Somatic Experiencing & Body-Informed Therapy
Your body can react before your words catch up. Therapy can make room for both.
Understanding the approach
Tension, shutdown, restlessness, and breath can all be part of the conversation.
Stress and emotion are not only thoughts. They can show up as tight shoulders, a racing heart, numbness, shallow breathing, fidgeting, fatigue, or the urge to get away.
Avery may invite brief attention to those shifts so you can notice what activates you, what helps you settle, and what your body seems to be communicating in a given moment.
What the work may look like
Body awareness can be small and practical.
This might mean noticing your feet on the floor during a difficult story, tracking a change in your breathing, or pausing when your body seems to say “too much.”
You stay in charge of the pace. Body-focused work can be shortened, changed, or skipped when it does not feel useful.
Individual and collaborative
The body is part of the story, not the whole explanation.
A physical sensation is information, not proof that one interpretation is correct.
Body awareness can be mixed with conversation, reflection, and other therapy approaches.
You do not need to be comfortable with meditation or body-focused exercises to work with Avery.