Bobbi Polkinghorn

As a Somatic Experiencing (SE) trauma therapist, I have found that using SE with my clients has brought them greater healing and resilience. Using an SE lens has not only eased my clients’ trauma symptoms, but more importantly, the SE way of being enhances their ability to enjoy the present and avoid feeling paralyzed by future upsets. I have extensive experience with trauma, both developmental and current and that trauma impacts current choices and relationships. I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and families who have experienced sexual, mental, and physical abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and religious and attachment trauma. Also, I see clients who are seeking help for relationship/family related issues: dating, couples, and parenting, family conflict, child and teen behaviors, custody challenges, and co-parenting and divorce issues. Of course, I regularly help clients address the anxiety, depression, and post trauma symptoms that accompany these and other struggles. I am now incorporating an Internal Family Systems lens to complement the SE work, where appropriate and desired. Working through trauma is HARD!!! And it takes a lot of courage – my clients are some of the most courageous people I know! I care about my clients. In our work together, I look for creative ways to help clients and try to inject humor whenever possible. In our sessions, you and I collaborate to help you get moving forward again, to step out of your comfort zone when you are ready, to get back to feeling playful and able to breath, and to challenge the limits that may have bound you for a time, even a very long time.