​Try this quick exercise: take your right hand and point to yourself.  What part of your body did you point to? Most likely you pointed to your chest, since when we identify ourselves, who we "think" we are, is not the complete picture of who we actually feel we are. 

Somatic psychotherapy is a holistic approach to healing. As far back as 1957, researchers had discovered that when clients brought attention to their body’s experience during the psychotherapy process, they tended to recover faster from their distress, take more responsibility for themselves, and reported a lasting experience of the changes that they felt during sessions that continued in their daily lives.  

By learning how to listen to your somatic experience, you become more aware of parts of yourself that are currently unconscious and might not have been addressed in psychotherapy before. In traditional therapies, “talking about” your life actually prohibits you from feeling the life that you are actually living in the moment. Integrating the present moment bodily experience with the narrative of your “story” are essential for psychotherapeutic change.  With somatic psychotherapy you will learn how to give compassion and non-judgment to yourself that results in self-efficacy, good boundaries, and an increased sense of aliveness in your life.

See: What Happens in a Typical Session? for more information.