What is Somatic Experiencing®?
Trauma and shock can be overcome.
Everyone has already suffered one or more light or severe trauma in life.
Somatic Experiencing® is a proven body awareness method to heal trauma. The focus of the client is directed in the “here and now” on the perception of his / her body sensations or sensory impressions. This allows the emotional and physiological effects of stress, shock, and trauma, and associated anxiety and depression, to fade and dissipate.
In a life-threatening situation, e.g. if a tiger suddenly stands in front of you, people react instinctively. There are 3 different reactions available: Fight or flight or, if these are not possible, the person will freeze. As a result, the provided survival energy remains trapped in the nervous system.
Somatic Experiencing helps you realize how your body reacts to threat or stress. In the session, you will learn that an overwhelming event occurs physiologically in the body and that your body can overcome such an event.
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The Founder of Somatic Experiencing®
Peter Alan Levine (born February 19, 1942) is an American biophysicist, psychologist, Certified Advanced Rolfer, and body-oriented trauma therapist.
Levine holds a PhD in biophysics and psychology. He developed the Somatic Experiencing method in a holistic approach to trauma resolution. The method starts with the body awareness of the client and works with his body memory to resolve shock trauma. An extended SE approach is also suitable for treating developmental trauma.
Levine teaches his method worldwide. In October 2010 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Body Psychotherapists. As a stress consultant, he was involved in the NASA project on space shuttle development and as a member of the psychologists for social responsibility in the development of practical aids in the event of natural disasters and the consequences of war.
His dissertation in 1976 at the University of California, Berkeley was entitled Accumulated Stress, Reserve Capacity, and Disease.
