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Somatic Trauma Therapy
After having trained with Babette Rothschild I now practice somatic therapy with a bottom-up approach which allows a person to explore there dysregulated feelings, first safety and stabilisation are built and felt. Safety and stability allows a person to have one foot in feelings and one foot in the logic, the here and now, the present. Using both sensation and thinking to process trauma helps a person realise that the danger they are responding to is actually old. Clients can begin to develop awareness that puts the danger in the past.…They can experience feeling safe now. They can develop awareness that they are able to keep themselves safe in the current situation, and look back on what has happened in the past.
This healing process allows a sense of safety in the present day to nurture a sense of safety for the younger parts of the self that otherwise only know danger as ever-present. The frontal lobe needs to be on board — to integrate with the lower parts of the brain — to make sense of the feelings.