Embodied Counselling &
Somatic Bodywork Sessions
One-to-one therapeutic work for body, mind
and the experiences that connect them.
HOW I WORK
Experience AND understanding.
Understanding your story doesn't automatically change your reactions.
You can recognise a trigger... and still feel your heart race.
You can understand why you learned to people-please... and still find yourself saying "yes."
You can know that you're safe... and still struggle to feel safe.
That isn't a contradiction. It's how the nervous system works.
My therapeutic approach brings somatic exploration and verbal integration together. Talking allows us to reflect, understand, contextualise and make meaning. Somatic work gives us another way of paying attention, namely to what is happening before it has become a fully formed thought or story.
A change in breathing. A tightening in the chest. An impulse to move away. A sense of attraction. A moment of numbness. A quiet feeling that something is not quite right.
These are not necessarily answers. Nor do they need to be interpreted as symptoms.They are experiences.
We can become curious about them.
Sometimes what you feel becomes clearer when you give it your attention. Sometimes putting something into words changes how you experience it. Sometimes the opposite happens: understanding something intellectually isn't enough, and the body needs to be part of the conversation.
The work moves between the two.
My approach is informed by somatic practices, psychotherapy, movement practice, mindfulness and contemplative traditions, alongside a long-standing academic interest in language, communication, perception and subjective experience.
I'm here to help you understand your Self AND your body.
To understand what happens inside the brain and the nervous system as the brain remains capable of change throughout life when the nervous system gradually learns through repeated experiences.
Who ist this for?
Individuals ready to inhabit themselves
more fully
This pathway is for people who feel disconnected; from their bodies, their desire, their confidence, or their sense of self. It is also for those who feel the call to go deeper: into their sensuality, their self-expression, and their relationship with their own aliveness.
The work supports:
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Rebuilding trust and safety in the body after trauma, numbness, or disconnection
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Developing a more attuned relationship with sensation, desire, and emotional signal
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Increasing confidence, magnetism, and embodied self-trust
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Clarifying what you actually want in intimacy, creativity, and life
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For women especially: stepping out of over-adaptation and into embodied authority
Drawing on somatic psychology, Tantric practice, authentic movement, and shamanic approaches to identity and transform, this is slow, precise, compassionate work.
Those navigating disconnection, fragmentation, or the aftermath of addiction, trauma, separation
This pathway welcomes people carrying the weight of chronic stress, burnout, addiction recovery, grief, or more complex trauma. It is also for those who simply feel fragmented, not quite at home in themselves, not quite sure how they got here.
The work offers:
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Gentle, body-led regulation and nervous system support
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Somatic approaches to processing and integrating difficult experience
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Shamanic practices for working with transition, loss, and identity
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A gradual, compassionate rebuilding of the body as a place of safety
This is not crisis intervention. It is an intelligent companion for the longer journey of coming back to oneself.
Couples who want to feel
more alive together
Many couples arrive having already tried to talk about what isn’t working.
This work begins somewhere different: with the body.
Rather than trying to find the right words first, we explore what happens between two people through breath, movement, touch, attention, and presence.
Through guided somatic and relational practices, couples can explore:
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Deeper attunement and embodied listening: learning to notice subtle shifts in breath, posture, movement, energy, and emotional state, and responding with greater sensitivity.
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Communication beyond words: discovering how much can be expressed and understood through presence, touch, rhythm, movement, and the ability to slow down and listen.
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A richer, more responsive sensuality: moving beyond performance or expectation towards curiosity, pleasure, and a more nuanced awareness of what feels good, wanted, and alive for both partners.
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Renewed trust and emotional safety: practising how to approach vulnerability, boundaries, uncertainty, and repair without immediately falling back into familiar patterns.
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Playfulness and spontaneity: making room for exploration, surprise, humour, and the pleasure of discovering each other again.
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Intimacy that feels nourishing rather than effortful: cultivating connection that doesn't depend on getting it right, but grows from presence, responsiveness, and genuine contact.
Ultimately, this is about learning to feel each other again: to notice, respond, soften, play, and remain present.
Because intimacy is something you can feel.
Individuals and couples navigating one of life's most demanding passages - IVF and Fertility
VF and fertility treatment can be one of life’s most demanding passages. When the body becomes a site of procedures, monitoring, hormones, and waiting, it can be difficult to remain connected to yourself within a process that can feel increasingly clinical and out of your hands.
Our work offers a space to stay in relationship with your body . As a living, sensing part of you.
We support you in:
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Staying connected to your body when it has become the focus of procedures, injections, tests, and monitoring.
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Holding grief, hope, uncertainty, and repeated disappointment without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down.
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Staying connected to desire, pleasure, and intimacy when sex has become scheduled, clinical, or emotionally loaded.
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Meeting the feeling that your body has failed you, betrayed you, or let you down with compassion rather than shame.
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Reclaiming a sense of agency over your somatic self, particularly when it has been handed over to protocols and medical processes.
Drawing on somatic psychology, Tantric practice, and somatic bodywork, we create a space to slow down, reconnect, and listen to what is happening beneath the surface.
This is gentle, mindful, and compassionate work supporting you to remain present with yourself and centred in yourself through it.