Somatic Experiencing & Holistic Medical Care with Becca Summers
Becca is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner as well as a board-certified medical doctor in both Internal Medicine & Infectious Disease. Becca combines her training in Somatic Experiencing with medical care to support the nervous system to come into more regulation and the body into a more coherent state. She supports you to reconnect to and to regain trust in your body while increasing capacity and resilience. Touch is incorporated into her sessions when welcomed.
Somatic Experiencing® is a naturalist, neuro-biological approach that aims to resolve the effects of shock, chronic stress, and traumatic experiences on the body. In one sense, trauma and stress ensue when the body has not fully oriented towards a sense of safety and clarity. These effects, when not addressed, accumulate over time and contribute to dysregulation and dysfunction in our bodies. This can lead to disease. SE works to slowly untether these experiences that continue to have grip and charge on how we function and experience the world.
SE supports an individual to gently track bodily sensations, reactions, emotions, movements while the practitioner is monitoring for shifts in the autonomic nervous system and bodily reactions. The idea to guide the body to complete what it did not have the opportunity to do in moments of overwhelm, to slowly bring in orientation towards feelings of safety, clarity and reconnection towards one’s own rhythm and sense of truth.
By doing so, the body can release chronic bracing patterns and the body’s physiology can function better. This builds more capacity and resilience towards life stressors, increasing a sense of space, openness, and awareness while reducing symptoms and reactivity. People start to feel more like themselves more of the time.
As a doctor, Becca finds enormous benefit using SE to help resolve the symptoms and disease states that are often difficult to treat by the traditional medical model. These include chronic pain, chronic medical conditions, headaches including migraine headache, Long Covid, autoimmune disorders, concussion either new or old, injury and accidents, or previous surgery.
SE is supportive to help navigate confusing medical decisions, in preparation for surgery, or initiating a new treatment plan. If you’ve experienced medical trauma or negative experiences with the medical system, Becca hopes that working with her may be reparative.
Becca also loves to use SE to support women and parents at any stage in parenthood from infertility through difficult birthing experiences and to improve regulation and attunement as parents.
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347-210-3784 (text or call)