therapy

We believe we are designed to heal and that as humans we are constantly seeking that. It’s important people find the path that is most authentic to them and be supported in the journey. At Soma we offer support through a holistic and communal wellness approach, finding the right therapeutic approach, and in training the next generation of healers.

primary treatment modalities offered:

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  • This form of therapy cultivates an awareness of bodily sensations, and teaches people to feel safe in their bodies while exploring thoughts, emotions, and memories. It incorporates poly vagal theory to teach nervous system regulation. This body-centric approach works by helping to release stress, tension, and trauma from the body and build new neural pathways in the mind.

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  • Many times religion can serve as a source of strength. However, sometimes, religious beliefs can be used as weapons of power and control by harmful spiritual leaders. This results in significant trauma. Religious trauma therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps people overcome the negative impact of past experiences related to religion. It focuses on helping clients understand how their beliefs were formed, how these beliefs affect their current life, and re-establishing a sense of support and self.

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  • Inner child work is an approach to recognizing and healing childhood trauma. It recognizes that our behaviors as an adult stem from our childhood experiences. This form of therapy incorporates attachment work and inner resilience. Inner child work focuses on addressing our unmet needs through reparenting ourselves and repairative experiences with the therapist

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  • Mindfulness therapy incorporates awareness of thoughts, emotions, feelings, surroundings, and situations. It involves helping a client develop greater awareness of their thoughts and the world around them. This increased awareness, combined with grounding exercise to regulate the nervous system, helps clients avoid destructive or automatic responses or habits.

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  • Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based treatment approach shown to help children, adolescents, and their parents (or other caregivers) overcome trauma-related difficulties. The primary focus is safety and stabilization, formal gradual exposure, and consolidation/integration.

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  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages a client to briefly focus on a memory, while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.

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  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on a client’s internal “parts” and “Self.” Have you ever said “Part of me feels like… but then part of me….” The grounding assumption is that there are no bad parts, only parts forced into bad roles. When a client learns how to access Self, they can then heal their wounded parts. This brings the whole system into harmony and allows the person to become more Self-led. The natural side effect of this healing is a reduction in problematic or symptomatic behavior.

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  • Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) approaches healing from the belief that emotions are strongly linked to identity. This focus leads therapist and client toward strategies that promote awareness, acceptance, expression, utilization, regulation, and transformation of emotion as well as corrective emotional experience with the therapist. The goals of EFT are strengthening the self, regulating affect, and creating new meaning for change.

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  • Attachment therapy is a type of therapy that fosters healing by focusing on trust and the ability to create deep and meaningful connections. It’s rooted in the ideas based on attachment theory, which acknowledges how childhood experiences can significantly impact future relationships. Anyone who’s experienced trauma or attachment wounds and, as a result, struggles to form healthy relationships might benefit from this therapy style. When working with couples, Imago relationship therapy, is the primary modality used in this domain.

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  • Brainspotting locates points in the client’s visual field that help to access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. It is a powerful treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional and body trauma, stress, and pain. It is enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and emotionally containing. 

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Individual Therapy

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Shame

    • Codependency

    • Trauma

    • Relationship issues

    • Life Transitions

    • Spiritual crisis

    • Inner child work

    • Personality disorders

    • Self Esteem

    • Embodiment work

    • Gender dysphoria

    • Embodiment work

    • EMDR

    • Emotional Focus Therapy (EFT)

    • Internal Family System (IFS)

    • Somatic Experiencing/Body Oriented Therapy

    • Experiential Therapy

    • Coherence Model

    • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)

    • Schema-Focused & Gestalt Therapy

    • Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

    • Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

    • Walk’n’Talk Therapy

    • Brainspotting

    • Parts and Memory

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Couples Therapy

    • Partner Conflict

    • Betrayal Recovery

    • Intimacy and Sexual development/growth

    • Attachment Trauma

    • Divorce/Separation

    • Communication Issues

    • Purity Culture Recovery

    • IMAGO Therapy

    • Emotional Focus Therapy (EFT)

    • Attachment Focused Therapy

    • Internal Family System (IFS)

    • Gottman Therapy

    • Experiential Therapy

    • Body Oriented Therapy

    • Trauma informed Therapy

    • Couples EMDR

    • Sex-informed therapy

    • Parts and Memory

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Religious Trauma Therapy

    • Complex PTSD recovery

    • Deconstruction support and processing

    • Bodily reorientation and embodiment

    • Shame reduction/healing

    • Purity culture recovery

    • Sexual development/growth

    • Identity development

    • Shadow work

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

    • Somatic Experiencing

    • Sex-informed therapy

    • Gender affirming care

    • Inner child healing

    • Experiential Therapy

    • EMDR

    • Brainspotting

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