Stress, anxiety, anger, flashbacks, nightmares, depression, and more can all result from PTSD and can remain stored in our bodies.
This is where somatic (body) therapy comes in, which prioritizes the mind-body connection in treatment to help address both physical and psychological symptoms.

Somatic Experiencing (SE), a specific approach to somatic therapy developed by Dr. Peter Levine, is based on the idea that traumatic experiences can lead to dysfunction of the nervous system, which can prevent full processing of the experience.

Somatic experiencing physiologically reduces stress and anxiety, alters the autonomic nervous system, and releases trauma. Just as there are multiple modalities of cognitive therapy, there are also multiple approaches to somatic therapies. Somatic Experiencing is a bottom-up approach; its main goal is not to help explore memories or emotions associated with a traumatic event, but to uncover bodily feelings.