A Mind-Body Approach that Moves you into Action
The way I see it, Somatic Therapy is a way to rebuild the bridge between mind and body.
All our lives we got trained to be in our heads (working, studying, worrying about the future, etc) that the body became dissociated.
I mean, the body is there, still looking healthy, going to gym, pilates, yoga, but we are not getting the full life experience we are meant to have, one full of presence, peace and meaningful choices.
Somatic therapy is a healing modality that is growing worldwide since now we understand that developmental trauma and common forms of childhood emotional neglect can affect our ability to feel connected to ourselves and others in a healthy .
The same way our body tends to keep the score and hold old unprocessed emotions, relationship and financial stress, it also becomes the gateway to emotional, mental, and even spiritual transformation.
It acknowledges that trauma, stress, and life’s ruptures live not just in our minds but also in our muscles, fascia, breath, posture, and nervous system.
What can happen in talk therapy is that you may see yourself repeating the same old story, without real life change, because the old pattern remains in the Nervous System and subconscious mind
Affirmations alone don’t change your life, but a regulated Nervous system is more available for creativity, love, connection and positive emotions and expansive experiences.
What Can Somatic Therapy Help With?
Somatic therapy is especially powerful for those who:
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- Feel stuck in repeated emotional patterns
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- Struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or dissociation
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- Experience ADHD symptoms or have difficulty staying focused
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- Live with chronic tension, fatigue, or burnout
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- Find it hard to feel their emotions (whether they are positive like Joy or negative like sadness)
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- Feel disconnected from their body, intuition, or inner voice
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- Want to reclaim pleasure, vitality, and creative flow
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- Are going through menopause, body changes, or emotional transitions, including, loss, grief
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- Are healers, empaths, people-pleasers or givers who feel depleted
- Are healers, empaths, people-pleasers or givers who feel depleted
For many of us, survival meant disconnecting from the body. Somatic therapy offers a bridge back.
For many of us, surviving meant overriding the body’s signals—numbing, bracing, or disconnecting just to get through. Somatic therapy offers a gentle bridge back to the nervous system, where safety, presence, and self-trust can be rebuilt.
Is Somatic Therapy hands on like Massage Therapy?
Somatic Therapy can involve specific tools that works best to each individual.
Some people dislike touch, in that case we can work with movement.
Some people have been far too long in survival mode without even knowing (until the body crashes), is that case we may start with breathwork and increasing blood flow with massage, for example.
So in session, I get to develop a map to better work together, it can be hands on or not.
Many therapies aim to resolve emotional pain, but somatic therapy does it by working with how the Nervous System respond to emotions.
Here’s a quick comparison that can help you to understand:
| Approach | Focus | How it Works |
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| Talk Therapy | MIND – Thoughts, stories, beliefs | Conversation-based insight and reflection |
| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | MIND – Thoughts & behaviors | Reframes thought patterns and actions |
| Massage Therapy | BODY – Physical tension & relaxation | Manual manipulation of the body |
| Somatic Therapy | MIND + BODY – Nervous system regulation + addressing emotions stored in the body | Breathwork, mindfulness of body sensations movement, therapeutic touch |
Somatic therapy can look like stillness when your body is processing co-regulation, or it can look like movement (if your body is ready to release tension or stress).
It can also involve breathwork, nervous system tracking, therapeutic touch, visualisations, and guided interoception.
The work is trauma-informed, which means it’s gentle so the person’s Nervous System can learn to relax, trust and regulate in safety again.
I work with women who...
I work best with women who:
- are sensitive and want to stop leaking energy putting healthy boundaries in place
- are creative with so many ideas, but can’t put them into action, whether because they can’t focus or they feel frozen in imposter syndrome.
- are therapists and entrepreneurs themselves and need a regulated nervous system to be able to deal with the daily mental, physical and emotional demands or running a business.
My areas of interest include:
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- ADHD and the nervous system
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- Dissociation, numbness, and emotional shutdown
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- Menopause and the changing inner landscape
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- Inner critics, self-doubt, and blocked creative expression
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- Working with therapists, coaches, and healers who give a lot and want to return to themselves
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- Supporting therapists transition from 1:1 work to creating offers that feel alive, body-led, and sustainably making them feel alive.
How I Work:
Every session is co-created with the person in front of me.
So how does a session look like?
Some days we work with breath and body awareness, other days with therapeutic touch or acupressure, guided movement, or even visualising and dialoguing with inner parts (like in parts work/IFS).
Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry and sometimes we’re quiet together, just listening to what the body says.
What do we address in sessions?
When I see a body in front of me, I don’t only see muscles, I see their story, their lifestyle choices, where they are putting pressure on themselves so they get to see clearly what’s actually the core stressor, where we can begin to bring acceptance and compassion to.
So my sessions with clients I show them how to access their intuition and wisdom, so they can answer the questions that don’t let them sleep at night:
“I worry about not being the best mum to my kids, I hate when I snap at them”
can show up with the tension in the shoulders, neck and jaw, despite their regular massages, chiro and physio.
“I feel stuck and bored at work, but I don’t know what I would do otherwise”
can come with lower back issues and hips that are always tight, for example.
What expertise you use?
Having blended Massage Therapy, Kinesiology and Bioenergetics in my clinical work since 2008, I’ve always been interested and invested in not only releasing tension from muscles, but I’ve always inquired “What is causing that tension and imbalance?”
Here are a few examples of what this can look like:
Beth, a 43 years-old women diagnosed with ADHD in her 40’s was able to decrease anxiety symptoms by working slowly with sensation and breath.
Rachel, a therapist on the edge of burnout was able to create healthy boundaries, and find her mojo again through somatic parts work and found her next business offering that feels soul-aligned.
Roberta is navigating menopause and through our work together she learned to embrace her body’s changes instead of fighting/hating them, reclaiming her sense of radiance and confidence.
Somatic Therapy is not about “fixing” you.
It’s about learning to coming home when life gets you lost.
If you feel called to explore this work, or if your body is whispering that it’s time…
I’d love to meet you there.
