Somatic experiencing in Wokingham, Berkshire

What is somatic experiencing?

Somatic Experiencing (SE™) aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient. It is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders.

The Somatic Experiencing approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.

Why you need Somatic coaching

The premise for any SE® session is to create spaces of relative safety where the body can tell its story through a sequence of sensations. This space is often called dream-time, as it enables for a therapeutic session that operates outside of the usual constraints of time, whether revisiting past incidents in slow-motion or visualising new endings to traumatic stories that did not end well. In this way the body finds new opportunities to discharge that which may have been frozen.

Somatic Experiencing® has taught me that we are stronger than whatever trauma we have endured in our lives, for otherwise, we would not still be here. Our survival is in itself the ultimate proof. Once we allow that truth to sink profoundly into our conscious being, we can always come back to it as a resource, a reminder of our strength and all that we have had to overcome in order to be present and alive.

Amel Murphy

My sensibility merges traditional Somatic Experiencing® trauma-therapy tools and knowledge of the wider systemic field with a deep bodily wisdom of movement and performance of the self. I work extensively with dissociative states, relational and boundary ruptures and early developmental trauma. I also facilitate group-processing sessions for social change agents, Executives and business leaders seeking to develop their own leadership stance and enhance the wellbeing and team dynamics.

I am a qualified Family Systemic Constellator (FSC), trained with the Centre for Systemic Constellations UK, and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), trained and accredited by SOSInternationale. I currently assist with the Somatic Experiencing® training in Greece and Romania. I am also an ICF accredited Coach.

I often work with individuals who seek to re-establish contact with their bodies and felt sense, as well as those experiencing anxiety, stress, physical and chronic symptoms, birth trauma, ancestral trauma, conflicts and relationship issues.

If you have any questions about somatic experiencing or would like to arrange an appointment, please contact Amel on 07305 189694 or email amel.murphy@outlook.com.