Introduction If you have looked into somatic therapy and come away with a lot of language about the nervous system and almost no concrete examples of what actually happens in a session, you are not alone. I am Alex Papaconstantinou, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), Somatic Educator and Bodyworker and

Introduction If you have done years of therapy and still wake up in a body that has not caught up, this is the page you have been looking for. Somatic Experiencing is an approach to trauma that works with the physiology of your threat responses, the automatic states your body

Introduction Functional freeze is a low, conserving state your body drops into and cannot seem to climb out of, even while the rest of your life keeps running. You get to work. You answer some of the messages. You keep the basic machinery going. Underneath that, your physiology is braced

Introduction If you have heard the term “somatic touch work” and wondered what it means, you are not alone. It is one of those phrases that gets used in wellness spaces without much explanation, and the explanations that do exist tend to be either too clinical to make sense of