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About
Adria Zimmerman, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Adria works directly with clients nervous systems, using a naturalistic approach to balance and improve both the mental and physiological systems. Adria's training in Somatic Experiencing, attachment and Early developmental trauma offers her clients a cutting edge advantage to heal from the effects of an unregulated nervous system and devastating symptoms of trauma. Adria's safe and gentle approach has helped clients drastically reduce and most often resolve anxiety and panic attacks, PTSD, nightmares, phobias, mood swings and other symptoms related to trauma. The body has a blue print of health. Through this very body centered approach you can return to this blueprint and live a full and satisfying life.
Years In Practice
21
Primary Specialty
Stress Management Specialists
Gender
Female
Education
University of NC - Greensboro, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, Foundation for Human Enrichment
Training
3 years certification training in Trauma Resolution
4 years trauma resolution Touch Training through FHE.
Prenatal/ Birth Trauma Workshops, Ray Castllino
DARe
Trauma and Sensory Integration - Robert Scaer, MD and Ana do Valle OTR, SEP
Ortho-Bionomy
4 years trauma resolution Touch Training through FHE.
Prenatal/ Birth Trauma Workshops, Ray Castllino
DARe
Trauma and Sensory Integration - Robert Scaer, MD and Ana do Valle OTR, SEP
Ortho-Bionomy
Affiliations
United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
Certification
Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution
Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapist, TSTT
Bodywork and Somatic Education, BASE P
DARe - Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience, DARE
Somatic Regulation and Resilience in Early Trauma, SRR
Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution
Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapist, TSTT
Bodywork and Somatic Education, BASE P
DARe - Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience, DARE
Somatic Regulation and Resilience in Early Trauma, SRR
Payment Options
Cash, Check, Credit Card
Services
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® (SE) is a potent psychobiological method for resolving trauma symptoms and relieving chronic stress. It resets the nervous system, restores inner balance, enhances resilience to stress, and increases people’s vitality, equanimity, and capacity to actively engage in life.
“The very structure of trauma, including hyper arousal, dissociation, constriction and helplessness, is based on the evolution of predator/prey survival behaviors. The symptoms of trauma are the result of a highly activated incomplete biological response to threat, frozen in time. By enabling this frozen response to thaw, move ahead in time and then complete, trauma can be healed.”
Peter Levine
Who Can Benefit From SE?
Anybody who wishes to regain a sense of empowerment by learning about and experiencing their body’s natural ability to calm itself after strong feelings or activation caused by a situation they perceive as being stressful or threatening can benefit from SE.
SE can be helpful for many individuals, both adults and children, who have experienced either overwhelming traumatic life events or periods of continual stress. A traumatic event is an experience that causes physical, emotional or psychological distress, or harm. It is an event that is perceived and experienced as a threat to one’s safety or to the stability of one’s world.
Physical trauma as in car accidents, whiplash, sporting accidents, high impact falls
Surgeries, medical interventions, prolonged illnesses, high fever, poisoning
Inescapable attack, mugging, threat of violence, abuse of any kind, rape, incest
Drowning, suffocation or choking experiences
Unrelenting stress, work, bereavement, divorce, loss of a loved one or a pet
Emotional and domestic abuse, bullying
Development trauma such as childhood neglect, abandonment or betrayal
Birth trauma, pre and peri-natal experiences
War or conflict, torture, terrorism
Natural disasters, fires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis,
Horror, being a witness to any of the above
If the threat, traumatic experience, or the duration of the event or circumstances is too great, or we have little or no support, our nervous system becomes overwhelmed and cannot return to its healthy place of resilience and equilibrium. We may stay either in a state of high arousal, reacting adversely to the slightest sound or movement and being hyperactive, or we may move into a state of shutdown and depression.
The consequences of these experiences can have deep psychological and physical effects on the body causing a variety of symptoms.
Symptoms of Overwhelm or Traumatic Stress
Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the ”triggering” event itself. They stem from the leftover survival energy that has not been resolved and discharged due to a disturbance in the self-regulatory capacity of our autonomic nervous system and physiology.
Each time we are not able to return to a relaxed ‘normal’ state our nervous system becomes more hypersensitive or unresponsive and we are more likely to be affected by events, actions or experiences that previously may not have had an impact. Over time, after months or years, symptoms of the following types may arise:
Heart palpitations, breathing problems, dizziness
Hyper vigilance, being on guard or over alert
Hyperactivity
Extreme sensitivity to light, sound or touch
Involuntary behavior: tics, jerking limbs
Anxiety, including chronic low level anxiety
Panic attacks and phobias
Fears and terrors
Flash backs and intrusive memories or images
Overwhelming emotional responses such as shame, anger, depression
Insomnia, poor sleep, nightmares, night terrors
Psychosomatic illnesses, particularly some headaches, migraines, neck and back problems
Muscle weakness, muscle pain e.g. fibromyalgia, myofasical pain
Menstrual problems
Digestive problems, e.g. irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon
Immune system problems
Skin disorders
Environmental sensitivities
Physical, mental or emotional exhaustion
Mood swings, shame, depression, rage, aggression, lack of self worth, easily irritated
Feelings of helplessness and powerlessness
Mental ‘blankness’ or spaced-out feelings
Amnesia, forgetfulness
Indecisiveness and feelings of overwhelm
Attraction to dangerous situations or people
Addictive behavior: smoking, alcohol dependency, drug abuse
Avoidance behavior: avoiding places, activities, memories, situations or people
Attachment difficulties in nurturing, bonding or committing to others or receiving from others
As SE works directly with the neurophysiology of the body to help regulate the nervous system and its effects on the endocrine and immune systems, these symptoms can gradually be reduced. Additional Services Trauma Early Childhood trauma PTSD Anxiety
“The very structure of trauma, including hyper arousal, dissociation, constriction and helplessness, is based on the evolution of predator/prey survival behaviors. The symptoms of trauma are the result of a highly activated incomplete biological response to threat, frozen in time. By enabling this frozen response to thaw, move ahead in time and then complete, trauma can be healed.”
Peter Levine
Who Can Benefit From SE?
Anybody who wishes to regain a sense of empowerment by learning about and experiencing their body’s natural ability to calm itself after strong feelings or activation caused by a situation they perceive as being stressful or threatening can benefit from SE.
SE can be helpful for many individuals, both adults and children, who have experienced either overwhelming traumatic life events or periods of continual stress. A traumatic event is an experience that causes physical, emotional or psychological distress, or harm. It is an event that is perceived and experienced as a threat to one’s safety or to the stability of one’s world.
Physical trauma as in car accidents, whiplash, sporting accidents, high impact falls
Surgeries, medical interventions, prolonged illnesses, high fever, poisoning
Inescapable attack, mugging, threat of violence, abuse of any kind, rape, incest
Drowning, suffocation or choking experiences
Unrelenting stress, work, bereavement, divorce, loss of a loved one or a pet
Emotional and domestic abuse, bullying
Development trauma such as childhood neglect, abandonment or betrayal
Birth trauma, pre and peri-natal experiences
War or conflict, torture, terrorism
Natural disasters, fires, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis,
Horror, being a witness to any of the above
If the threat, traumatic experience, or the duration of the event or circumstances is too great, or we have little or no support, our nervous system becomes overwhelmed and cannot return to its healthy place of resilience and equilibrium. We may stay either in a state of high arousal, reacting adversely to the slightest sound or movement and being hyperactive, or we may move into a state of shutdown and depression.
The consequences of these experiences can have deep psychological and physical effects on the body causing a variety of symptoms.
Symptoms of Overwhelm or Traumatic Stress
Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the ”triggering” event itself. They stem from the leftover survival energy that has not been resolved and discharged due to a disturbance in the self-regulatory capacity of our autonomic nervous system and physiology.
Each time we are not able to return to a relaxed ‘normal’ state our nervous system becomes more hypersensitive or unresponsive and we are more likely to be affected by events, actions or experiences that previously may not have had an impact. Over time, after months or years, symptoms of the following types may arise:
Heart palpitations, breathing problems, dizziness
Hyper vigilance, being on guard or over alert
Hyperactivity
Extreme sensitivity to light, sound or touch
Involuntary behavior: tics, jerking limbs
Anxiety, including chronic low level anxiety
Panic attacks and phobias
Fears and terrors
Flash backs and intrusive memories or images
Overwhelming emotional responses such as shame, anger, depression
Insomnia, poor sleep, nightmares, night terrors
Psychosomatic illnesses, particularly some headaches, migraines, neck and back problems
Muscle weakness, muscle pain e.g. fibromyalgia, myofasical pain
Menstrual problems
Digestive problems, e.g. irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon
Immune system problems
Skin disorders
Environmental sensitivities
Physical, mental or emotional exhaustion
Mood swings, shame, depression, rage, aggression, lack of self worth, easily irritated
Feelings of helplessness and powerlessness
Mental ‘blankness’ or spaced-out feelings
Amnesia, forgetfulness
Indecisiveness and feelings of overwhelm
Attraction to dangerous situations or people
Addictive behavior: smoking, alcohol dependency, drug abuse
Avoidance behavior: avoiding places, activities, memories, situations or people
Attachment difficulties in nurturing, bonding or committing to others or receiving from others
As SE works directly with the neurophysiology of the body to help regulate the nervous system and its effects on the endocrine and immune systems, these symptoms can gradually be reduced. Additional Services Trauma Early Childhood trauma PTSD Anxiety
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