Suzie Wolfer LCSW, SEP
Though I’m no longer taking new clients, here’s a little be about me.
Somatic Experiencing® found me in 2010 when I studied with Steve Hoskinson and completed the 3-year training, earning my SEP in June 2012. I started assisting at Somatic Experiencing® Therapy training on the West Coast and have enjoyed assisting since then.
I’ve been supporting clients for over 30 years now. And have found Somatic Experiencing® to be the most effective, gentle, and enjoyable way to help clients achieve lasting results: relief from anxiety, depression, stress, and PTSD.
Perhaps one of the unique aspects of Somatic Experiencing® therapy is what we call co-regulation. My accompanying you helps you experience Ease and Presence with challenges and successes. Instead of the work taking a toll on me, I feel well-being in supporting you, and we both end up enjoy our work together. Your progress, success, and well-being makes you feel better. And in the experience of working with you, I’m happily doing my life’s work. Most days, I’m more energized and inspired in my “job” at the end of the day than when I started.
After being a therapist for so many years, it seems like most people come in with a simple problem: their body and nervous system gets a little stuck in fight, flight, or freeze patterns, or a combination of those patterns.
I know just how to help. I know you have resources inside you that want to help you feel more at ease, more alive, and more peaceful. And I know how to help you use those resources at a pace that works for you.
Somatic Experiencing® therapy helps clients to recover from anxiety and depression, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), stress in their relationships, work, and emotional lives. It works with Veterans, people with addiction problems, DID, physical and sexual abuse . . . All in the services of resilience and wellness. As e. e. Cummings wrote, it’s possible to “grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
For Somatic Experiencing® students, I offer in-person sessions and case consults at the Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. I also offer small group case consults.
After doing Somatic Experiencing® for the last 10 years, it isn’t just a collection of tools; it’s an application of Stephen Porges’s “Poly Vagal Theory” . . . a way to live with rhythm, presence in Flow, and access Flight, Fight and Freeze when needed. . . And enjoy the journey.