Somatic Counselling - Ongoing

Service Description

Embark on a journey of emotional healing with somatic counselling sessions. This approach blends talk therapy with body awareness and integration techniques to help you process emotions and experiences stored within your body. Throughout this process we use somatic techniques to strengthen and increase the flexibility of the nervous system, which essential improves our capacity to cope with stressors, giving us the space to connect with self again. The tools and techniques we practice are designed to support sustained change, an impact which remains long after our time together ends. Often in today's world we use our brain and 'logic' to such an extent that we have forgotten the wisdom of the body, forgotten our intuition. As we explore strengthening this body-mind connection, not only do we work though past experienced which are now limiting, we work with the body to allow us to move again, to feel again. This modality is unique as we use the body to access the mind; but we also use the mind to access the body. As a Physiotherapist, I'm well versed in recognising how the body hold stresses and traumas, sometimes changing our posture, the way we walk, even altering the activities we can participate in. The emotional, psychological and relational toll can be huge, however, unfortunately this aspect can be overlooked by mainstream health professionals (this is why I now train health professionals too!). These slightly longer than usual therapeutic sessions gives us the time and space to learn the essential, supportive techniques as we journey together. I am best suited to work with people who are struggling a little at present, perhaps with mild depression or anxiety; struggling to cope with stress; overwhelmed at being a new parent; finding that chronic pain is limiting life; or just feeling a little but stuck or directionless. You may have already had therapy/counselling and found that sustainable change wasn't found and you are looking for something more integrative.