Initial Conditions (Digital)

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This is a booklet for practitioners to distribute to their clients prior to the first session.
It is designed to increase successful outcomes for clients, and diminish the amount of explaining (context-setting) about the modality that you will need to do in your initial sessions.

FROM THE COVER: This is a booklet with a simple, yet noble purpose. It has been created to help you get the most out of the somatic therapy you are preparing to undertake. Somatic, autonomic, and polyvagally-informed therapies are some of the most effective for addressing stress-related disorders, and the aftermath of trauma. Yet practitioners of these modalities will invite you to bring attention to aspects of your experience that most people are not accustomed to paying attention to. This primer has been designed to help you have the most successful sessions possible, and to help your providers help you most effectively, making best use of your money and their time.

It will help you understand how somatic therapies are different than traditional talk therapy, why your practitioner is asking you to bring attention to sensations in your body, and provide you general guidancce on what you can expect to get the most out of your sessions.