Sarah Corrin

CHRONIC STRESS or TRAUMA can remain stuck in our bodies from personal, cultural, ancestral, and collective or inter-generational adversity.

This can result in anxiety, depression, emotional reactivity, pain, complicated grief, insomnia, PTSD, loss of vitality, and relationship dysfunction.

WHAT CAN A SOMATIC APPROACH HELP ME WITH?

If you live in a chronic state of hyper-arousal or fight/flight/freeze/people pleasing; if it is difficult to feel joy or energy in your day to day life; if you have had acute or chronic stress in your life; if your relationship with your loved ones or yourself is not as you would like it to be, or if you have had trauma in your life, a mind-body approach can help restore the nervous system, emotional states and behavioural patterns.

In Somatic Therapy, change and healing emerge from bottom-up, right-brain ways of knowing. We listen to the truth of our lives as expressed by our bodies. Essentially, paying mindful attention to the wisdom of the body, and attuning to the language of our body, naturally facilitates the very healing we are seeking. It is a process that allows us to live more authentically and further frees up our life force to be more of who we are in the world.

This is a counselling approach that draws on the wisdom of the body, neurobiology, and attachment studies to resolve shock and developmental traumas that can result in depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, stuck relationship patterns, addiction, emotional dysregulation, and a diminished life force.   The resolution of trauma can free up one's emotional, creative, and spiritual energies.  

WHY SOMATIC THERAPY?

In Somatic Therapy we come to know ourselves at a deep level, and the wholeness within - allowing us to be fully present to ourselves and our lives in compassionate and joyful ways.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. - Rumi

I believe that an attuned and resonant therapeutic relationship is the vehicle for healing the emotional wounds that bring one to therapy. Many people live full and effective professional and work lives, yet find their relationships to self, others, or the world fraught with struggle or pain.

In my practice, I draw from a somatic approach to the resolution of trauma. In working therapeutically with the left brain story (thought, logic, concept, beliefs) AND the right brain story (sensation, gesture, feeling, emotion, imagery) we arrive at meaning, purpose and freedom from the constricted patterning in our nervous systems. With each strand of unconscious or repressed material that is processed, new and re-embodied life force and vitality become available for living with more vitality, authenticity and creativity.

Essentially, paying mindful attention to the wisdom of the body, and attuning to the energetic patterns in our body, naturally facilitates the very healing we are seeking – allowing us to be and bring more of who are meant to be into the world.

EMBODIMENT AS A PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION: 

As a somatic therapist, I am committed to centering the position of the "body" as the prime locus of therapeutic attention. I understand an individual's body is both sovereign, and yet also not separate from the relational, community, collective, natural, and ancestral networks within which the body is embedded. I acknowledge that as a somatic therapist who centers the body and embodiment as the primary foundations of individual and collective well-being, that I am engaging in acts of decolonization and reclamation of truth, wisdom, inner healing intelligence, and sovereignty.