Felicia Samata Mihich, S.E.P, C.M.T.
Felicia Samata Mihich, S.E.P, C.M.T. is a Los Angeles based Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specializing in S.E. Touch Therapy.
Somatic Experiencing is an alternative therapy used to help individuals overcome the effects of trauma. Within the trauma spectrum symptoms can include stress, fatigue, anxiety, depression, dissociation, loss of a sense of self and connection to one’s body. Somatic Experiencing is a mind/body approach that honors the dynamic interrelation between all the parts that make up a whole person.
S.E. sessions can help you restore a sense of presence, curiosity for life, ability for connection, emotional stability, relaxed alertness, and embodiment.
Overcoming the shame of our debilitating symptoms caused by trauma is a process. In the face of feeling immobilized, it’s a brave step to reach out for support and make a commitment to overcome your challenges.
Somatic Experiencing treatment can lead to a resolution of trauma-related symptoms by:
- Supporting the autonomic nervous system back to a regulated state.
- Developing somatic mindfulness and present moment awareness.
- Attuning an individual to their own organic intelligence and innate capacity to heal.
- Re-establishing a sense of safety by repairing breached boundaries.
Somatic Experiencing Touch therapy can also release and resolve physical trauma including:
- Injuries
- Falls
- Accidents
- Chronic, difficult to treat pain related symptoms,
- Pain management
My Practice
Somatic Experiencing is done both through talk (as in psychotherapy) with the client’s attention brought to tracking sensations within their body as they relate to present moment awareness. This process of sensing within and without can lead to a renegotiation of traumatic experiences that have been “stored in the body”.
My practice integrates the use of SE Touch Therapy, a gentle hands-on approach to releasing trauma which changes stress chemistry, promoting deep states of relaxation, well being and connection to self.
Contact me for more information or to set up an appointment at my West Los Angeles office.
Source
Somatic Experiencing was developed by Dr. Peter Levine. In his development of Somatic Experiencing he looked to the wisdom inherent in nature by observing the behaviors of animals in the wild. He wanted to understand why wild animals consistently were able to return to normal after traumatic experiences and rarely developed adverse side effects like humans.
With over 40 years of research and development, Somatic Experiencing is an effective alternative healthcare modality practiced throughout the world and has paved a way for those who suffer from trauma to find relief from their disruptive pattern.
Additional Conditions
This holistic modality is used to help individuals overcome conditions such as:
- Aanxiety
- Auto-immune disease
- Car accidents
- Depression
- Domestic abuse
- Endocrine system imbalances
- Paralysis
- Pre and post surgery
- PTSD
- Rape
- Relationship issues
- Reproductive issues
- Sexual abuse
- Shock trauma
- Stress
- whiplash