Somatic Therapy for Intergenerational Trauma
Online therapy in California and Colorado for healing intergenerational trauma and attachment wounds by creating safety in your body for healthier connections with yourself and others.
Do you find yourself repeating relationship patterns despite consciously wanting to change these?
When it comes to boundaries, do you frequently find yourself confused over what belongs to you and what is other people’s responsibility?
Are you the one who handles everything alone, or the one who finds yourself taking care of everyone else?
Do you find yourself overwhelmed, in burnout, or in a permanent state of fear and hypervigilance even when you know you are safe now?
Although you may thoroughly understand where your patterns come from, you still find yourself reacting in ways you cannot seem to control. Your body continues to respond with inherited patterns of trauma and attachment wounds you experienced directly, even when your mind understands that you are safe now.
You may have a deep understanding of what your parents and past generations went through: trauma, immigration experiences, cultural pressures, or the stress of merely surviving. You can hold compassion for what those who raised you experienced while also making space for what you did not receive as a child.
What happens when understanding your patterns and having compassion for others isn't enough to create meaningful change?
You understand your family history, you are able to explain your patterns, and while you know where some of your automatic reactions come from, you still find yourself reacting in ways you cannot seem to control. Understanding the past alone is not enough to change your felt sense of safety in the present or shift out of your automatic survival patterns. Your body can continue to respond to painful experiences, attachment wounds, and trauma even when your mind understands that you are safe now.
When you learned to stay attuned to the needs and emotions of others while figuring out how to minimize or meet your own needs, your body learned to stay vigilant, minimize your own needs, or become disconnected or dissociated. These responses may have helped you survive your childhood experiences, but now that you are an adult and life is safer, these same survival skills are be getting in the way of a thriving life and the healthy connections you want with yourself and others.
This is why I work from the bottom up. It is important to not only have understanding and compassion, but also to develop a sense of connection and safety within your body. Through somatic regulation and practices, along with approaches such as EMDR, Brainspotting, and internal parts work, we engage in healing focused on developing an internal sense of safety and regulation in your body.
There is a future where you are able to regulate intense emotions and effectively express yourself.
There is a future where you can communicate your needs, set boundaries, and meet your needs regardless of the comfort of others.
The impacts from emotional wounds show in your inner world, your relationships, even your workplace. You see how others can connect in respectful and healthy ways and are curious about life beyond codependency, enabling, or extreme independence. It is possible to address what stops you from being your full self at home, at work, and with friends. It is possible to heal, to experience life without the weight of shame and other patterns from generations past.
You deserve help that is customized for your specific wounds.
I use a personalized approach integrating my trainings in multiple trauma treatments. This means we will move beyond typical talk therapy, we will begin to feel deeply into the body with somatic awareness and experiencing, as I use my intuitive gifts and clinical experience to create personalized guided meditations for your specific emotional healing needs.
Using my trainings in somatic clinical approaches and integrating the parts of you most needing to be honored and healed with curiosity and compassion, you will experience therapeutic support beyond basic, typical talk-therapy. No matter where you are on your journey, you can be confident that I have the skills and experience you deserve to heal emotional wounds, feel safe in your own body, and let go of shame from intergenerational trauma.
Schedule your first therapy session today and discover the therapy approaches suited for your unique needs.
Kyrie Sedano, MS, LMFT
Intergenerational Trauma Therapy can help with:
Resolving limiting beliefs about what you are worth and ‘imposter syndrome’
Challenging ‘people pleasing’ tendencies and setting boundaries
Stopping codependency, learning authentic connection and secure attachment
Trusting yourself and learning how, and when it’s safe, to trust others
Listening to your truest self instead of fears from the past
Shifting to an abundant mindset from the scarcity mindset you inherited
It is time to break free from a legacy of trauma and shame.
FAQs: Intergenerational Trauma
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A: The legacy of trauma explains how intergenerational trauma shapes how ongoing generations see the world and themselves. In times of trauma, our ancestors did their best to survive and were successful; unfortunately, these tools for survival often hold us back from thriving, from accessing our fullest life and healthier connections to others. Breaking these cycles is considered impactful to seven generations back and seven generations forward.
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Research has found that traumatic stress can be associated with lasting changes in multiple areas of the brain, including the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex. If you are interested in healing trauma, it is important that you find a therapist knowledgeable about the relationship between the brain and trauma, inherited and directly experienced.
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According to research, trauma is indeed stored in the body. This is why it is crucial that your trauma therapy includes somatic awareness and experiencing integrated with talk therapy and possibly also including bilateral eye movement and addressing different parts inside you.