Practitioners, researchers and frameworks for body-based trauma healing and nervous system regulation.
The founder of Somatic Experiencing and author of Waking the Tiger. Levine's central insight: trauma lives in the body, not just the mind, and the body knows how to heal when given the right conditions. His work transformed how the world understands and treats trauma.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is one of the most widely practised body-based trauma therapies globally, central to trauma-informed somatic therapy in Australia and internationally.
Author of The Body Keeps the Score — the most widely read book on trauma of the last decade. Groundbreaking in its integration of neuroscience, body-based therapies and lived experience. If you read one book on trauma, read this one.
The Body Keeps the Score is the defining text for understanding how trauma affects the body, brain and nervous system — directly relevant to Waypoint Within's trauma-informed practice.
A pioneer in body-centred approaches to trauma therapy. Her work on how the body holds and releases traumatic memory underpins much of contemporary somatic practice.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is particularly effective for complex trauma, dissociation and the somatic impacts of long-term coercive control.
The neuroscientist whose Polyvagal Theory transformed our understanding of the autonomic nervous system — why we freeze, flee or connect, and how safety is the foundation of all healing.
Polyvagal Theory is foundational in trauma-informed therapy and nervous system regulation work — central to how Waypoint Within approaches both counselling and somatic coaching.
Stanford neuroscientist whose podcast translates cutting-edge research on the brain, nervous system, sleep and performance into practical protocols. The nervous system work connects directly to somatic healing — the science behind why the body responds as it does.
Huberman Lab's evidence-based protocols for nervous system regulation and stress response bridge biohacking, sports performance and trauma-informed wellness.