MY APPROACH
My take on well-being is all about being inclusive, holistic, and trauma-aware.
Nervous System Care focuses on regulation, restoration, and prevention. It's a practice that complements all the somatic methods I offer, like Sensorial Yoga.
This approach looks at how our bodies connect with the world around us, both human and non-human, recognizing that we’re all in this together. It tackles the basics of emotions, thoughts, and the body, blending different and experiences into our daily lives from a health-focused perspective.
We might have different parts to us, but we also have a core Self that remains untouched by life's ups and downs, filled with compassion and wisdom. I use a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model, structuring my work around human rights.
Caring for one another
is something we need to cultivate and shape.
It's both a value and a practice.
(Virginia Held)
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SOMATIC THERAPY
& SOMATIC COACHING
APPROACHES AND TOOL KIT
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​​From my professional background in occupational therapy, I have had the courage to integrate body-mind practices as adjunctive treatments in psychiatry and community mental health.
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I integrated a "trauma-informed care approach" to my teachings of yoga and meditations and into my somatic coaching practice from year 2018, deepening my therapeutic and personal work into the fields of somatics, interpersonal neurobiology, and accessibility.
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INTEGRATIVE RESOURCES
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Today, my therapeutic and coaching practice converges the following tool kit:
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- Somatic Parts Work
invites to explore ourselves from a place of curiosity with a structured and non-pathologizing methodology of the mind. A somatic-based application to Parts Work helps in the making of our inner cartography and in the resolution of issues that our parts might have developed due to trauma or attachment wounds.
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- Interpersonal Neurobiology and Neuroscience for Change
covering the several evidence-based models and theories that work at the levels of evolutionary development and functioning of the integrated nervous system: Sensory Integration Theory (sensory processing focused for neurodevelopmental conditions), Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, and Embodied Self-Awareness (ESA) States Model.
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- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Is a method from the 3th wave of behavioral therapies supported by a huge amount of evidence. It recognises the person contextually and uses embodied mindfulness and volition work to support developing and strengthening a person's psychological flexibility.
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- Occupational Therapy Models, other than the traditional CMOP-E and MOHO:
Neuro-occupation, Intention, Meaning and Perception and Occupational Wholeness
https://ottheory.com/index.php/therapy-model/model-neuro-occupation-intention-meaning-and-perception​
https://ottheory.com/therapy-model/model-occupational-wholeness
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Somatic Psychology is my actual field of study, and it provides great tools to expand emotional and affective tolerance. It works as a holistic path to self-knowledge and spiritual integration.
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​​​My vision is based on the acknowledgement of our interconnection and our capacities of regeneration.​ I work from the principles of witnessing, observation, and value of diversities from my own situated perspective.
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I am interested in supporting the access and integration of relational neurosciences with contemplative and somatic practices, and body-work.
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I am open to collaboration: hello@jennifergardenia.com
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