Stress & Trauma Healing
Unlocking Your Inner-Healer: Learn The Skills To Heal Your Mental Health With Somatic Experiencing
Get the support and tools to calm yourself no matter what’s happening in your life
Are you tired of keeping it together, while coping with difficult events in your own life and the world? Whether you are looking for coping skills that actually work, breaking generational trauma, or needing support while you go through a big life transition, somatic therapy can help you reach your goals for lasting results. I am Albania Alegria, LMFT, a holistic and trauma-trained therapist helping folks like you to tap into your empowerment.
What is Stress and Trauma?
Both stress and trauma begin in the body, and healing happens here too. Chronic stress happens when the body keeps thinking there’s a life and death threat, when most likely there isn’t. The body then becomes stuck in a state of fight, flight, or freeze.
Common experiences are: overthinking, worrying, chronic tension in the body, over-extertion, stressed and overwhelmed at work, constantly busy or working, conflict with others, reactivity, difficulty falling asleep, upset stomach, racing heart, frequent dizziness, shallow breathing, feeling on edge, irritable, fatigue, exhaustion, burnout.
Similarly, trauma is when something is too much, too soon, too fast, that the nervous system hasn’t gotten a chance to fully process it, and becomes thwarted in the experience. Any event that overwhelms the body that it reflexively can fawn, appease, shutdown, numb, feel helpless, or collapse.
Common experiences are: childhood abuse, car accidents, medical trauma, natural disasters, systemic oppression. Many experience fear, chronic tension, bracing, or pain, anger outbursts, flashbacks, rumination or overthinking, limiting beliefs (I am not enough or worthy, I am not safe, I am responsible, etc.), conflict with others, unmotivated, procrastination, dissociation, disconnection from self and others.
The Impact of Stress & Trauma
Modern research has clearly shown how unresolved stress and trauma affects your immunity and health, and can be a contributing factor to chronic diseases and terminal illness. Additionally, stress and trauma negatively impact your ability fully function at work, stifle your creative expression, and can create more conflict with yourself and others. Although you cannot change the past, you can absolutely have a different perspective and relationship with these events, and increase your resiliency and empowerment.
Using Somatic Experiencing Healing Modality
What Is Somatic Experiencing® (SE)?
With over 45 years of successful clinical application, Somatic Experiencing (SE) was created by Dr. Peter Levine to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma (e.g., developmental attachment trauma, PTSD, etc.) accumulated in our bodies and nervous systems—allowing for health, resilience, and wellness.
SE is a body-led therapeutic model—a holistic, multidisciplinary approach drawing from stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics.
It helps release patterns stuck in the self-protective states of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, SE gently guides clients to relate to their body in the present moment, develop tolerance for difficult sensations and emotions, and complete previously thwarted defensive responses.
This supports greater presence, access to life energy, empowerment, and resilience to relate to life in a new way.
What Are the Benefits of SE?
SE provides tools to increase awareness of patterns, emotional regulation, vitality, empowerment, resilience, and inner peace.
It supports those experiencing:
Anxiety
Chronic fatigue
PTSD
Chronic or recurring pain
Insomnia
Grief
Emotional and behavioral concerns
Things to Consider If SE Is for You
SE is a slow process of relating to your body and nervous system in the present moment.
It focuses less on talk, and more on imagery, emotions, sensations, and slow movements to release stuck energy.
It does not focus on past or future details, but rather how your body wants to express itself now.
We work with what your body is ready to slowly process while finding safety within.
SE is not for those seeking a quick fix or primarily talk-based therapy—it requires patience and self-practice.
You choose the number of sessions; some benefit from just a few, others over several months.
Changes are typically experienced within 4 to 6 months.
What’s Included In The Sessions?
Assessment and Treatment Planning: Clarity on where you are and where you want to be.
Personalized session: Learning about your unique nervous system patterns and how to support it long-term. We use Somatic Experiencing, a proven method to healing stress and trauma in the body.
Exclusive Resources: Actionable steps to use out of sessions that are unique for your healing
Accountability: Lovingly supporting your growth with direct feedback
Benefits of a Somatic Approach To Healing
Recover from stress, pain, and tension stored in the body
Create healthy boundaries
Have more capacity to be with life’s demands
Feel calm, grounded, and in control
Know what tools to apply with confidence to feel more regulated, no matter what’s happening in your life.
How It Works: The Journey
Sign Up: Book a free consultation and fill out the evaluation form.
Initial Consultation: We’ll discuss your goals, challenges, and customize a plan just for you, and see if we are a good fit for each other.
Sign Documents: Before beginning, you’ll read and sign consent forms through a secure platform for all documentation.
Intake: You’ll receive a thorough assessment, and begin formulating goals.
Moving Forward: You’ll receive ongoing support and accountability through regular weekly or bi-weekly virtual sessions.
Investment
All sessions are $250 each for all services offered at Holistika Embodiment.
Single Session - $250
60 minutes via Google Video
Intention: addressing one minor issue, assessing if coaching session is good fit for you, support for regulation
Common results: clarity, a quick pick-me-up, calmer, more regulated
Limited scheduling availability as priority is given to existing clients who’ve completed the packaged sessio
Rooted Embodiment Package with 12 sessions - Total $3,000
60 minutes via Google Video
Intention: assessment and goal setting, learning more somatic tools for nervous system regulation and healing, supporting the recovery and healing from chronic stress, burnout, trauma, loss and grief, consistent support for your nervous system healing and knowing your unique patterns to give feedback, knowing and healing your parts.
Email support outside of sessions, with somatic tools provided if desired
Common results: More relief, increased confidence in applying somatic tools, less stress and overwhelm, more peace, groundedness, and presence, healthier communication and deeper connections with others, increased empowerment and trust in one's intuition, better boundaries.
You can choose weekly or bi-weekly sessions, with a choice to pause sessions for more time to integrate if needed.
Cancellation/Rescheduling Policy: 48 hours prior to session, otherwise the session will be charged.
Exceptions include: Death of a loved one, emergency hospitalization, or a natural disaster.
No refunds given when services have been rendered due to nature of the offering.
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