Somatic Coaching
Somatic Coaching will combine all the elements discussed above and the foundations of Somatic Experiencing (SE). Somatic Experiencing resolves symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, freeze, appease, or dissociate, SE helps us release, recover, and access more of our resilience. Most people worldwide have traumatic experiences in their lifetime, which can have major impacts on their health and well-being. Even those who may be unsure if they have experienced trauma are likely to have developed conditioned tendencies from childhood that may impact their adult functioning and relationships.
Coaching focuses on skills, techniques, exercises, strategies, education, practice, and application. Coaching is not intended to diagnose mental health concerns, prescribe, or treatment plan for psychological factors.
Facilitated by: Dr. Danica Harris, SEP, Morenike Olorunnisomo, LPC, SEP, RYT, & Dr. Brittany Escuriex
COACHING SESSIONS DESIGNED TO HELP YOU GET BACK IN YOUR BODY
Trauma shifts us out of our bodies, and healing requires us to return home to ourselves. Our bodies store information from the past that can create activation and unrest in the present. When we’ve endured something harmful, violent, abusive, or neglectful we may find that our brain and body don’t effectively communicate with one another, thus making it difficult to differentiate the ‘back then’ from the ‘right now’. Through learning how to be gentle with ourselves, and beginning to befriend our internal experience, we can feel into the changes we’ve long been yearning for.
What is coaching:
how is coaching different from therapy:
Coaching does not follow a medical model, and no mental health evaluation or diagnosis will be given. Medical and clinical treatment plans will not be utilized in coaching sessions and coaching is not a substitute for therapeutic mental health treatment. You may choose to work with a coach, a therapist, or both.
- Learning to be gentle with yourself
- Coming to understand your trauma responses
- Releasing held fight, flight, freeze energy
- Shifting your physiology when activated or triggered
- Exploring the link between past experiences and here and now behaviors
- Understanding how your body keeps you safe
- Befriending your body
- Building self-trust
- Attending to your highly sensitive nervous system
- Addressing physical, emotional, and psychological pain
- Understanding relationship patterns, dynamics, and cycles
- Building personal and professional integration
- Increasing coherence and integration
- Improving emotional regulation and containment skills
Some topics that can be addressed in somatic coaching:
"I have personally experienced the value of somatic work and doing my own healing has strengthened my relationship with my body. Helping folks heal is such a passion of mine and I’ve been amazed at what can happen when we invite the body into the conversation. "
As a result of my own healing journey, I came to understand that we can’t leave the body out when it comes to our healing. Somatic work is not a therapy modality, it is a way of understanding trauma and the body. Coaching affords me more flexibility in my work and enables me to reach people I may not have otherwise.
Morenike loves working with those who have tried talk therapy and want to incorporate their body in their healing. She provides both in person and virtual sessions for those wanting to build a personal somatic and/or yoga practice and she is especially skilled at working with folks with significant dissociation, doing boundary work, and supporting other therapists.
Advanced Somatic Experiencing Student
EFT for Couples
Session Rate: $225
Brittany Escuriex, Ph.D.
"One of the things I love most about somatic work is providing a safe container for folks to gently, maybe hesitantly, come back to themselves–helping to embody the understanding that everything we need to heal is already within us. "
The mind and body are intricately connected. Emotions, thoughts, and experiences often manifest in physical sensations and bodily reactions. Exploring and addressing these bodily experiences can provide deeper insights into our emotional and mental well-being. Whether we are working individually or doing couples work, it is extremely beneficial to attend to all of the nervous systems in the room.
Brittany loves working with those healing from relational distress, creating healthy relationships and boundaries, and those with anxious attachment. She sees both individuals and couples, loves working with other therapists, and she has particular skill in helping someone feel settled after chronic unease.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
RYT200
Trauma Conscious Yoga
Session Rate: $200
Morenike Olorunnisomo, LPC, SEP, RYT
"Somatic work has completely transformed how I think about healing. Guiding people back to their bodies has helped me to see how softening to ourselves really is the answer to living a more authentic, congruent, and integrated life."
Traumatic experiences can get stored in the body, leading to a range of physical symptoms and emotional distress. Working with the body, as in approaches like Somatic Experiencing, can help folks process and release trauma that may be held in their bodies, leading to embodied healing and symptom relief. Additionally, learning to identify and regulate bodily sensations can improve emotion regulation. Folx can develop a greater awareness of how their bodies react to stressors and learn to manage their emotional responses effectively.
Expected benefits of Somatic Coaching: There are so many benefits to somatic work, but one that is especially important is building self-awareness and reconnecting with your body. It can feel scary at first, but tuning into bodily sensations can enhance your knowing of your self and it can help you come to a greater understanding and appreciation for your body. Through somatic work, you will gain a better understanding of your triggers, emotional responses, and patterns of behavior by paying attention to physical sensations and reactions.
Trauma is stored in the body, and even if our wise brain has done a ton of processing of our past, we often find that the body experiences lingering effects of held trauma responses. Somatic work allowed me to personally access a deeper level of healing and regulation in my own body, which has helped me to see how body-based interventions, outside of talk therapy, can advance someone’s healing and strengthen their connection with themselves.
Danica loves working with therapists, healers, entrepreneurs, academics, and creatives and she is especially skilled in addressing emotional neglect and attachment wounds, relational concerns, sexual trauma, and highly activated nervous systems.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Somatic Resilience & Regulation
Sound Immersion Practitioner
Reiki Master
Session Rate: $295
Dr. Danica Harris, SEP
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As a fellow therapist, one skill I learned in my courses with Danica and have taken with me throughout my own clinical work has been to value the importance of the therapeutic relationship when it comes to trauma healing.
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I have taken many courses with Danica on a variety of topics! That said, some things that remain consistent throughout all her courses would be her passionate and empathetic presence. Regardless of what the topic is, Danica’s zeal for mental well-being and trauma healing remain.
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I’ll never forget her words—as therapists, we are vigorously intervening on our client’s side, even when they aren’t on their own side. I also learned that the only way we can really do that is to make sure we have already laid the foundation of safety and containment within the therapeutic relationship. I have carried this skill with me for every single one of my clients, and I can’t imagine doing therapy any other way.
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I have loved and gained so much knowledge from all the courses I have taken with Danica, and eagerly await future ones!
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I've learned that my body makes sense, and I make sense.
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I am more aware of my body than I have ever been, and that's helped me heal in ways I didn't know were possible.
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Somatic work has helped me to meet myself with curiosity rather than judgment.
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Danica helped me understand the value of being gentle with myself, and that has changed my relationship with my body.
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