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Cowichan Women’s Health Collective
The Matraea Centre’s community of practitioners gratefully acknowledge their occupation of unceded Coast Salish Territory. We are openly committed to reconciliation and inclusivity, and are deeply thankful to work and play on the traditional land of the Hul’q’umi’num’ speaking peoples. Tsit’su’w’atul (Caring for one another)
To contact a practitioner or Matraea tenant, visit our website: www.matraea.com
Relational Somatic Psychotherapy is a science based, client-centred counselling therapy. The goal is to support the healing of your nervous system and brain after experiencing major life trauma or any stress event. When you engage in RSP, you work together with a counsellor to ensure the integration of the nervous system and brain is not disruptive to everyday life and that it matches your goals. The “goal” of somatic psychotherapy is often to decrease anxiety, or experience less pain and to feel more grounded, more regulated, have access to more choices and feel more like “yourself”, or the “you” you want to be. RSP uses body-based explorations and experiences to build or return resiliency to the nervous system. This happens as the body releases tension and the traumatic “charge”. For example, during a session you may feel hot, tingly, anxious, or experience a rush of emotions as your body realizes that the trauma event is now “over”. The defi nition of resilience in RSP means “the capacity to re-organize after stress, without losing what is essential”. Building and growing resiliency allows you to have more capacity for being present and having more choice in your life. It supports all aspects of one’s personal and professional relationships, parenting experiences and increases your sense of well-being and vitality in life overall. Somatic Psychotherapy is very effective for: • Attachment (family of origin) trauma • Event (medical, car accident or other shocks to the system) trauma • PTSD and C-PTSD • Childbirth trauma or loss • Healing from injury • Preparing for medical treatments like surgeries, cancer treatments etc. • Learning or deepening connection to the wisdom of the body • Increasing connection and a sense of belonging • Boundary and relational work To learn more, visit: www.resiliencesomatics.ca The Matraea Centre warmly welcomes Shannon Dikkema BSc, RTC. We are excited that Relational Somatic Psychotherapy is now available in the Cowichan Valley. With over 20 years of offering group therapeutic and educational sessions, and 5 years of offering individual counselling session Shannon is confi dent in her skill set and ability to provide excellent care and results. She is passionate about helping people to re-gain resiliency after stressors or trauma. She offers high-quality presence, care and expertise to clients who want to experience more ease, movement and joy, less pain, anxiety and symptoms of attachment or event trauma. To book an appointment, contact Shannon at: shannondikkema@gmail.com
Submitted by Kate Koyote
The Cowichan Women’s Health Collective acknowledges our settler relationship to the unceded territory of the Hul’q’umi’num’ speaking peoples upon which we live.
PRACTITIONER & SERVICES AT MATRAEA CENTRE: Dr. Rikst Attema, ND and Dr. Jenna Waddy, ND--Naturopathic Medicine; Sophie Barbant-Hayward, M.A., RPC--Substance Abuse Therapy; Sonia Furstenau, MLA—Cowichan Valley Constituency Offi ce; Kate Koyote, RM—Midwifery Services; Candice Wray, RN--Two Moons Lactation Consulting; Amanda Slydell--Tax Preparer Extraordinaire; Amber Burwash and Erin Sheen—The Place to Mortgage; Shannon Dikkema, BSc Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy; Pamela Boechler - Physiotherapist and Kendra Thomas, CVAP & Warmland Women’s Support Services Society--Sexual
