provide additional tools for healing. At Relational Healing, somatic work is integrated with other evidence-based practices to create a holistic, personalized path toward recovery.
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