SOMATIC SPIRITUAL COUNSELING™
Somatic Spiritual Counseling is a collective of body- and mindfulness-based on Spiritual Therapist Boulder and coaches who embrace holistic health.
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WHO WE ARE
We each have our own specialties (such as PTSD treatment, imaginal work, couples therapy, etc.), yet we share a passion for helping you explore your inner world; integrate difficult experiences; and feel more healthy, whole, and nourished.
Everyone needs support to deepen into our own experience, find regulation and groundedness, and open to showing up as more of ourselves in the world, with the strength and freedom to offer our gifts.
We would love to accompany you on your journey!
SOMATIC THERAPY + COACHING
body-based counseling for adults + teens
PRACTITIONERS
BODY-MIND-SPIRIT APPROACH TO COUNSELING
Have you been in talk therapy for years, and know that there is a deeper layer of healing you could be accessing?
You know your story; you know why your inner difficulties developed, and yet you realize that hasn’t been enough to shift out of them.
Emma Sartwell
Master of Divinity
Somatic Psychotherapist
By including mind, body, nervous system, and spirituality, we can reach the root causes of neurosis where they are stored, rather than just addressing them with the conceptual mind.
Chris Cannon
Master of Clinical Counseling
Somatic Psychotherapist
In a culture that encourages us to live from our brains, the wisdom and pace of our animal bodies can get lost.
PRACTITIONERS
Together, we will dive below the mental chatter and free the stored constriction and wisdom of your physical being —what does your body remember? What is it trying to tell you?
If we can slow down and open to inner awareness, the body can be our greatest resource, friend, and teacher.
Dara del Rio Somatic Practitioner Holistic Coach + Spiritual Guide
Cassie Belden
SEPc, CYT Somatic Coach
Somatic Coaching Boulder has proven effective for issues such as:
PRACTITIONERS
• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• anxiety
• depression
• addictions
• spiritual emergence/y
• chronic pain (fibromyalgia, migraines, etc.)
• digestive issues (IBS, SIBO)
• autoimmune disorders
Amanda Goodrich Somatic & Archetypal Healing Practitioner
Dan Halpern
MA LPCC Somatic Trauma Therapist + Spiritual Integration Specialist
HOW CAN SOMATIC THERAPY / COACHING HELP?
We are largely influenced by the work of Dr. Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing Tr auma Therapy Boulder). Levine noticed that wild animals don’t experience traumatic stress (only humans and domesticated animals do)! For example, if a rabbit is almost eaten in a field, it doesn’t begin to avoid fields, self-isolate, develop tics, or become depressed. So, what is it that rabbits do that we don’t do? Well, they know how to follow and complete their nervous system cycles, while we humans have trained ourselves out of many natural responses, like shaking, fighting back, or running away. Think about it: if your body wants to run away from your threatening boss, your brain is most likely going to stop you, because there would be unwanted consequences of that action. Wild animals don’t have to override their instincts. In one sense, this has lead to amazing developments in human culture; in another sense, it has left us with a slew of nervous system issues that somatic therapy works wonderfully to treat.
So what can we do? Do we have to go live in the woods? Fortunately, somatic psychotherapy offers ways we can work with our nervous systems that are safe, contained, and allowing. We can invite the body to tell us its needs, desires, and unfinished business, and then we can finish it!
CONTACT US
Website:
somaticspiritualcounseling.com
Phone Number:
720-608-0261
emma@somaticspiritualcounseling.com
Address:
2935 Baseline Rd Suite 302, Boulder, CO 80303, United States
