So many of us move through the world carrying tension, overwhelm, or a quiet sense that something inside just doesn’t feel settled. You might notice it as tightness in your chest, a heaviness in your belly, a racing mind, or a feeling of being “far away” from yourself.

These experiences are not personal failures. They’re your nervous system communicating with you—softly or loudly—asking for care and connection.

Somatic psychotherapy offers a warm, compassionate space to listen to those signals with kindness. It gently supports you to reconnect with your body, your emotions, and the parts of you that have been protecting you for so long.

What Is Somatic Psychotherapy?

Somatic psychotherapy is a mindful, body-oriented approach to healing. It recognises that your body carries wisdom, memories, and stories that words alone can’t always express.

In sessions, we weave together:

• gentle body awareness
• breathwork
• mindfulness
• grounding practices
• Hakomi-inspired exploration
• nervous system regulation tools

This creates a soft, spacious environment where deeper healing can naturally unfold.

Why Healing Through the Body Matters?

Our bodies remember what our minds sometimes forget.

Stress, trauma, and long-held patterns often live in:

• tight shoulders
• shallow breathing
• a collapsing posture
• chronic tension
• emotional numbness
• a quick fight, flight, or freeze response
• Chronic pain

Somatic therapy helps you meet these patterns with tenderness rather than force.
With support, your body learns that it is safe to release, soften, and settle again.

What a Somatic Therapy Session Feels Like?

Each session is grounded in presence, safety, and attunement. There is no pressure and no expectation—only gentle curiosity and compassion.

1. We Arrive Together

We start by slowing down, inviting your system to breathe, land, and feel held.

2. We Listen to the Body

You might notice warmth, tingling, pressure, or quiet stillness. These sensations guide us toward what your body is ready to explore.

3. We Use Mindfulness to Stay Grounded

Mindfulness helps you stay connected and supported while gently exploring deeper layers.

4. We Support Your Nervous System

Through grounding, breathwork, resourcing, somatic tracking, and Hakomi-based practices, we help your system shift from survival to safety.

5. We Integrate With Care

You leave with more clarity, more regulation, and a deeper sense of connection with yourself—not just mentally, but in your whole being.

What Somatic Psychotherapy Can Support

Somatic therapy can be especially helpful for:

• trauma & attachment wounds
• anxiety and overwhelm
• stress and burnout
• emotional disconnection
• persistent patterns that feel hard to shift
• difficulty feeling grounded
• chronic tension
• shutdown or dissociation
• addiction
• relational difficulties

It gently reconnects you with your body’s natural capacity for healing and resilience.

The Heart of Somatic Therapy

Perhaps the most beautiful part of somatic psychotherapy is that nothing inside you is “wrong.”
Every reaction, every tension, every pattern developed for a reason—to keep you safe during moments when you didn’t have support.

With warmth and presence, somatic therapy helps you bring compassion to these parts of yourself so they no longer have to work so hard.

You learn to inhabit your body with more ease, trust, and self-compassion.

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If You’re Feeling the Pull Toward Healing…

You don’t have to do this alone.
If something inside you is whispering that it’s time to reconnect with yourself, I’m here to walk beside you—gently, slowly, and with deep care.

Book a somatic therapy session

Let’s create a safe, nurturing space where your body can soften, your nervous system can settle, and you can come home to yourself again.

Book a discovery call with me so we can discuss if somatic therapy is for you. No pressure guaranteed.

Much care,

Estelle