John Osborn

John Osborn is a qualified Somatic Experience Practitioner and specialises in the treatment of 
Complex PTSD and Emotional / Developmental Trauma.

Currently working in private practice in Dorset & Wiltshire he has over 16 years personal experience in recovery of, and working with, Complex-PTSD, Trauma, and Addiction.

He is the Co-Chair of the UK’s Somatic Experience Association (SEA-UK) and a member of the 
European Mentor & Coaching Council. 

He also assists on Peter Levine’s Somatic Experience Practitioner training with SOSi.
Somatic Experiencing focusses on releasing the trapped survival energy that the body holds on to 
after an event (or events) that have been either too much, too fast, or too soon. It works with the 
nervous system itself. A nervous system that may be stuck in Fight/Flight/Freeze. 

This survival system is based in the limbic and lower brain functions, areas that have no language 
skills at all. You simply can't talk to it. 

Somatic Experiencing involves tracking and working with these internal systems and sensations 
then releasing this stuck survival energy and allowing the ‘protective self’ to safely disengage. 

It means that the body can finally let go of experiences it may have been holding on to all its life.

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