Somatic Psychotherapy

Somatic psychotherapy is a body-centred approach to healing that goes beyond talking. It recognises that stress, trauma, and emotions are not only held in the mind but also in the body. Through gentle mind-body practices, movement, and awareness exercises, we create space for your system to release stored tension and survival stress, so you can feel lighter, calmer, and more connected to yourself. This work helps you move out of old patterns of stress and into a place where your body and mind feel safe, steady, and free.


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Who is this for?

Somatic psychotherapy can be really helpful if you’re wanting to understand yourself more deeply and create real change in your life. It’s for people who feel ready to move beyond old patterns, whether that’s habits, behaviours, or ways of relating that no longer serve them. It’s also supportive if you’re carrying the weight of past stress or painful experiences and want a safe way to release and heal. Many people come to this work to recover from burnout, ease anxiety, heal relational wounds, or simply feel more at home in their own body. If you’re looking for a gentle but powerful way to reconnect with yourself, build resilience, and create lasting change, this approach could be right for you.

Addresses the Conditions & Symptoms of:

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD/CPTSD)

  • Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)

  • Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

  • Depression

  • Anxiety & Panic Attacks

  • Stress-Related Disorders

  • Managing Emotions and Behaviours

  • Relationship Problems

  • Overwhelm & Reactivity

  • Burnout

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

  • Fibromyalgia

  • Chronic/Unexplained Pain

  • Body Tension

  • Other Neurological Diagnosed Conditions/Symptoms

Book Your Introductory Session

Finding a therapist to help you unpack and work through trauma and distress can be— overwhelming. In our first session, we will explore your symptoms, history and levels of dysregulation to create an integrative treatment plan specific to your story. We work together to create a safe and stable internal environment to process, regulate and bring you to a place where you can look forward to the future.

This 90-minute session can be online or in person in Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Somatic Psychotherapy fundamentally works to foster body-brain integration. By adding mindfulness and bodily sensations to emotions and insight, somatic work enables us to integrate the instinctive, unconscious, and right-brain aspects of our experiences with the analytic, linguistic, and left-brain aspects. This integration changes structures in our three brains (reptilian, limbic and neocortical) so we can regulate our emotions more easily and make changes and choices in our lives from a grounded, alive, and interpersonally connected place. Body sensations, gestures, eye contact, breathing patterns, movements, shifts in physical position, the pace of speech, speech quality and many other physiological processes are routes to the unconscious— those things we are not aware of and have not processed yet affect us in our daily lives.

    ​Like other somatic psychology approaches, Somatic Psychotherapy professes a body-first approach to working trauma and old survival patterns stuck in the system due to being stuck in a survival response. As such, the physiology has adapted to the survival of the past. By looking at the sensations underneath our feelings and uncovering our habitual behaviour patterns to these feelings, Somatic Psychotherapy employs the awareness of body sensation to help clients ''renegotiate'' and heal their traumas safely rather than relive them.

    Sessions involve working at the pace of the client’s nervous system (their window of tolerance) to gently activate and work the unresolved trauma and stress remnants through the body and nervous system. This happens in cycles, where clients sense their way through the normal oscillations of internal sensation, such as contraction and expansion. This is carried out gently and safely, working at the pace and speed of each client’s nervous system.

  • £150 for Introductory Assessment (90 minutes)

    £80 per Session (60 minutes)

    £120 per Extended Session (90 minutes)

    Sessions are available online with limited in-person availability

  • For the Introductory Assessment, payment is required to book.

    For treatment sessions, payment is required 48 hours prior to the scheduled date.

    There is a 24-hour cancellation policy for a full refund. If cancelled within 24 hours, payments are non-refundable.

  • For UK residents only. There is a variety of companies that I can work with; please contact me for more details.