Shalini Cameron
SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST | CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST | RYT YOGA TEACHER | SOMATIC EDUCATOR
I’m a somatic psychotherapist, a nervous system educator, and someone who’s walked the path of recovery through chronic illness, trauma, emotional collapse, and coming home to myself.
My mission is to guide you through the process of healing and recovery and empower you to become the architect of your own well-being. Healing is a deeply personal journey. True recovery begins with understanding the intricate connections between your mind, body, and emotions and how these connections shape your experiences.
From my open personal experience of somatic healing and recovery, I aim to guide and empower everyone seeking change and taking ownership of their health and well-being to teach them how to become their own regulators and care for their minds and bodies. To make therapy and healing as accessible and empowering as possible and to highlight a path of real and deep healing lost in the interface of symptom management, western culture and lack of awareness of the mind and body connection.
I aim to blend my passion for psychology and neuroscience with an equal passion for therapeutic healing and growth.
-
Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapeutic Counselling @ The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Certificate in Hypnosis @ The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Certificate in Psychotherapy @ The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Certificate in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) @ Rowena Beaumont EFT International, 2022
Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory @ University of Leeds, 2016
200-Hour Certified and Registered Ashtanga Yoga Teacher @ Jamie Blowers Yoga Trainings, 2019
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Level 1 @ Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, 2022
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma Level 2 (In Progress) @ Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, 2025
Foundational Training for Trauma-Informed Yoga @ Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga, 2021
The Neurobiology Of Trauma @ Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine, 2022
Rewind Technique for PTSD and Phobias @ Uncommon Knowledge, 2022
Grief Counselling @ Cruse Bereavement Services, 2015
PGCE in Education of Psychology @ University of Huddersfield, 2004
BSC (Hons) Psychology @ University of Huddersfield, 2001
The Safe & Sound Protocol @ Unyte Integrated Listening
Somatic Attachment Therapy @ The Embody Lab, 2021
Polyvagal Therapy in Yoga Level 1 & 2 @ The Embody Lab, 2021
My Offerings
My Inspiration
I'm a Mamma to two teenagers, learning daily about love's tender fierceness. I'm also a partner discovering how to stay soft when old patterns stir. I'm also the guardian of one impossibly fluffy companion who teaches me about simple joy.
I didn’t set out to become a nervous system therapist.
I set out to survive. To make sense of the symptoms no one else could explain. The anxiety that didn’t respond to mindset tools. The fatigue that didn’t go away with rest. The constant sense of needing to hold everything together, even when my body was quietly falling apart.
I spent years trying to manage my way through it—medically, mentally, emotionally. And I got good at it. High functioning. Capable. Smart. But behind all of that was a body that never got to feel safe.
What changed things wasn’t another tool. It was finally understanding what my nervous system had been doing all along and how to use these tools and do things differently.
And as I began to heal, I saw it more clearly in others: how many people live inside a body that’s been shaped by stress and survival.
I’ve got to say that care deeply about the people who I come across because first and foremost I truly understand.
So for me, the work is personal and clinical. It’s lived. It’s honest, yes, its shaped by years of training—but also by sitting with real people, every day, who’ve carried chronic pain, illness, emotional burnout, people-pleasing, overfunctioning, and trauma in their body… and never been met with compassion for it.
What Inspires Me:
Seeing someone who’s been in survival mode for years begin to soften.
Watching a client realise they’re not broken—they’re dysregulated.
Hearing someone say, “I didn’t know healing could feel like this.”
It probably means you’ve been trying for a while.
Trying to get better. To feel better. To make sense of what your body or mind has been doing.
You might be exhausted from it.
Maybe you’ve been dismissed, told you’re too sensitive, or that it’s all in your head.
Maybe you’ve tried things that helped for a bit—but didn’t shift what’s underneath.
I built this work because I’ve lived it.
Because I know what it’s like to hold it all together on the outside while everything on the inside feels like it’s barely coping.
And I want people to know there’s another way.
One that’s clear, grounded, and rooted in how the nervous system actually works.
You don’t need to be perfect to heal. You just need the right support, the right tools, and someone who sees what’s really going on.
If that’s what you’re looking for—you’re in the right place.
I’m really glad you’re here.
I'm honoured you’re here. x
Latest Blogs
