Somatic attachment therapy
in Denver
A holistic, body-centered way to heal from relational wounds and trauma.
What is Somatic Attachment Therapy?
As a specialized form of Somatic Therapy, Somatic Attachment Therapy explores how someone forms intimate bonds with themself (also known as embodiment), other people, and the environment around them. Through these bonds, a person creates a foundation that helps them not only adapt, learn and grow from experiences, but they also help someone achieve goals and positive relationships.
When someone has connections, safety, and consistency in their life, it creates something that’s known as a secure relational attachment. This creates feelings of safety and belonging, and it helps someone be able to grow and thrive. When those feelings and attachments are missing, it creates an insecure attachment that affects our nervous system and influences how we respond to our environment and relationships.
This absence of attachment can have pervasive effects throughout someone’s life, but people can use strategies to help regulate their nervous systems and emotional states. These strategies inform how people absorb information, understand and create their sense of self, and experience the world around them.
While relationships can be great sources of joy and connection, they can also lead to pain, insecurity, and feelings of disconnection. By bringing awareness to attachment trauma, people can transform their wounds to create relationships with themselves and those around them with empathy. This can help people live their lives in ways that aren’t defined by trauma.
With Somatic Attachment Therapy, our Denver somatic therapists do more than help you heal from what went wrong. It helps you develop the skills to dive deeper into what’s going right.
When you take a holistic approach to attachment trauma, it’s not just a singular event or relationship with challenges. Instead, it’s seen as something that can overwhelm our ability to feel safe, cared for, and connected.
However, attachment trauma is often not as visibly apparent as other traumatic experiences that can be tied to a singular life event. How people deal with trauma is something that develops throughout someone’s life and especially manifests when they’re an adult. People develop patterns of thought, behavior, and how they interact with other people and environments.
Attachment trauma can appear as early as childhood, during teenage years, or in someone’s adult life. It can manifest as anxiety, depression, defensiveness, or a feeling of disconnection with parts of yourself.
Effects of attachment trauma
Emotional: Fear, depression, anxiety, difficulty making choices, inability to feel comforted, shame, anger, and disconnection.
Physical: Muscle tension, trouble breathing, and other tightness or pain.
Psychological: Low self-esteem, boundary issues, negativity, blame, depression, and challenges following through with goals.
Social: Communication challenges, isolation, avoiding people or situation, a lack of fulfillment, issues with intimacy.
While these symptoms can be painful and challenging, they are the gateway to healing from attachment trauma. A trained therapist can listen to you and use their training to help your body and mind heal from attachment trauma.
Causes of attachment trauma
- An absence of being cared for and listened to during childhood.
- Losing a family member or loved one.
- Situations where primal instincts, beliefs, and reactions are prevented from happening.
- Broken relationships that don't have the time or capacity to be healed.
- Overwhelming or unexpected amounts of stimulation in different settings.
- Connections that have been severed by traumatic experiences.
How Somatic Attachment Therapy can help you
Make your body feel safe and available for love
Establish a sense of self again
Enhance how your experience joy and manage disappointments
Process emotions that haven't been heard or addressed
Improve your ability to process memories
Let go of stored tension that can make you feel defensive or fearful
Bring back a relationship with yourself and the people around you
Create stronger, deeper relationships
What does a Somatic approach mean in therapy?
Somatic therapy is an experiential way to integrate the mind and body. While it’s usually done in person, online somatic attachment therapy is also available. Attachment trauma can create pain and feelings are difficult to cope with, and it can even make people feel uncomfortable in their own body, at home, and with people they know. Using somatic therapy, you can return to a place of comfort and safety.
Because attachment trauma primarily shows up in subconscious manifestations, sometimes talking through what’s happening isn’t enough to help you truly transform and heal. By making changes at the body’s cellular level, healing can be more effective and transformative.
Somatic therapy acknowledges the story of your journey and helps guide you to understand your body so that you can reconnect to your ability to create relationships, set healthy boundaries, and grow your relationships.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Meet our therapists
As a therapist-owned practice, we care about helping you heal, grow, and thrive. All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
Availability
We’re always accepting new clients at our conveniently located offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, and Arvada, and all of our therapists can meet with clients online.
We have a therapist for you
Because we have a large team of therapists with a wide range of specialties, we work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and life experiences. You are welcome here. We can match you with a therapist who matches your goals, location, and schedule.
We can provide specific types of therapy
To support your mental health journey, our therapists are trained in some of the most effective forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, CBT, DBT, and IFS.
Insurance information
We’re out of network with insurance and Tricare and are unable to take Medicaid or Medicare. Unlike many therapy practices, we don’t charge separate intake or administration fees or charge more for specialized therapy methods like EMDR.
Get matched with a therapist
Contact us today, and one of our therapists will reach out to you directly.