Somatic Experiencing™

Somatic Experiencing releases traumatic shock and stuck patterns of fight, flight and freeze, reducing trauma symptoms and boosting resilience.

 

Somatic Attachment Therapy™

Somatic Attachment therapy seeks to understand and resolve difficulties in relationships arising from problems with early attachment to our main carers, and from adult relationships.

Neuroaffective Touch™

NeuroAffective Touch emphasises the body’s primary role in therapy. Through touch, self-contact and relational attunement, NAT helps with early traumas that cannot be reached by words alone.

Deep Brain Reorienting™

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is based firmly in neuroscience research and clinical experience. I am currently training in this approach which is relatively new in New Zealand.

Conscious Dance and Movement

After many years of conscious dance practice in the UK and Europe, I completed Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms™ dance teacher training in 2008, the year I emigrated to Aotearoa. Conscious movement is a wonderful route to embodiment – enjoyable, connected and deeply transformative. As a personal practice, for me it was a way to release the grief and stress of a difficult week working as a doctor, or to process events in my life without the need for words. I taught 5Rhythms for 3 years in Wellington, and led a number of weekend courses, as well as organising workshops for international teachers.

While I no longer teach dance classes, this background informs the way I invite movement in our sessions, as a valuable resource and a fast-track to embodiment.

The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body.
Gabrielle Roth

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Julie Forsey

Julie is a retired medical doctor now offering assistance for people with anxiety, low mood or past trauma. Informed by the latest thinking on resolving the effects of traumatic experience on mind, body and nervous system, Julie is available to work with individuals and groups, either in-person or online.

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What is Somatic Therapy?

What is Somatic Therapy?

The word ‘Somatic’ refers to the body, and comes from the Greek word soma. In contrast to psychological approaches which work with the mind and are said to be ‘top down’ methods, Somatic Therapies are ‘bottom up’ approaches that work with the body and the lower unconscious parts of the brain to influence the upper, conscious levels of the mind.

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The word ‘Somatic’ refers to the body, and we use ‘Experiencing‘ to mean that the resolution of trauma happens in the present time. Talking therapies such as counselling are a ‘top down’ approach, which uses the evolutionarily newest parts of the brain, while Somatic Experiencing is a ‘bottom up’ approach, with less talking and more attention to information stored in the lower sub-conscious parts of the brain where the emergency responses are based.