Healing Trauma at the Root Level of the Autonomic Nervous System with Somatic and Experiential Pathways.
Are you seeking somatic therapy?
Many people seek something deeper from therapy, which is an approach that doesn't just manage symptoms, but actually resolves the physical imprints of trauma. Instead of trying to think or talk your way through trauma, our bottom-up experiential therapies work directly with the body and psyche in the present moment. This is where trauma lives, and where it can finally shift.
We integrate specialized somatic modalities to offer your nervous system just enough safety, pacing, and containment to complete unfinished survival responses and step into long-term regulation.
Some of our somatic therapy offerings include:
Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP)
Trauma Integration Protocol
Somatic Experiencing
1. Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP)
An experiential, body-based modality rooted in active relationship.
PSIP is an interactive, somatic framework where healing happens through the therapist's steady presence, attunement, and guidance. The therapist provides a direct relational container so the autonomic nervous system has the safety it needs to bring forward overwhelming survival material.
Unlike silent eyeshade psychedelic sessions, PSIP relies on active relational support grounded in psychodynamic and attachment theory through the therapist's steady presence and guidance.
The Three Pillars of PSIP
The model rests on a multi-dimensional foundation:
ANS-Based Somatic Psychotherapy: Engaging the autonomic nervous system's survival states directly.
Access to Primary Consciousness: Bypassing defenses to reach deep psychic material.
Psychodynamic & Attachment Foundations: Harnessing safe human connection to resolve relational trauma.
What to Expect
Preparation & Talking: Building a secure foundation by exploring history and dynamics beforehand.
The Relational Solution: Unlike traditional psychedelic work where clients wear eyeshades in silence, PSIP uses your interaction with the therapist to break through looping trauma cycles.
The Medicine Option: Sessions can include legally prescribed medicines such as ketamine or cannabis to lower psychological defense barriers. However, medicines are entirely optional. The model remains highly effective using only the relationship and your natural nervous system.
Intensity & Non-Linear Progress: Allowing raw survival states to emerge in real time with non-linear pacing.
The Power of Integration: Utilizing individual sessions and a dedicated Group Integration Circle for collective stabilization.
What to Expect: Preparation sessions build trust by exploring your history and defensive dynamics. Experiential sessions can be emotionally or physically intense as unfinished fight, flight, freeze, or dissociation states surface to reorganize. Dedicated individual and group integration circles follow to ground these new patterns into daily life.
2. Trauma Integration Protocol (TIP)
Establishing absolute safety, predictability, and choice.
Trauma Integration Protocol is the foundational floor upon which all our somatic interventions rest. Rather than treating trauma as an isolated symptom, TIP assumes that an over-activated or shut-down nervous system requires an entirely adapted environment to heal safely.
Collaborative Pacing: In TIP, you are the absolute authority on your body. Every step of your session is collaborative, transparent, and proceeds only with your explicit ongoing consent.
De-escalating the Threat Response: We systematically screen for and mitigate elements that trigger unconscious threat responses. This includes clear boundary setting, physical space predictability, and honoring your system's defensive coping mechanisms as wise, necessary protections rather than pathologies.
Empowerment Over Compliance: Traditional medical models often force patients into rigid tracks. TIP actively hands power back to you, restoring the autonomy and choice that trauma originally stripped away.
3. Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Negotiating and releasing shock trauma through body awareness.
Somatic Experiencing treats trauma not as a psychological flaw, but as a biological injury caused by trapped survival energy. When an overwhelming event occurs, the nervous system primes itself to fight or flee. If those actions are thwarted, that massive charge of energy gets locked into the body, causing chronic anxiety, hypervigilance, fibromyalgia, or numbness.
Tracking Body Sensation: SE focuses heavily on interoception—tuning into visual tracking, internal tension, temperature shifts, and heart rate to see where your body is storing survival stress.
Titration and Pendulation: We work slowly and gently, moving back and forth between states of resource/comfort and states of minor activation. This gradual, titrated release is designed to keep intensity manageable, so your system is not overwhelmed all at once.
Completing the Loop: By safely mimicking or allowing small biological completion responses (like a subtle tremor, deep sigh, or protective movement), the body uncoils its ancient freeze response and realizes the danger has passed.
Who Are These Somatic Pathways For?
Our unified bottom-up approach is specifically supportive for individuals who:
Feel "stuck in their heads" or trapped in talk-therapy loops where they understand why they feel bad but can't change how their body reacts.
Notice patterns of dissociation that do not clear through traditional therapy alone.
Carry chronic physical symptoms of trauma, such as constant hypervigilance, panic, brain fog, fatigue, or deep emotional shutdown.
Experience relational challenges, such as structural difficulty trusting others, chronic reactivity, or getting trapped in looping, protective dynamics.
Are ready to step beyond surface-level interventions and engage in patient, safe, and profoundly transformative root-level work.