Welcome!
​The Center for Somatic Psychotherapy Milwaukee is a regional hub for body-oriented psychotherapy and a training site for therapists to steep themselves in body oriented therapeutic modalities. We offer clients and students alike a range of the most effective somatic clinical approaches, from research-based neuroscience to cutting edge experiential tools for wellness and mental health services.

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Group Offerings

We specialize in helping people move and release their bodies and voices through life cycles events such as new parenthood, death of a loved one, changes in family structure as well as the challenges of modern life that cause anxiety & depression. Somatic approaches are trauma-informed, relational, body-centered and always experiential. We also use nutritional counseling, lifestyle guidance, movement, yoga, drama and voice to support and empower.

We offer individual sessions as well as small process groups. Groups accept new members regularly and there is a one-time individual intake session (at the regular session fee) required to join the group. As groups fill, new groups will form at different times of the week. 
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Group members will explore how their family histories contribute to emotional triggers, allowing for more intimacy, autonomy, and presence in relationships at home and at work.
– Learn body-focused approaches to track and settle the nervous system.
– Increase compassion, understanding, and kindness towards the self.
– Deepen understanding of basic trauma physiology.
– Increase capacity to embody the state of present moment awareness.
– Process old habit patterns and make space for authentic connection with others.
Our attachment insecurities begin with cultural norms and extend into our family structures. Group therapy is a place to practice tracking how our relational histories contribute to the challenges we face. Through mindfulness and somatic practice, tracking our nervous system, and slowing down we create a communal space to safely heal. As we process developmental and inter-generational trauma we greatly increase our capacity for secure relationships with ourselves and others.

In the group format, you are given ample resources to learn about Somatic Psychotherapy and can schedule individual consultation slots as desired.

Body Wisdom

Somatic symptoms you may experience due to emotional stress:

• ​Shortness of breath or can't take a deep breath
• Tightness or heaviness in your chest or increased heart rate
• Feel edgy and jittery, like running away, like punching something or somebody
• You've got unidentified digestive issues or nausea
• Back, shoulder or neck pain
• Dizziness, floating or numbness in your head
• Tight, blocked, hoarse, strain in your throat or voice​​

We will help you loosen and relieve these long held tension at your core so that you experience:

• Full breath, open heart, clear voice, ease in movement and digestion
• Improved emotion regulation, eliminate depression and anxiety
• Clear sense of self, purpose and meaning
• Better communication
• Improved relationships with appropriate boundaries
• Easier time bonding with baby and parenting your children

Our Specialties

High Performance
Impulsivity
Mindfulness
LGBTQQI
Major Life Changes
Obesity/Weight Loss
Depression
Transitions
Trauma
Specific Trauma Modalities: Somatic Therapy, Brainspotting, Focusing, Guided Imagery, DBT, Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Movement Therapy

Anger
Anxiety
Assertive Communication
Attachment
Divorce/Leaving Destructive Relationships
​Eating Disorders
Emotional Dysregulation
Women’s Issues, Postpartum and Sexuality
Grief/Loss

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Anti-Oppression Acknowledgment
We at The Center for Somatic Psychotherapy Milwaukee acknowledge the role of systemic oppression in the suffering of individuals.  We commit ourselves to taking responsibility for our role in white body supremacy and committing ourselves to the process of being allies in the recognition and undoing of oppression.  

Land Acknowledgement​
We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present. We further acknowledge the grave evil colonialism introduced to these lands ​through genocide as well as slavery, and also via racist and xenophobic ​beliefs, laws​, and practices that continue to inflict harm upon Black, brown, and Indigenous lives. We honor those who have lived—and do live, now—at these intersections of identity and experience, and are committed to the active dismantling of white supremacy.

We offer thanks for this land we live and work within and the people who have been stewards to this land for generations before. We hope to move forward in an effort of collaboration and recognition of the culture and history that has brought us to the time and place and opportunity to be here providing this healing work now.

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​Somatic Psychotherapy?