About Kawena
I'm So Glad You're Here
I'm Kawena, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in Tempe, Arizona. I want to help you find healing from your trauma and to help you feel more at home in your body.
"I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma."
- Peter Levine, PhD, creator of Somatic Experiencing
Therapeutic Modalities
What is Somatic Experiencing?
What is Somatic Resilience & Regulation?
What is Somatic Resilience & Regulation?
"The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, together with over 45 years of successful clinical application. The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is the key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of healing emotional and early developmental attachment trauma."
What is Somatic Resilience & Regulation?
What is Somatic Resilience & Regulation?
What is Somatic Resilience & Regulation?
"Somatic Resilience and Regulation focuses on understanding the effects of Developmental Trauma on the child, as well as the developing adult. This cutting edge program opens the door to working in the milieu of nonverbal trauma. By understanding the neurochemistry of early trauma, and rebuilding developmental platforms through regulation, clients begin to move from a high-cost-of-doing-business system to a smoother and less stress-oriented system."
What is SE Touch?
What is Somatic Resilience & Regulation?
What is SE Touch?
"Somatic Skills for Trauma Therapists provides methods for working somatically with clients to support their recovery from trauma, as well as supporting their somatic change process."
"The primary focus is on tactile skills, somatic awareness, and other touch-related skills in the context of working with the resolution of trauma."