Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to healing ourselves mentally and emotionally – and often physically.

It is a “bottom-up” approach that releases stored stress and buried emotions that are held in the body’s tissues and neural networks. Specific body-centered techniques release engrained neural patterns, releasing trapped energy to change our neurophysiology, our brain chemistry, and how our neural pathways are structured.

Because the brain has the ability to reorganize and rewire itself by forming new neural connections – neuroplasticity -- the neural patterns established during distressing or traumatic events can be reversed. The neural patterns that underly our anxiety, depression, reactivity, and overwhelm can be accessed and then, through various somatic techniques, be re-wired and re-organized. When these new neural pathways are laid down, they immediately change how we feel, how we think, our perspectives, and our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.

The Highpoint Method of somatic therapy utilizes a variety of techniques including designed movements, touch points, and gentle manual manipulation to loosen and then re-align the neural networks that are the source of emotional distress and debilitating mental patterns. This experience is quite liberating and results in rapid change. It creates powerful shifts in energy that fundamentally changes a person, allowing them to experience wholeness.