Stephanie Post is a trauma-informed psychologist with advanced training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, as well as CBT & DBT. Because an essential impact of stress and trauma on the body is ‘disintegration’ (e.g., dissociation), Stephanie’s somatic approach presumes that healing comes from not just “talking about” problems but from re-experiencing ourselves as an embodied whole.
Within the safety of a warm and understanding therapeutic relationship, we will study — using present-moment mindfulness and other experiential exercises — how your nervous system adapts and organizes itself (e.g., through sensations, postural & tension patterns, thoughts, emotions, gestures) in response to current and past events. We may explore how early family experiences conditioned you to inhibit or accentuate your body’s natural instincts and emotions in order to secure the love and safety you needed. Together, we can use this information to help you experiment with new ways of showing up in the world, and develop practical resources to help strengthen your resilience.
