Somatic Therapy is a holistic, body-centered approach to psychotherapy that invites the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—into the healing process.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, this work is rooted in the wisdom of human physiology. It is informed by knowledge on the nervous system, the brain structure, emotions and subtle energies.
It’s an integrative path, one that gently supports the digestion of life experiences while tending to how your entire system can be stabilized and supported.
We work with the sensory-motor system to process lived experience, using sensation-based language and practices that build a bridge between mind and body.
Somatic therapy holds deep space for relational healing, creating a compassionately held, safe container to welcome all parts of the client.
Through the practice, you learn to track internal cues, tune into rhythm, and explore boundaries—engaging primal energy, your threat response system, and the natural presence of fight, flight, and freeze, in order to return to balance and find clarity.
Rather than confronting trauma directly, we create resources and build a strong steady container around you and within you to be able to hold and process traumatic activations as your system is able. This allows healing to emerge at its own pace.
Ultimately, somatic therapy supports you in cultivating a grounded and stable connection to self, other, and life— so that you can be in the fullness of your moment to moment experience with resilience, grace, and joy more and more often.
how I approach this work...
I approach Relational Somatic Counselling with sensitivity and a caring heart that is tuned into the subtleties and nuances of human experience.
I co-create a space where all parts of you are welcome, and where you can open up your most authentic, multi-layered self when ready.
My intention is to foster relational safety and support you in navigating, digesting and grieving life experiences, emotional and relational wounds, and trauma so that you can redeem and embody your inherent wholeness.
I listen intently and offer this space with reverence for you and all that you are, as well as for the human journey, and move from an awareness of the true honour that it is to hold space for another.
I also know that ultimately we are our own healers, and that the wholeness of your being holds all of the answers you're seeking. It's a delight to support you in bringing that through. The container simply helps to draw that knowing forward and clarify over time.
In relation to this, I also work with an acknowledgement of the inherent health that exists beneath all trauma, problems and imbalances.
Each session and each counsellor-client relationship is one of a kind and I shift subtle elements of how I work to best suit each unique client, while drawing upon tools from the Therapeutic Counselling and Relational Somatic Therapy fields.
more about somatic therapy...
Relational Somatic Therapy is a holistic and embodied approach to therapy and healing that invites you back into the rhythms of your body and the natural wisdom of your whole self.
Rooted in presence, this therapeutic approach welcomes every part of you—body, mind, spirit, heart, emotions, energy, history—with curiosity, care, and compassion.
Together, we slow things down. The body moves at a pace all its own—seven times slower than the mind—and in that spaciousness, we begin to notice what’s happening just beneath the surface.
Within the safety of a grounded therapeutic relationship, together we listen closely to the subtle signals rising from your system, helping you begin to digest old patterns and experiences that may have felt overwhelming or frozen in time.
Somatic work is also known as an assisted awareness practice—a co-creative process where you are supported in navigating what your body is expressing. As we listen and tend to those signals from the body, you'll learn to describes what’s felt, sensed, and moved through you—sometimes alongside emotional release or verbal reflection.
Over time, this deep attending weaves connection between body and mind, helping you integrate your life experiences, thoughts, emotions, instincts, and knowing. It brings spaciousness into places that once felt tight or tangled. As you meet yourself with kindness and receive support, relational healing unfolds, and you gain more resilience, flexibility, and rootedness in who you are.
In-person sessions can include optional hands-on support—gentle, therapeutic touch to help regulate the nervous system, or therapeutic exercises which help complete survival responses that didn’t have space to resolve before.
At its core, this work is an invitation to come home to your body, your breath, your being—to reclaim your connection with the wholeness that’s been there all along.
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