Mainstream somatic approaches- such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), and Polyvagal Theory—have gained prominence in trauma therapy for their focus on nervous system regulation. However, these frameworks often medicalize distress, individualize suffering, and depoliticize trauma, reflecting assumptions that healing is achieved through self-regulation and the restoration of safety and stability via the body and nervous system. These assumptions may not align with the lived realities or cultural meaning systems of forcibly displaced people. For many refugee clients, trauma is not a past event but an ongoing condition shaped by war, colonial violence, border regimes, and post-migration marginalization. This presentation offers a critical examination of the limitations of dominant somatic paradigms when applied to refugee trauma, highlighting concerns around medicalization, cultural mismatch, and the depoliticization of suffering. Informed by liberation psychology and grounded in community-based, practice-derived insights, this paper proposes an integrated model that combines somatic therapy tools with justice-centered, culturally grounded practices. This model includes psycho-education that validates body-based survival strategies, co-regulation through relational engagement, and the incorporation of culturally grounded healing practices as forms of embodied resistance and restoration. By rooting somatic therapy in the sociopolitical realities of displacement, the model creates space for culturally meaningful, dignified healing that honors both the body and its history.