Somatic Experiencing & Body-Informed Therapy
An approach that includes physical sensations and nervous-system responses alongside thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
Understanding the approach
Emotional experiences can also have a physical dimension.
Stress, emotion, and difficult experiences can show up physically through tension, breathing changes, restlessness, numbness, tightness, changes in energy, or other body sensations.
Morgan may incorporate Somatic Experiencing and other body-informed practices to notice these responses, understand what seems to activate or settle them, and include the body as one source of information during counseling.
What the work may look like
Body awareness is introduced gently.
When it is useful, Morgan may invite attention to physical sensations, movement, breathing, posture, or changes in the body while discussing an experience.
Clients remain in control of the pace. Attention to body sensations can be brief, adjusted, or set aside when it does not feel useful.
Individual and collaborative
The body is one source of information.
- Body-informed therapy does not assume that every concern has a physical cause or that every client needs to focus on body sensations.
- Body awareness can be combined with conversation, reflection, IFS, mindfulness, or other counseling approaches.
- The focus remains on what is useful and appropriate for the individual client.