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Somatic Experiencing®

Somatic Experiencing®  was developed by Peter Levine and is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. This healing modality facilitates people getting connected to their bodies and what is actually going on in their body in the moment, which is important because trauma tends to take us out of our bodies and out of the present moment. SE gently guides clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions and by doing so, addresses root causes of trauma and helps reset the nervous system.

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For more information visit www.traumahealing.org

Selected Books

  1. Levine, PA.

    • (1997). Waking the Tiger, North Atlantic Books. Berkeley, CA.

    • (2010). In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. North Atlantic Books. Berkeley, CA.

    • (2015). Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA

  2. Heller L and LaPierre A. (2012). Healing Developmental Trauma, NOorth Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA

  3. Jackson Nakazawa, D. (2015). Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes your Biology and How You Can Heal. Simon and Schuster, Inc. New York, NY.

  4. Porges,S. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysicological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication and Self-Regulation, WW Norton and Company, New York.

  5. Siegel, DJ. (1999). THe Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are. The Guildford Press, NY.

  6. Siegel DJ and Hartzell M. (2010). Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive. Mind Your Brain, Inc.

  7. Van der Kolk, BA (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Random House. New York, NY. ISSN: 978-0-670-78593-3.Porges, SW. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communications and Self-Regulation, First Edition. WW Norton & Company, Inc. New York, NY. ISBN: 978-0-393-70800-7.

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Selected Media

  1. Toxic Stress, Health, and ACEs for Two Generations; by Ascend at the Aspen Institute

  2. “Paper Tigers”; a documentary about Adverse Childhood Experiences 

  3. The Science of Youth Resilience; by the Resilience Research Centre

  4. 3 Ways Undiagnosed Trauma Disrupts Lives; a short video from the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine discusses signs and symptoms of childhood trauma

  5. Childhood Trauma: America's Hidden Health Crisis; a video from a national meeting sponsored by the CAHMI to begin to the design of a national research and action agenda on ACEs, summarizing the importance of looking at childhood trauma as a health issue

  6. Resilience Among LGBT Youth: Overcoming Victimization; video complementing research from the IMPACT LGBT Health and Development Program at Northwestern University

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