Nervous system health

Somatic practice is the art and science of working directly with the body to influence emotional and nervous system health. It’s based on the understanding that the body isn’t separate from the mind — it continuously stores and responds to memory, emotion, stress, trauma, and signals of safety or threat.

Somatic work bridges that gap. It brings awareness to the body’s signals and helps regulate the nervous system, allowing the body to finally discharge the trapped energy, find safety, and restore balance.

When something overwhelming happens, your nervous system reacts first: muscles tense, breathing changes, your gut tightens, and your heart races. You shift into survival. If that activation doesn’t get completed or released, your body keeps the memory of the event, not necessarily as a story, but as a pattern of tension, disconnection, or numbness. This is why people can “understand” their trauma cognitively yet still feel anxious, frozen, or reactive.

My work weaves this somatic approach into sessions so clients can create change that actually sticks. By working with both the mind and the body, we interrupt old protective patterns at their roots, not just at the surface. This helps clients build a deeper sense of internal safety, soften long-held tension, and shift behaviours in a way that feels natural rather than forced.