PTSD

SOMATIC TOUCH THERAPY FOR ADULTS WITH UNRESOLVED PTSD FROM BIRTH TRAUMA

As a several decades long Practitioner of Somatic, Mind/Body Therapies, I have

long-held the belief that the body speaks and our job as practitioners is to

increasingly attune our listening skills. In my work, particularly with the heads,

necks, and shoulders of thousands of clients, I have held a strong, intuitive

sense that the conditions I’ve met in these bodies, such as tension, postural

patterns, and even pain that remains unresolved, could be the result of

unrecognized birth delivery trauma. This is particularly true when clients have no

known recall of another situation, injury, or event in their childhood or adulthood

that could be responsible.

Traumatic Sexual Abuse Survivor, Recovered Drug Addict, Long-term, Painful BZD Withdrawal Symptoms

The patient was a 49-year old woman suffering with long-term, constant burning skin and intermittent insomnia. In addition, she had accompanying anxiety and depression which was originally the result of long-term, traumatic childhood sexual abuse by multiple offenders, and subsequently complicated by withdrawal from benzodiazapene (anti-anxiety) medication. She was also in a committed psychotherapeutic relationship with a therapist that she was attached to and who cared for her.