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THERAPEUTIC MODALITY

Polyvagal-Informed
Treatment.

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The Approach

Restoring the body's sense
of safety.

Polyvagal-Informed Treatment is rooted in the work of Dr. Stephen Porges, whose research maps how the autonomic nervous system governs our capacity for safety, connection, and resilience. When trauma disrupts this system, people can become stuck in states of fight, flight, or freeze — states that feel involuntary and persistent, regardless of circumstances.

At Holina, polyvagal principles are not a standalone technique — they are woven into every clinical interaction. Every therapy session, every group process, and every somatic practice is designed to work with the nervous system rather than against it.

Nervous system healing at Holina
The Practice

How polyvagal-informed work
is applied at Holina.

Mapping Your Nervous System

Your therapist helps you understand your own autonomic patterns — identifying the states that keep you stuck and the conditions that support regulation. Awareness is the first step toward change.

Co-Regulation & Safe Relationship

The therapeutic relationship itself is a healing tool. Through consistent, attuned interaction, practitioners help the nervous system learn — or relearn — that safety with another person is possible.

Vagal Tone Practices

Breath, voice, gentle movement, and sound are used to stimulate the vagus nerve and shift the body toward states of calm, connection, and openness. These practices are accessible, body-based, and tangible.

Integration Across Therapies

Polyvagal understanding informs how all other therapies are paced and sequenced — ensuring that deeper trauma work only happens when the nervous system is sufficiently resourced to hold it.

Who This Supports

Polyvagal work is particularly
supportive for:

  • Trauma and PTSD — including complex and childhood trauma
  • Persistent anxiety, hypervigilance, or a constant sense of threat
  • Shutdown, dissociation, or emotional numbness
  • Attachment wounds and relationship difficulties
  • Chronic fatigue and nervous system exhaustion
  • Burnout — especially when rest does not restore
  • Those who feel their body is working against them
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THE EVIDENCE

Backed by
peer-reviewed research.

Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety
Stephen W. Porges · Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2022

The foundational review establishing that a sense of physiological safety is a measurable autonomic nervous system state — the theory this therapy is built on.

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A Theoretical Exploration of Polyvagal Theory in Creative Arts and Psychomotor Therapies for Emotion Regulation in Stress and Trauma
Suzanne Haeyen · Frontiers in Psychology, 2024

Proposes polyvagal theory as the mechanism by which body-based and creative-arts therapies regulate the nervous system and support stress and trauma recovery.

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Integrated with: Somatic Therapy Sound Healing Individual Psychotherapy Group Therapy

The nervous system can learn safety again.
We can help with that.

All enquiries are confidential, with no obligation.

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