{"id":7816,"date":"2026-04-28T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafhealth.co.uk\/?post_type=therapy&#038;p=7816"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:04:36","slug":"trauma-informed-somatic-therapy","status":"publish","type":"therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.leafhealth.co.uk\/cy\/therapy\/trauma-informed-somatic-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma-informed Somatic Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><section class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_0 et_pb_fullwidth_header et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_module et_flex_module\" id=\"textheader\"><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_container left\"><div class=\"header-content-container center\"><div class=\"header-content et_flex_module\"><h1 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Trauma-informed Somatic Therapy<\/h1><div class=\"et_pb_header_button_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_scroll\"><\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_3 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3><strong>Trauma-informed Somatic Therapy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Trauma-informed Somatic therapy is a nervous system and body-based approach to conventional talking therapy. Sessions are formatted to support you in building a greater awareness and relationship with your body and the messages that it is trying to tell you, whilst also engaging in talking therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Somatic therapy sessions include some psychoeducation to help you to better understand how to work with your body to relieve anxiety, work with depression and use a nervous system lens to empower you to manage your own mental and emotional well-being moving forwards.<\/p>\n<p>Being trauma-informed, it does this with compassion and understanding for the wider societal conditions within which you live.<\/p>\n<p>Somatic therapy works on the understanding that we cannot always put words to what we have experienced or that sometimes we cannot always remember fully what has happened to us.<\/p>\n<p>But our bodies remember and often, through our bodies, can we find the deepest relief to our challenges. It also works on the premise that sometimes talking about what we\u2019ve experienced can be re-traumatising and that focussing on gentle body-based movements and the co-regulation offered in therapy can be enough to move things.<\/p>\n<p>It offers a way to work through anything we may be carrying with more nuance, trusting in the messages and wisdom that come through our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>For some people, deeper processing may be needed, and so somatic therapy also includes bilateral processing and parts work amongst other processing modalities to help to work with the more deeply embedded challenges. 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