“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
Toni Morrison

Social Justice- and Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapy for Adults
Somatic Experiencing®
Polyvagal theory-informed nervous system support
Anxiety and depression tied to PTSD and CPTSD
Early/developmental trauma and attachment support
Adult children of addicted/alcoholic parents
Autoimmune and chronic illness support
Stress management
Sensory and pain management support
Grief & loss
Moral injury
Judicial & institutional betrayal trauma
Inter/trans-generational trauma
Socio-historical & collective trauma
Systemic bias (Race, Gender & Sex, Class, Age, Religion, Ability, Citizenship)
Shock trauma support for unexpected life events (accidents, near death experiences, medical procedures, detainment/imprisonment, emergency migrant/refugee status, discrimination, wars, and disasters)
BIPOC / QTBIPOC / LGBTQGNCI+ positive
PRO BONO WRONGFUL CONVICTION, EXONEREE & TORTURE WHILE DETAINED SUPPORT
Self-Inquiry Support through Touch & Movement
Processing systemic, normative bias
Existential support
Professional, life & identity transitions
Consulting for Somatic Therapists:
Within the dyadic somatic encounter, liberal manifestations of intimacy can recreate white/western universalisms that render the very work of somatic therapy complicit in the reproduction of social injustices, such as racial and intergenerational trauma. Consulting supports somatic awareness of the content and magnitude of the historic fields – and the fraught relationships between/among them – that relationally bind the client-practitioner/therapist encounter and thus impact what’s possible in therapy and in the world at large.
KESHA FIKES
SOMATIC THERAPIST
Anthropologist (Ph.D.)
SE™ Practitioner (SEP)
ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT)
Danis Bois Method Practitioner (Somatic/Perceptual Psychoeducation)
CMT #35274
(She/Her/Hers)
The Center for Sensorial Bodywork & Movement Therapy
Online sessions & courses offered globally
thecsbmt.com
info(at)thecsbmt.com
650-933-8227
*The CSBMT respectfully acknowledges its location within unceded Ohlone territory.
“Restoring unity between mind & body, between thinking and feeling, between action and attention.”
Danis Bois