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Martin’s most passionate cause is assisting people heal trauma in all its forms and aspects by reconnecting to their bodies and emotions and tuning into the healing voice of their nervous system. In addition to this Martin can help on any topic related to personal growth, spiritual development and consciousness raising, grief and loss and emotional regulation.

Martin is training in Somatic Experiencing SE and offers therapy under supervision on reduced rate. Martin offers an initial session free of charge where the essence of the work will be talked through.

Starting with an unconditional acceptance, Martin meets you as an equal human being, while combining evidence-based therapies with a heart-centered approach to actuate transformation and healing in your life.  The Inner Labyrinth meets you right where you are to help you return to your self.

The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE™ approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.

SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It provides effective skills appropriate to a variety of healing professions including mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and others.

Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.

The Somatic Experiencing® approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.

– source Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute