The Beyond Approach
Talk therapies often describe the issue without actually shifting it, which can feel like talking in circles as the years drift by. That’s because stress, anxiety and pain are rooted at the body level where unprocessed emotion, trauma, and energy are stuck.
At Beyond, we treat the core process of nervous system dysregulation using somatic modalities that are direct and evidence-based. Working in this way can produce powerful transformations over a short span of time.
Together, we will:
Build the relationship
We offer a corrective experience where you are deeply understood, accepted and supported. We work at your pace without rushing or pushing.
Map the pattern
We build a shared understanding of how your symptoms operate. We’ll map the parts of you that may be blocking your healing and figure out your personal roadmap to health.
Heal at the body level
Inside each session, we use somatic techniques to get to the root of symptoms. We’ll reprocess your trauma and strengthen your positive connection to the body.
Our somatic therapy approach blends Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and IFS. All of our therapists are trained in this core approach and each has their own additional trainings that they bring into the work.
We also offer bodywork, and breathwork classes to support nervous system regulation.
We developed this approach by training personally with:
Bessel Van Der Kolk,
Author of The Body Keeps the ScorePeter Levine,
Founder of Somatic ExperiencingDick Schwartz,
Founder of Internal Family SystemsLaurel Parnell,
Founder of Attachment-EMDR
Treatment approach
Our somatic practices teach you to be with challenging sensations and emotions to allow energy to shift and release, rather than accumulating in your body.
Over time, your window of tolerance expands so that you can better ride out difficult experiences and return to feeling yourself.
Best of all, your nervous system learns to do this by itself, achieving what is called regulation, or the natural ability to discharge activation energy.
In sessions, we help you to process and unburden the original traumas that live on in your body, such as hypersensitivity to threat and limiting belief structures. To do this, we need to meet and befriend the protective parts that over or under react to present situations. When we unburden the pain they protect, these parts can finally calm down and begin to work together as a team.
We help you build a personalized tool-kit of somatic practices to manage your symptoms going forward. When you stop fearing your symptoms they lose power over you and they begin to fade.
As the work progresses, clients often report forgetting about symptoms as their life comes back into the foreground.
We use two main approaches to heal the nervous system:
Interoceptive strengthening via relational mirroring and exercises such as somatic tracking, breathwork, toning, touchwork, and tapping that increase the signal from body to brain.
Reprocessing, via focused trauma work such as somatic therapy or EMDR that clear the emotional charge from active triggers and undigested experiences.
Both methods work to increase your window of tolerance and better support nervous system regulation. This reduces overwhelm and restores the full spectrum of experience—feelings like joy, love, awe and gratitude that may have been absent.
Embark on Your Healing Journey
Contact us today. We have a diverse group of therapists who can provide in-person therapy in California and online coaching around the world.
We would be happy to answer your questions and support you as you take your first steps toward a more vibrant life.