Somatic Experiencing in Hong Kong

Inside the session · Somatic Experiencing®-informed work

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach to trauma and nervous system healing developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Based in Central, Hong Kong, Faith Lantz brings Somatic Experiencing®-informed work into her craniosacral therapy practice, helping clients complete what the body has been holding, sometimes for a very long time.

Certified in both Upledger and Biodynamic CST, completing SE training. Central, Hong Kong.

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What it is

What didn't finish then is still finishing.

Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to trauma and nervous system healing developed by Dr. Peter Levine. Its central insight: when a survival response activates but can't complete, the activation stays in the body as unresolved charge. The experience is over. The body doesn't know that yet.

SE doesn't ask you to revisit what happened, or to narrate it, or to process it in words. It works below the level of story, tracking sensation, noticing what the body is holding, and creating the conditions for the nervous system to complete what it started. Slowly, titrated, at the pace the body sets. The pacing is the treatment.

Faith is completing the three-year SE International professional training, spanning the Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. She brings Somatic Experiencing®-informed awareness into every session as a language for tracking what the nervous system is doing, woven into the bodywork rather than offered as a separate approach.

The nervous system isn't broken. It is doing exactly what it learned to do. SE creates conditions for it to learn something new.

Botanical illustration of a brain with vines, somatic experiencing, Hong Kong

What it can help with

SE is not limited to a single type of trauma. Anywhere the nervous system is carrying something it couldn't finish.

  • Developmental traumaPatterns formed before language. The nervous system shaped itself around what wasn't safe, and it's still shaped that way.
  • Acute traumaAccidents, medical procedures, sudden loss, assault. A specific event the system couldn't fully process at the time.
  • Chronic stress and burnoutWhen the nervous system has been running hot so long it no longer knows how to come down. Exhaustion that rest doesn't cure.
  • Freeze and collapseThe exhaustion sleep doesn't touch. Numbness. Disconnection. A shutdown that has become a resting state.
  • Anxiety and hypervigilanceChronic alertness with no clear cause. The threat signal is real; it simply belongs to something the body is still holding from before.
  • Physical symptoms with a nervous system componentChronic pain, tension, digestive disruption. The body carrying what the mind couldn't.
  • Relational patternsHow we move toward people, how we pull away, what feels safe, what doesn't. Often rooted in early experience.
  • Postpartum and infant careSupport for mothers postpartum, and for newborns with CST as the primary modality and Somatic Experiencing®-informed throughout.

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