Somatic Experiencing

Shock and trauma are the door to transformation

Practice for body therapy and trauma therapy
in Munich-Schwabing and Berlin-Kreuzberg

Shock and trauma can help us to grow

Somatic Experiencing®, founded by Peter Levine, is a body awareness method to heal trauma. In the present moment or the here and now, the focus of the client is on the perception of his sensory impressions or body sensations. This allows the emotional and physiological effects of trauma, shock, stress and related anxiety and depression to subside and dissolve.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) helps you to become aware of how your body responds to stress or threat. If, for example, you react with helplessness and collapse, you can now find new, appropriate answers. In the SE session you will learn that an overwhelming event takes place physiologically in the body and that your body has the ability to overcome such an event.

Psychological Trauma Symptoms

  • Flashbacks and nightmares
  • Avoidance behaviour
  • Emotional deafness
  • Excessive vigilance
  • anxiety
  • Panic, panic attacks,
  • Danger is attractive
  • Depression, lethargy
  • Emotional fluctuations, helplessness
  • Sleep problems
  • Concentration problems
  • Orientation problems
  • Contact problems
  • Decision-making difficulties
  • Feelings of alienation = derealisation
  • Loneliness
  • OPverwhelming demand
  • Everything is too much

Physiological Trauma Symptoms

  • Tension in the flexor muscles
  • Headache
  • Neck pain
  • Eye pains
  • Irregular heartbeat
  • Excessive alcohol consumption
  • Painkillers and sedatives consumption
  • Drug use as self-medication
  • Numbness, discomfort
  • Hypersensitive to light, noises, odours
  • Ticks, twitches
  • Physical exhaustion
  • Diarrhoea inexplicable
  • Bedwetting with children
  • Extreme eagerness to perform

…long list of symptoms here.

If the symptoms subside within six weeks of the shock event, it is a normal adjustment reaction without trauma. If the symptoms last longer than six weeks, it is probably a trauma. Basically, the more intense the shock, the higher the probability of trauma. But even an insignificant car accident with car body damage can cause a trauma. – The symptoms occur immediately after the shock situation or with a delay of up to 18 months. – The symptoms appear insidiously and can persist for years. – The symptoms are sometimes bizarre, very individual and difficult for you to classify. – As a rule, your fellow human beings do not notice what is going on in you.

Singel session: Duration 60min / 90min

Price: 90€ / 135€

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Somatic Experiencing – What is it? – An introduction

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List of symptoms of shock-trauma

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Basics of Somatic Experiencing

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Trauma session after car accident

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What is a trauma?

Every person can have experiences in everyday life that overwhelm him and frighten him beyond all measure. He can get into a car accident, become a victim of an attack or watch a loved one die. Such drastic experiences can deeply impress a person and also hurt him psychologically. Such an injury is called "trauma".
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