Somatic Touch Therapy combined with Sound Healing creates a profound and transformative healing experience that honors the body's innate wisdom to restore balance and wholeness.
 
This integrated approach gently guides your nervous system back to a state of regulation through the power of conscious touch and therapeutic sound vibrations. As we work together, the resonant frequencies of sound help dissolve tension and trauma held within your tissues, while compassionate somatic touch supports your body's natural healing process.
 
This beautiful modality allows you to reconnect with your body's inherent capacity for self-healing, creating space for deep release, renewed vitality, and a sense of coming home to yourself. Whether you're seeking relief from chronic stress, processing difficult experiences, or simply longing to feel more embodied and present, this gentle yet powerful combination of touch and sound offers a pathway to profound healing and transformation.
 
The Benefits of Therapeutic Touch in Somatic Therapy
 
1. Facilitating Nervous System Regulation
One of the primary benefits of therapeutic touch is its ability to support nervous system regulation from the bottom up and inside out. Many individuals who have experienced trauma struggle with hypervigilance, dissociation, or chronic stress. Gentle, intentional touch, when used appropriately, can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation and an embodied sense of safety. Unlike practicing self-regulation skills, which requires the person to effort to get regulated, therapeutic touch helps the body come into greater balance and resilience without an effort on the part of the client.
 
2. Enhancing Mind-Body Awareness
For those who feel disconnected from their physical selves, therapeutic touch can serve as a bridge to greater embodiment. Many trauma survivors experience a numbing or detachment from their bodies as a protective mechanism. Through guided, ethical touch, clients can begin to reconnect with bodily sensations in a safe and controlled environment.  A client’s sovereignty over their body, coupled with increased somatic awareness, leads to a greater sense of empowerment and embodied safety.
 
3. Supporting Emotional Processing
Touch can help regulate emotions in ways that words alone may not; this is because therapeutic touch helps the body to remember its innate wisdom of being in balance. It provides non-verbal support, helping clients process difficult emotions with a greater sense of connectedness.  Most clients with early trauma did not have meaningful support and attunement while feeling big feelings as a young child.  Therapeutic touch also helps people feel connected while experiencing big emotions. When appropriately integrated, therapeutic touch can reinforce somatic experiences of support, validation, and comfort.
 
4. Building Secure Attachment and Trust
For clients with attachment wounds, therapeutic touch, within professional boundaries, can be a reparative experience. It can help rebuild trust in relationships by providing a safe, attuned, and nurturing interaction. This is especially important for individuals who may have experienced neglect or a lack of safe physical connection in their past. Addressing Somatic Trauma is often stored in the body, manifesting as tension, pain, or chronic physical symptoms. Somatic therapy, including the use of therapeutic touch, helps release these stored patterns, allowing for greater physical and emotional freedom.
 
How does Somatic Experiencing Touch Therapy work? 
Somatic Experiencing touch therapy incorporates the concept of the 8 diaphragms throughout the body that are made up of domes and bowls that provide containment for affect through their structures of muscle and fascia or bone and fascia:
Calvaria - The Domed Top of the Head Tentorium
Membrane Cerebelli (Membrane at the Floor of the Cranium, attaches to the interior of the back of the head/ base of the skull)
The Cranial Base of the Skull
The Thoracic Outlet/ Shoulder Girdle
The Respiratory Diaphragm
The Pelvic Floor/ Bowl
Soles of our Feet
The Body's Joints 
These diaphragms are interconnected regulatory structures that influence nervous system coherence and trauma resolution. This approach recognizes that these diaphragmatic layers act as both physical and energetic boundaries that can become constricted or dysregulated following traumatic experiences, creating patterns of held tension and disrupted flow.
 
Through gentle, mindful touch and awareness practices, Somatic Experiencing practitioners help clients tune into these diaphragmatic regions, facilitating the natural oscillation between expansion and contraction that supports healthy nervous system regulation. When these 8 diaphragms work in coherence, they create a unified field of communication throughout the body that allows for improved breath, circulation, and the organic discharge of trapped survival energy (stuck trama or chronic stress), ultimately supporting the body's innate capacity for healing and restoring a sense of safety and wholeness.