The
S.O.M.A Method
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy
Master Four Therapeutic Practices that cultivate embodied change
Join Our Training and Learn:
- A four part processing sequence to repattern the nervous system and its adaptive personality patterns
- A Daily Breathing and Movement Practice clients can use anytime
- A system of personality traits based on the nervous system
- Use the method in emdr, parts work, and breathwork
"Trauma is the imprint of survival patterns held within your nervous system. Experiential somatic processing rewires the imprint." Dr. Kutsko
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A 4-Week Training for therapists and trauma informed coaches.
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S.O.M.A
A Nervous System Intervention
Learn our 4-part Embodied Processing Method
If you are a therapist or coach seeking to integrate cutting edge nervous system theory into clinical practice, join us for an experiential workshop.
The S.O.M.A Method™ draws on sensory awareness, bilateral stimulation, inner chid work, breathwork, tapping, yoga therapy, and more to support neurosomatic processing and repatterning.
Using four core somatic interventions, this method helps clients process trauma exactly where it’s held—in the intricate pathways of the nervous system.
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
The S.O.M.A Intervention
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken
An embodied processing sequence to transform nervous system states.
Sense
Sense your nervous system state from within. Learn to listen to your felt- sense and discover parts, patterns, images, memories and emotions present in the roots of your psyche.
Somatically sense the emotions suppressed during trauma and the contractions in the body keeping them stuck and you activated.
Open
Begin to soften contractions through the social engagement system. Notice how you are controlling, tensing and defending against feelings.
Bring affectionate attention and resourcing to contracted patterns.
Opening is a practice of receiving and internalizing support so patterns of bracing can soften.
Soften the body's contractions with inner-child dialogue. Invite and increase permission to feel
Practice mindfulness based self-compassion and Non-Resistance.
Move
Mobilize suppressed survival responses & emotions with shaking, sighing, sounding, humming, and various forms of expression.
Engage in physicalizing practices to instinctively move and express what was at one time uninvited.
Mobilize the nervous system to re-access states of ease.
Awaken
Awaken and embody ventral vegal states of connection and flourishing. Remember your empowered self-- a body both at ease and energized.
Rooted in nurture, awaken nervous system patterns of creativity, low tension and balanced energy.
Teach clients compassionate stillness and inner listening
Nervous System Embodied Patterns
Click here to watch Dr. Kutsko Explain The S.O.M.A Tree
Life experiences and childhood dynamics leave survival imprints in ones nervous system - patterned biological pathways.
The S.O.M.A Method understands self as an adaptive system, responding to overwhelm, stress or ease through three nervous system pathways: collapse, control, and connect.
Some childhood imprints exist in sympathetic (these are fighting for control), some in collapse (these have given up) and some live in connection (these are present and relational).
Our understanding of clients patterns and day-to- day struggles honors the science of this regulatory system.
S.O.M.A Method™ Modalities
The following modalities are covered in our four week training.
Yoga Therapy
Visualize, embody and sense the postures and patterns of the adaptive self and the authentic self
Breathwork
Rhythmic breathing, slow breathing and breath-holds support expression and regulation
Parts Work
Learn to incorporate SOMA into Internal Family Systems. Process any manager, firefighter or exiled part using S.O.M.A.
Bi-Lateral Stimulation
Learn to integrate SOMA into the 6 phases of EMDR Move clients out of states of freeze into mobilization with SOMA Processing.
Felt-Sense Inquiry
Use Gendlin's Felt Sense inquiry protocal. Learn a system to awaken the body's voice
EFT - Tapping
Soften the body's contractions with tapping method clinically proven to rewire the nervous system using meridians and nerurolinguistic programming.
Join Our Training & Transfom Your Practice
The S.O.M.A Method™ draws on the wisdom found in psychoanalytic and depth psychologies, polyvagel theory, IFS, focusing, attachment theory, neuroscience studies, as well as contemplative traditions.
MEET
Carolyn Kutsko, PhD
Dr. Kutsko created the S.O.M.A Method from hundreds of her own client sessions. She is a licensed therapist and holds her PhD in Somatic and Clinical Psychology with certificates in EMDR, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, BodyWay Emotional Eating Recovery, The Daring Way, Thai Massage, and Somatic Breathwork.
She wrote her dissertation on “Full Emotional Expression,” an exploration in relational support within catharsis, where she challenges theories cautioning expressive emoting and demonstrates through a phenomenological study the efficacy of relationally supported catharsis and the often miss-used and miss-understood use of "window of tolerance". She describes The S.O.M.A Method as an experiential form of therapy, waking up the body's natural organismic healing capacity.
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