Connecting with the wisdom of your body
Somatic counselling is a body-focused approach that helps you build a deeper relationship with yourself and any challenges you’re experiencing. Through dialogue and awareness of breath, movement, and sensations, we work together to understand and regulate your nervous system, explore stories and patterns, and work with whatever’s emerging in the here-and-now. This is a trauma-informed space that moves at your pace and orients around curiosity, acceptance and somatic inquiry.
Approach and values
My approach is informed by mindfulness practice, mind-body coaching tools, the latest science on nervous system regulation, and other therapeutic and somatic frameworks. I also make use of more conventional talk-based and cognitive-narrative approaches as needed, and will always meet you where you’re at.
I am not here as the expert, instead my role is to collaborate with you to create a safe, compassionate container for your exploration, to act as a mirror to deepen your understanding of your self, and to offer invitations for things to try on or practice. We go at your pace, always in service to your intentions and values.
Somatic work is interested in the here-and-now, so I support you in practicing embodied presence and curiosity in order to gain new information and insights, find new ways of relating to old problems, and build more capacity to be with whatever challenges arise.
There is wisdom in the body, and in the unfolding process, so we don’t work to fix something that’s ‘broken’. Instead we listen for what your sensations, body symptoms, behaviours or patterns are trying to tell us - if we can follow them, they usually show us the path.
And finally, there is a big focus on practice in this work - creating any kind of change depends on it. This means that what you do between sessions is just as much (if not more) important than the time we have together in-session, and so we will usually co-create a home practice at the end of a session to support your process.
What to expect in a session
We may begin with a grounding exercise to support you to settle into the space and your body.
You can bring a specific intention or challenge, or we can follow what feels alive in the moment.
I will support you to be present, get curious, and explore whatever is arising, which might involve talking about it, bringing attention to the body, or getting up and moving around the space. We may use breath, movement, visualisation, sound and other somatic tools to support this process.
Nearing the end we will take some time to reflect, and discuss a possible practice you might do at home to support integration or further exploration.
Session Pricing:
60 min session: $165
Online and in-person sessions available.