Social Embodied Practice
Online therapeutic accompaniment informed by somatic practices, bodywork, trauma-informed care and possiblity management.
FOR THE HIGH-FUNCTIONING SEEKER
This service provides committed weekly online sessions for individuals seeking structured, body-oriented therapeutic support. Sessions are conducted in English with Spanish, and Portuguese language options also available.
A first session is offered at no cost, after which participation continues at a sliding scale rate between $25 and $65 per session.
You Don’t Have to Hold It Alone.
Service Overview
About the Social Embodied Practice (SEP)
Social Embodied Practice (SEP) is a weekly therapeutic accompaniment for adults impacted by social and financial vulnerabilities. It integrates somatic practices, bodywork healing, trauma-informed methods, emotional processing and possibility management.
The service is designed for participants who require consistency over time rather than short-term intervention. Sessions are held online, 1 hour once per week, and are structured as an ongoing commitment. The format is individual.
The service operates on a reduced-rate model. Fees range from $25 to $65 per session, determined by the participant's stated financial circumstances. No documentation of income is requested. The first session is free of charge.
The service is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Philosophical and Theoretical Framework
The service is grounded in the position that individual psychological experience cannot be separated from its social and historical context. Sessions attend to the participant's socio-historical background, including the material conditions produced by patriarchal racial capitalism and the ways these conditions register in the body, in emotional life, and in the person's sense of self.
The somatic orientation rests on the principle of functional unity between psyche and soma with the position that psychological processes and bodily sensations are not separate domains but a single expressive continuum. Within this framework, emotional and psychological conflict is understood to have a register in the body through accumulation is expressed by symptoms and the release of that tension is treated as integral to emotional and physiological vitality. Interwoven into this continuum is our sensuality, the mode of our psyche-soma receptivity and its regulation or suppression is understood to have consequences for general well-being. The framework further holds that mental health and sensual experience are shaped by social and environmental conditions that the body's capacity to feel, desire and connect cannot be assessed in isolation from the material and relational context in which the person lives.
Sessions therefore combine dialogue with body-oriented attention. The objective is not symptom elimination as an endpoint but the restoration of the participant's capacity to feel, regulate, and act in accordance with their own experience.
This framework is applied within the scope of a therapeutic accompaniment. It is not offered as a substitute for psychiatric or psychological treatment, medical care, or crisis services.