I'm curious too. My appointment isn't until May 16th but I am so eager to process emotional stuff that I will supplement my regular therapy with at least one visit with the Somatic Therapist. After reading the book, "Molecules of Emotion", I am very intrigued by how the body holds so much of our personality. I have always lived in my head and have basically ignored the body so this is new new new to me.

Here's a quote from the website:
Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy uses the body to lead the way to self-understanding. When the so-called thinking mind is quieted, the body reveals a treasury of information, energy, and healing. When we pay attention to our present-time body—posture, expression, gesture; sensations such as tingling, vibrations, pulsations, and temperature shifts; emotions felt as sensations; spontaneous imagery and phrases; impulses to move—we come to greater clarity about emotions and difficult life issues. An added benefit can be freeing up physical tension patterns, chronic conditions, and even trauma.


A generic term that arose during the human potential movement of the 1960's and '70's, "somatic therapy" may refer to any bodywork that sees the bodymind as a whole system and attends to the subtleties of the body. Usually, however, "somatic therapy" means counseling based primarily on body cues rather than talking and personal history.