Somatic Counselling
You're always running, but the finish line never actually comes, always on to the next thing. Long days, a dozen projects, a full calendar, and when you finally collapse you numb out scrolling or in front of the TV because even rest doesn't feel like rest. It feels like it will never end.
And part of you just wants to stop. To let someone else hold it for a while. But you never learnt how to do that. And when you do slow down, you don’t really know what to do with the feelings that come, they can be overwhelming.
Many of us from a very young age learn how to be strong, get things done, keep on moving. It makes sense then, that as adults we can be hyper-independent, highly functional, and exhausted. Many of us are carrying a lifetimes worth of incomplete stress cycles in our bodies, and have the body pain and tension to show it.
Somatic counselling offers a way to start noticing how things are showing up in your body, tending to the stress and anxiety that feels like it never full lets up, and develop practices that help you finally find safety, pleasure and rest in your system.
If any of this resonates for you, have a read of how I work below, and reach out whenever you're ready.
How I Work
Somatic Counselling is a body-focused approach that helps you build a deeper relationship with yourself and any challenges you’re experiencing. Through dialogue, awareness and body-based tools, we work together to understand and support your nervous system, explore stories and patterns, get curious about whatever’s emerging in the present moment, and establish new tools and strategies to use beyond the clinic room.
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.
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.