Somatic Therapy in Minneapolis & Brooklyn Park
Authentic Roots Therapy is a collective of licensed, independent therapists in Brooklyn Park, serving Minneapolis and the northwest metro. Several of our clinicians hold specific training in Somatic Psychology, and work with what the body is holding alongside what the mind already understands.
Somatic Therapy at Authentic Roots Therapy
Somatic therapy is talk therapy that also pays attention to physical experience, what happens in your breathing, your muscles, your posture, your sense of where you are in a room rather than treating those things as background noise while you talk.
Stress and trauma responses are not only thoughts. They involve the nervous system; heart rate, breath, muscle tension, the automatic readiness to fight, flee or freeze. Those responses can stay switched on long after the situation that caused them has passed.
This is why people describe knowing they are safe and not feeling safe. The understanding is in one system. The alarm is in another.
Somatic approaches work with that second system directly, rather than trying to reason with it.
Schedule an Appointment with Authentic Roots Therapy Today
You do not need to know whether somatic therapy is right for you before you get in touch. That is a reasonable thing to work out in a first conversation. Tell us a little about what is going on and what you have already tried, and we will match you with the therapist whose training fits.
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