Private Somatic
Movement Therapy
Somatic Movement Therapy involves body, movement, and touch to guide the process of personal life experience. Body is wise and resilient. Our bodies hold our stories, experiences, and the knowledge of what we need to complete and want to achieve. Accessing this information and learning to listen to it necessitates thorough and deep experiencing of your living body in its wholeness.
Somatic Movement Therapy can bring unpleasant aspects of your lived experience when unconscious or implicit memories surfaces into a conscious awareness. My professional perspective is that those memories have their own life to be lived and be acknowledged. I encourage you to engage with this process unless it is deeply triggering for you. By simply acknowledging the discomfort and difficulties, you can shed light on the abandoned experience. Then you open the possibility to live your life more fully.
It is a private setting for individuals and couples. It generally begins with verbal check-in. Therapist collects both verbal and non-verbal data to assess clients movement patterns that associate with their psychological needs and desire. Therapist suggests various ways to increase range of motion and expression to find clients’ best way to re-pattern their habitual movement. It is very simple approach. Yet, it has a profound impact on clients.
Therapist facilitates the session for individuals to rebuild self-esteem from interpersonal trauma and build satisfying boundaries by examining their own embodied responses regarding “yes, maybe, no”, for example. For couples, therapist focuses on identifying the similarities and dynamic between two individuals so that they can find ways to improve attunement and communication skills.
60 mins | $150
75 mins | $175
90 mins | $200
You can check the way I relate to another body in the context of Contact Improvisation.
“I underestimated how hard it would be adjusting to working from home, but with Dr. Schell’s help, I was able to regain focus.”
— OLIVIA R., CLOVE CLIENT
