Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) encourages a genuine connection between therapist and client.
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Understanding Piaget and Erikson's ages and stages of development provides a valuable framework for somatic therapists.
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Rushing Woman's Syndrome is a reality for many navigating the fast-paced rhythm of New York City. What’s behind the rushing?
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Rresearch about the nervous system that helps make sense of living experience within bodies, environment, and in relationships.
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The form medical trauma takes is as diverse as the experiences of the people who endure it.
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If both individuals in a couple lean toward an avoidant attachment style, a therapist can help draw out the feelings gently over time.
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Trauma-informed therapy aims to avoid re-traumatization over the course of treatment by emphasizing a person-specific approach.
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Identify what is getting in the way, move past blockages and help you access your true emotions, needs and desires.
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Therapy isn’t just about coping, but learning to thrive through positive emotions.
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Make space for ancestral grief, gifts and burdens, and honor the inherent worth they convey upon ourselves and lineages.
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Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing focuses on emotions connected to memory with bilateral stimulation, like tapping on the body.
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There are tons of deep breathing practices for relaxation, but did you know you can use it to heal and transform as well? Breathwork wonderfully complements the relational tools of psychotherapy.
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Somatic therapy works with your “felt experience” to help you uncover what your inner critic so you can cultivate true self-acceptance and tend to your most vulnerable needs and desires.
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Many New Yorkers experience anxiety on a daily basis but are uncertain how to decrease the negative effects that this stress has on their body - Somatic therapy can help.
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Our clinicians find meaning and purpose in incorporating the body into the therapeutic experience. This approach is healing and experiential — it distinguishes itself from other forms of therapy.
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Therapy is one outlet that can help ground you in a frenetic place like New York City. This article outlines 3 ways that therapy can help you cope with New York City’s high speed environment.
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At Downtown Somatic Therapy, we believe that somatic therapy is a powerful way to address attachment wounds and to experience deep healing and a renewed sense of joy in life.
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Many couples avoid talking about infidelity, or are only able to access anger, and as a result never get around to processing the grief, sadness and loss of trust that the infidelity caused.
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By acknowledging, and sitting with, how depression makes us feel in our bodies, we can begin to overcome the feelings of “overwhelm” that depression can engender.
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Do you struggle with anxiety and wonder how somatic therapy can help? Anxiety actually starts out as a physiological response to feelings you have learned are not ok to feel.
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