My approach

Like a tree, we grow in response to the ground we’re rooted in. The soil and conditions we were planted in (our early environment, experiences, and relationships) shapes how we hold ourselves, how we protect, and how we adapt.

Over time, that shaping can show up as tension, patterns, or symptoms in the body. In this work, we don’t just tend to the branches, leaves or the fruit - we gently trace things back to the roots - creating the right conditions for your system to feel safe, soften, and bloom in new ways.

What I’ve come to know is this:
imbalance shows up differently in each of us.
It shapes how we speak to ourselves,
how we relate to others,
how we move through the world,
so healing, too, must be personal.

My work is to meet you where you are,
to gently support your own remembering.
Because embodiment isn’t a fixed state.
It’s a practice of coming back, again and again,
to what’s already within.

Reconnecting the mind and body through
presence and integration

Regulation isn’t just about calming the body, or managing your thoughts. It’s about tending to both.

When you’re overwhelmed, the thinking brain (prefrontal cortex) often goes offline. That’s why deep reflection or mindset work doesn’t always land in the moment, because the system is in survival, not reasoning.

Somatic tools like breath, movement, bodywork and body tracking help restore a sense of safety from the bottom-up, bringing the body out of fight-or-flight and slowly re-engaging the parts of the brain needed for reflection and choice.

Trauma doesn't just live in the mind,
it lives in the body.

Chronic tension, fatigue, and even physical pain can often be rooted in a nervous system stuck in protective states. When the body doesn’t get the chance to fully process past stress, whether emotional overwhelm or physical trauma like accidents, injuries or the birthing process, those survival responses can get stored in the tissues.

You can have all the insight in the world about your patterns, your past, your triggers. However, if your body still feels unsafe, the nervous system will keep responding as if you’re under threat. That’s why people often say, “I know I should think/do/feel xyz, but I still feel stuck.” It is difficult to think your way into feeling better. As Bessel van der Kolk writes in “The Body Keeps the Score,” the body remembers [even when the mind tries to move on]. Sometimes long after we’ve forgotten. But it also holds the potential for release, repair, and re-patterning. That’s where somatic work comes in.

A hallmark of trauma is
"too much, too fast, too soon"

My work is about slowing things down enough for your system to catch its breath. From that pace, we can gently notice what’s there. Unravel, feel, and explore what’s been held, all within a space that feels safe, supported and deeply nourishing.

Somatic bodywork helps access the parts of us that talking alone can’t reach. It supports regulation and works directly with the nervous system, muscles, fascia, and the subtle cues of the body. It gives the body a chance to process what words could never fully explain.

Change begins at the edge of awareness. The body already knows the way.

A Persian poet called Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it, and embrace them.” Somatic practices works in the same way. We slow down and meet these barriers and we gently spend some time at their edges until they are clear.

Every thought has a feeling in the body, and every sensation is linked to an emotion or belief. We are not just thinking beings. We are thinking, feeling bodies in motion. When something long-held is acknowledged, it softens. And in that softening, there’s space to choose something new. This is how the body begins to rewire and creates new neural pathways; making space for new patterns to take root, and for what once felt unfamiliar to become a little more known.

Your thoughts matter

But here’s the important bridge: once that capacity returns, your thoughts matter. If you're not aware of the inner dialogue, old beliefs, or mental loops that follow, those patterns can re-trigger the stress response; even after the body has started to settle.

When paired with awareness of thought patterns and internal dialogue (top-down), somatic work creates the conditions for lasting change and real integration. Not just understanding our experiences, but actually releasing what’s been held.

Working together

If this resonates with you, if some part of you is ready to soften, to feel, to reconnect, I’d love to walk alongside you. Through somatic bodywork, somatic processing practices and nervous system-informed care, we’ll work together to support your body in remembering its own rhythm and resilience. Rather than pushing through or fixing what's wrong, it’s about creating space for what’s been held, listening to the wisdom beneath the symptoms, and gently coming home to yourself.

Wherever you are in your journey, you're welcome here - exactly as you are.

CONTACT US

If you are interested in exploring what working together looks likes for you, feel free to book a free discovery call with myself to discuss where might be a suitable place to start, or deepen your journey.