
Glenn H. FleischMarriage & Family Therapist, PhD, MFT
526 Tennessee Street
Vallejo, CA 94590
About
n trauma, the body often becomes rigid, silent, and disconnected from its expressive core. The spirit, the body’s animating force—its capacity to move, gesture, sound, and relate—withdraws. In Focusing-oriented Soma-Drama Therapy, play becomes the gateway to re-accessing this moving spirit. Through symbolic enactment, improvisational movement, and relational witnessing, the body begins to remember itself—not as an object, but as a living, expressive subject. Through relational animation and embodied playing out, what has been dormant, suppressed or lost comes alive, letting the spirit return to rewrite the trauma script. Since most traumas are relational, it requires a new relational experience to releasee what has been bound- and reclaim what has been lost or wounded. Soma-drama play enables us to engage and play out in ways that allow parts of ourselves to come forth and express themselves in a safe, supportive and connected space.