Our bodies respond to experience. Fear makes our heart race and joy brings a smile to our face, filling us with lightness and expansion. Our experience comes alive in our body, and our past experiences live on in our body.

In somatic psychotherapy, the body becomes a precious site of learning and growth. The ways we might work together somatically include increasing inner awareness, by learning to listen to your body, and using psychotherapeutic touch. How we work is shaped uniquely by each client and may change over time.

I practice a style of therapeutic touch called the Tamura Method. This modality works directly with your wounding, which can be accessed through the body. Safety and connection, developed through the therapeutic relationship, are the foundation of this process. For more information about the Tamura Method please visit http://tamuramethod.com/

“To reawaken our senses means that we reawaken to pain and sadness as well as joy and pleasure. Not only must we come to new terms with the pain and hurt of our life history, but also to a new accommodation with the joyful and painful realities of the present. The former requires the caring support of someone who can help us survive our pain, and whom we trust enough to guide us through the labyrinth of confusing feelings. The latter requires that we find the courage to stand in the world and accept the fullness of life, rather than exist only half alive.”

-James Kepner