Karenna Armington, LICSW

Human beings are tough. We’re resilient. As Brené Brown says, we’re made to struggle. And struggle we do. Most of the time, we move through difficult events and come out the other side wiser and stronger. Sometimes, though, we don’t move through at all. We get stuck. Our minds and bodies act as if it’s still happening. This is trauma.

No amount of skilled talk therapy alone will support the renegotiation of traumatic experiences held in the body’s memory. Not receiving what we needed to grow when we were children (called Developmental Trauma) can have systemic residual impact on the adult, contributing to depression and anxiety, perpetuate addictive behaviors, tax interpersonal relationships, compromise self-esteem, and/or manifest as anger or irritability. Somatic Experiencing offers a comfortable and powerful way to address the repetition of old patterns through incorporating the physical body experience dimension into the healing process. LICSW