Higher Self Psychotherapy, Mill Valley CA

I was literally stuck in the stiffness of my body and experiencing a stuckness in my thought process following a hit and run car accident on the freeway this past summer, that totaled my car and luckily only temporarily damaged my bodily frame.

I wanted to take a moment to share for anyone going through the aftermath of trauma - physical or mental - in my case it was both that what most helped shift me was the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (somatic) and EMDR therapy session that my highly intuitive and knowledgeable practitioner Stephanie led me through which really helped discharge the remaining tension. I felt immediately that I was in good hands as she guided me to consciously move the pain and static energy through and out of my muscle and mental memory. In the past I did not have a perceptible difference from EMDR but she led me with her self-assured expertise through the somatic component which truly had a felt impact! I went from bracing myself from just retelling the flukey accident that vividly replayed in my mind to having little tension as the HD mental movie turned into neutral snapshots. After our session I was a lot more comfortable on the road, either as driver or passenger and I was also generally more at peace in my day-to-day life. The one thing that most attracts me to working with Stephanie in the future, besides how effective she was after one session (and I have had EMDR in the past with less of a felt impact) is that she is very well trained and offers different modalities that I am interested in applying to other aspects of myself I’d like to work on.