Embodied Processing (EP)

EP is built upon the scientific foundations of:

• Polyvagal Theory (Dr. Stephen Porges) — understanding how safety, threat, and shutdown states affect our physiology.
• Somatic Psychology and Interoception — focusing on awareness of inner sensations and their role in emotional regulation.
• Trauma Research (Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine) — confirming that trauma is stored not just as memory, but as physiological responses in the body.

Though EP is a relatively new integrative modality, its effectiveness is supported by the same body of research underlying somatic and trauma-informed therapies:

• Enhances autonomic regulation and vagal tone
• Reduces hyperarousal / hypoarousal symptoms
• Increases emotional resilience and capacity to stay present in the body

• Individuals with trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, or chronic stress
• Those who feel “stuck,” “numb,” or disconnected from their body
• Clients with burnout, emotional overwhelm, or freeze/dissociation patterns
• Anyone ready to move beyond intellectual understanding into embodied transformation

A session unfolds slowly and intuitively:

1. The practitioner helps you orient to safety through breath, grounding, and gentle presence.
2. Together, you notice sensations or emotions in the body, without analyzing or changing them.
3. As sensations are safely witnessed, the body naturally begins to discharge stored energy (through trembling, sighing, tears, warmth, etc.).
4. You move through the Cycle of Processing — from awareness → acceptance → integration — allowing the nervous system to complete unfinished stress responses.

EP practitioners often say: “We don’t chase the feeling — we follow the body.”