Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapy for Nervous System Healing
Supporting people whose nervous systems learned survival in emotionally neglectful, immature, or unpredictable relationships — helping you reconnect with your body and move through anxiety, shutdown, and survival patterns.
I am passionate about helping those with highly sensitive nervous systems, CPTSD and RSD.
Maybe your experiencing….
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You’ve learned to adapt in order to stay connected — people-pleasing, over-giving, or putting others’ needs before your own. Over time, this can leave you feeling disconnected from who you are, unsure of your needs, and constantly looking outward for direction or validation.
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Your body feels on edge, like it can’t fully relax. Even when things are “fine,” there’s a background sense of stress, anxiety, tension, or unease. It’s as if your nervous system is always scanning, bracing, or preparing for something.
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You notice how easily you take on other people’s emotions, you feel so much — and you are trying to manage, fix, or soften things so connection isn’t lost. Boundaries can feel confusing or unsafe, and saying no may bring guilt, fear, or discomfort.
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When things become too much, you might feel yourself shut down, freeze, or disconnect. At other times, emotions can feel intense and hard to manage. You’ve found ways to cope — overthinking, staying busy, or distracting yourself — but something still feels unresolved underneath.
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You may have felt unseen, unheard, or emotionally alone growing up. Now, you might notice patterns of anxious attachment, overthinking, or a lingering sense that something is missing — even if life looks “okay” on the outside.
You’ve tried different ways to feel better, (my go to was wine) yet something still feels stuck — like your body hasn’t caught up with what you know logically.
So much of what you’re struggling with today may not just be in your thoughts — it may be living in your body, in the patterns your nervous system learned to survive.
My work is centred around embodied processing, combining trauma-informed deep listening, body awareness, and gentle trauma informed nervous system support.
At the heart of this work is relationship.
Your relationship with yourself.
Your relationship with your body.
Your relationship with other people, safety, trust, boundaries, and connection.
This is especially true for those who grew up feeling unseen, emotionally alone, or shaped by emotionally immature or neglectful caregiving. When your body learned early that connection could feel unsafe, inconsistent, or conditional, those patterns can continue to shape how you respond to stress, closeness, conflict, and your own needs.
Together, we gently explore what your body is holding,, the states it has created, the protective patterns it developed, and the ways those patterns may still be showing up in your life now.
This can include patterns like:
overthinking or overexplaining
people-pleasing or losing yourself in others
shutting down, freezing, or becoming overwhelmed
feeling anxious in relationships
struggling to feel fully safe, steady, or connected in yourself
over reacting, defending and extreme self protection
addiction and subconscious self sabotage
I hold space for all of you. All parts are welcome here.
There is no pressure to perform, explain everything perfectly, or “get it right.” This is a space where you can simply be, begin to notice what is happening in your body, and slowly build the safety and capacity to process what has been held there.
Sometimes I may offer simple practices between sessions, but much of the work happens in the space we create together — and over time, your body begins to integrate, regulate, and shift in its own way.
The aim is not to fix you.
It is to help you come back into relationship with yourself — with more steadiness, more safety, more clarity, and more capacity to meet life as you, rather than from survival.
How I work
What I can help you with….
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You may have grown up feeling unseen, unheard, or emotionally alone — even if everything looked “fine” from the outside.
This can shape how safe it feels to have needs, express emotions, or rely on others.
Together, we gently explore how these early experiences live in your body, and begin building a deeper sense of safety, self-trust, and connection. -
You might notice patterns like people-pleasing, anxious attachment, over-giving, or difficulty with boundaries.
These are often nervous system responses shaped by early relationships.
This work supports you to recognise these patterns and begin responding from a place of safety, trust steadiness rather than survival.
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You may feel constantly on edge, easily overwhelmed, or like your system never fully settles.
Or you might swing the other way — feeling flat, shut down, or disconnected.
Together, we build your body’s capacity to feel safer, more grounded, and more able to stay present with life — without tipping into overwhelm or shutdown.
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Your experience might move between anxiety, emotional intensity, and moments of complete shutdown.
We work gently with these responses in the body, helping you stay present with what you feel — without needing to avoid, suppress, or push through it.
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You may spend a lot of time in your head — analysing, overthinking, or second-guessing yourself.
It can feel hard to know what you feel, what you need, or what’s right for you.
This work supports you to reconnect with your body, your inner signals, and your sense of self.
You’ve tried different ways to feel better, (my go to was wine) yet something still feels stuck — like your body hasn’t caught up with what you know logically.
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Overworking, overthinking, staying busy, or using coping behaviours to get through can all be ways your system has learned to manage stress or disconnection.
Rather than trying to “fix” these, we understand what they’ve been protecting — and support your system to find new ways of feeling safe and connected.
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