TRAUMA RESOLUTION MUST INCLUDE THE BODY AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE HEALING PROCESS
Somatic Psychotherapy is a form of Mind/Body Medicine that integrates the experiential levels of thoughts, emotions, and senses, and reduces the conditioned responses that persist as troubling symptoms. Somatic counseling psychology is the study of the human experience as fundamentally imbedded within the structur
es, processes, and capacities of the body. My role as a Somatic Therapist is to assist you in being present for recovery and guide you in resilience for the future. You will learn to:
- expand Mind-Body awareness
- ease Chronic Pain and chronic illness
- Reduce Stress and Anxiety
- Resolve and release symptoms of Trauma physical, emotional, and spiritual
“Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself. They arise when the activation, mobilized to meet an extreme or life threatening event, is not fully discharged and integrated. This energy remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and our minds.”
-Peter A. Levine
Jennifer Slater is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, certified to work with trauma, stress, and its debilitating symptoms. She has a Masters degree in Somatic Psychology and is currently working towards her Ph. Jennifer also has training in Hakomi, Body Mind Centering, Mindfulness, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Acupressure, and other body/mind disciplines. Her Somatic Experiencing® certification comes from years of training in Trauma Resolution with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, Ariel Giarretto, Robert Scaer, Bessel van der Kolk, and Somatic Experiencing Touch Training with Kathy Kain. Informing her work also comes from participation in years of inquiring how the body holds trauma. Jennifer has also been a yoga practitioner and registered teacher for over a decade believing that the anatomical pathways of the body and the postures within work to show hidden traumatic patterns. She specializes in yoga therapeutics believing that nervous system regulation is the key to unlocking held patterns in the body and mind. Jennifer is a registered holistic nutritionist (RHN), prajna yoga therapy teacher (CYT), cranial sacral practitioner, and professional counselor (MA). She is a registered member in the Yoga alliance with over 500 hours, International Association of Yoga Therapists, American Vini Yoga Institute Member, International Alliance of Health Care Educators, Upledger Institute Registered Therapist, Foundation For Human Enrichment Member, also a registered with the United States Association of Body psychotherapy.
