What Is Somatic Therapy?

A somatic approach honours your body’s innate wisdom as an essential part of healing—held within a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship. While talking and analysis offer insight, they can miss the deeper patterns stored in the body: the sensations, impulses, emotions, and beliefs shaped through past relationships and lived experience. Somatic psychotherapy helps us access these layers so healing can occur not just in the mind, but through the body’s intelligence and wisdom.
In our work together, I support you in inhabiting your body more fully and safely. Together, we meet your nervous system to recognize safety, possibility, and expanded choice.

How Somatic Therapy Differs from CBT and Other Talk Therapies

CBT and other talk-based therapies focus on identifying thoughts, reframing beliefs, mindset work, and understanding behaviour through conversation.

 Somatic psychotherapy works differently by centering the body—where emotions, habits, trauma and long held patterns live. We pay attention not only to what you think, but to how you brace, collapse, rush, or hold your breath, and how your body responds in moments of stress or relational connection.

By working directly with movement patterns, sensation, breath, posture, and impulse, we reach layers of experience and conditioning that talking alone cannot. Somatic awareness is the first step, allowing change to be not only understood but felt and practiced in the nervous system. It’s the difference between knowing “water is good for me” and sensing your thirst cues and naturally reaching for water—leading to shifts that are more integrated and aligned with your deeper needs and values.