SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Somatic Psychotherapy is a body-centred approach to support your process of transformation by enhancing self-awareness and resilience.
Therapy is a container to explore the emotional and symbolic landscapes of your inner world and to connect with the impulses, sensations, and narratives experienced in your body. It is a space to examine the habitual behaviours and thinking that hold you back from living the life you want.
WHO I WORK WITH
I work with individuals who are navigating transitions, recovering from loss and trauma, exploring identity, and with those seeking the re-embodiment and alignment with psyche through dreams and creative processes.
Life transitions
Grief and loss
Identity
Sexuality
Relationship issues
Creative process
Self-image
Sexual and gendered violence
Chronic pain and disability
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
MY PRACTICE
I incorporate a feminist and anti-oppressive framework and draw on diverse interdisciplinary theories in my practice. This includes trauma therapy, dreamwork, Jungian psychology, somatic practice, polyvagal theory, mythology, sex therapy, response-based therapy, attachment theory, systems theory, and creative practices. The following are descriptions of a few of the core modalities I draw on:
Somatic Experiencing ®
A model which aims to facilitate resolution and resilience from trauma and adverse life experiences. Somatic Experiencing (SE) supports the development of somatic awareness of internal resources. It explores the body’s story and supports emotional, physical, and behavioural regulation. Types of trauma and adversity supported by this practice include; developmental trauma (e.g. childhood adversity, abuse, neglect); shock trauma (e.g. accidents, medical procedures, loss); relational trauma (e.g. sexual and gendered); and transgenerational trauma (inherited through generations).
Depth Psychology
Examines the unconscious patterns and complexes that can have profound effects on an individual's personality, relationships, and life. This process shines a light on the inner landscape of dreams and aspects of the soul that have been fractured through cultural and familial conditioning, trauma, and oppression. It supports the transformation from destructive coping strategies and behaviors to the realignment of meaning and connection to self. Aspects of this inquiry include dreamwork, archetypal psychology, mythology, creative expression, shadow work, and ritual.
Sex Therapy
I integrate aspects of sex therapy to support individuals exploring sexuality, gender, and relationship diversity. Areas of inquiry may include (but are not limited to): intimacy after trauma; erotic intelligence; sacred sexuality; sexual fluidity; unconventional relationship structures; fantasy and pleasure; illness and disability; gender expression; LGBTQ2+ identity.
About Amanda Lynn ↠
“Destiny is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke