SOMATIC THERAPY
THROUGH BODY, KNOW MIND
Matt is a certified Trauma Informed Therapist through Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training.
Our trauma and emotion is not stored solely in the mind, your body holds a vivid emotional memory connected to every story in your life.
This modern and deeply humanizing approach to counselling emphasizes a deep reconnection to the wisdom contained within our body, beyond the story of our lives. While we may be conscious of the challenging experiences in our lives, we often divorce from the emotional and embodied experience of those memories to survive. When we disconnect, the pain doesn't leave, it lives on, trapped in the body and burdening our unconscious mind. In Somatic Therapy we explore, reprocess and integrate your relationship to your lived experiences, traumatic events, family and culture.
Through reconnecting to the language of the body, we understand our emotions and behavior differently. Depression, anxiety, addiction, insomnia, chronic pain and burn out can all begin to heal by releasing them from the body. Breathwork, IFS informed Parts Work, sound healing, and bodywork tools may be used in support of our exploration.
When we become conscious of our pains influence on our mind, our body, our behavior, and our emotion we are empowered to live life fully in the present, and begin healing. Become conscious and empowered in your struggle, transcend victimhood and reclaim your highest expression of self.
Matt offers in person counselling sessions in studio , and nature in Squamish, BC, or virtually wherever you are .
