Mary Curry is a Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in a private practice located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The primary focus of her work is the treatment of traumatised individuals. While pursuing a PhD at Smith College School for Clinical Social Work, it became evident that the PhD program, focused on psychoanalytic theories and practice, did not include historical or contemporary psychoanalytic consideration of somatic concepts or body-based sensations as a crucial part of theory and practice. Being a seasoned clinician, who has a thirty-year practice in Vipassana Meditation – a practice based in the observation of sensations--, training in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Mary had begun to utilize somatic concepts and interventions in her work with patients, and in community mental health settings. While advancing in her studies, she began to identify both an historical inclusion of the interpretation of “sensations” throughout the development of the four psychologies, and an emerging contemporary “holding environment” for somatic considerations within Relational psychoanalysis and Intersubjectivity. This became the topic of her dissertation and research, titled--Decision-making process: a mixed method study of somatic awareness use by psychodynamic clinicians in the treatment of trauma-related disorders. By combining the perspective of Practice Based Evidence, contemporary traumatology, research focused on the neurobiology of traumatic stress, and Relational Psychoanalysis, she proposes an imperative for the assimilative integration of somatic concepts and interventions as an integral part of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.