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VIDEO: Peter Levine on Finding Inner Balance with Ourselves and Others
Staying Connected While Separate During Times of Uncertainty
The Body as Ally
Finding a Sense of Safety
VIDEO: Peter Levine Shares a Personal Story About Trauma
What Does It Take to Ward Off Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Among the first to fully realize that humans have an innate psychophysiological capacity for overcoming trauma, Peter Levine developed Somatic Experiencing, a simple yet profoundly effective mind-body healing technique. In this clip from his 2014 Symposium address, Levine shares a personal story about a traumatizing event in his own life, and explains the remedy that helped him ward off post-traumatic stress. Read More
VIDEO: Peter Levine on Trauma Treatment's "Greatest Tool"
Tapping into the Power of the Body
According to trauma specialist Peter Levine, the body is the therapist's greatest tool in helping clients understand and heal from a traumatic event. So rather than focus on the event itself, Levine asks clients to focus on how their body manifests the trauma. In this brief video clip, he shares his method. Read More
VIDEO: Peter Levine's Somatic Tools for Self-Soothing
Creating a Path to Client Independence
Often, traumatized clients find that they become dependent on their therapists to help them handle their extreme emotional states. But according to Peter Levine, originator of Somatic Experiencing Therapy, the key to helping clients achieve more autonomy is giving them tools that enable them to better regulate their own body states. Read More
VIDEO: Peter Levine's Secret to Releasing Trauma from the Body
Watch Healing in an Actual Session with a Combat Veteran Suffering from PTSD
Among the first to fully realize that humans have an innate psychophysiological capacity for overcoming trauma, Peter Levine developed Somatic Experiencing, a simple yet profoundly effective mind-body healing technique. Here, he explains how trauma gets stored in the body, and shares a video from an actual session where he helps a PTSD survivor erase trauma-induced tics. Read More
VIDEO: Somatic Tools for Self-Soothing
Peter Levine Describes How Somatic Experiencing Helps Clients Self-Regulate
Peter Levine
Dr. Peter Levine holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE), a naturalistic body-awareness approach to healing trauma, which he teaches all over the globe. Dr. Levine is also the founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment and was a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the space shuttle. An accomplished author, Dr. Levine penned Healing Trauma, Sexual Healing and the bestselling book, Waking the Tiger. He also co-authored with Maggie Kline Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His latest book, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, is a testament to his lifelong investigation into the connection between evolutionary biology, neuroscience, animal behavior, and more than 40 years of clinical experience in the healing of trauma.