SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® TRAUMA INSTITUTE
6685 Gunpark Drive Suite 210
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 303-652-4035
Fax: 303-652-4039
E-mail: info@traumahealing.org
Website: http://www.TraumaHealing.org
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® (SE™) is a potent psychobiological method for resolving trauma symptoms and relieving chronic stress. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.
SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, freeze, or collapse responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It provides effective skills appropriate to a variety of healing professions including, mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and others.
SE Professional Training: Excellence in Trauma Resolution
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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
by Peter A. Levine, PhD (275 pages)
Nature’s Lessons in Healing Trauma…
Dr. Levine’s approach stresses the importance of body awareness in the successful treatment of trauma.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma is one of the seminal books of the body psychotherapy movement. It has sold over 250,000 copies and has been translated into 24 languages. This book offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to overcome trauma. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.
Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.