Somatic Trauma and Stress Release

For decades, trauma healing in mainstream medicine has centred primarily on conversation, cognition, and problem-solving. Meanwhile, the body—the place where threat responses are shaped, held, and repeated—has often been overlooked. The nervous system learns from experience, and much of that learning happens below conscious awareness. The limbic system, brainstem, and autonomic nervous system continuously shape our responses long before the thinking brain has time to organize a story. In other words, the body often “knows” before the mind makes meaning.

When trauma and chronic stress shape the nervous system, constriction can show up physically, emotionally, cognitively, and relationally. Somatic approaches—working with sensation, movement, imagery, attention, and affect—support the nervous system in completing interrupted responses, releasing defensive patterning, and integrating new experiences of safety. Rather than forcing change, somatic work gently helps the system recognize: It’s safe enough now to soften, breathe, and reconnect.

While advanced somatic healing doesn’t yet fit neatly into traditional medical frameworks, research is increasingly recognizing the ways trauma influences physiology, immune function, stress response, and even gene expression. Trauma impacts biology, neurology, and psychology simultaneously. Conditions such as chronic illness, fatigue syndromes, autoimmune expression, and nervous system dysregulation benefit from approaches that respect the complexity of the body–brain system. In this sense, the body does not “store” trauma as memory in the literal sense—but it remembers through patterning, protection, and deeply learned survival responses.

My work supports people navigating:

• Developmental and attachment trauma

• Pre- and perinatal trauma

• Generational and transgenerational trauma

• Ancestral and lineage-informed trauma responses

Including challenges related to:

• Clinical anxiety and depression

• Chronic illness and pain

• Chronic fatigue and autoimmune expression

• Dissociation and fragmentation

• Addictions

• Grief and loss

Somatic work is supportive and integrative, and can be engaged alongside medical or psychological care.

What to Expect

Sessions are experiential, relational, and carefully paced. We work with sensation, movement, imagery, breath, and subtle shifts in attention—following your nervous system rather than forcing it. You do not need to retell traumatic stories or relive overwhelming moments. Much of this work happens at the level of implicit experience, where the nervous system organizes safety, connection, and meaning.

You may notice gradual changes in breath, posture, tension, perception, emotional tone, sleep, energy, or resilience. Sometimes the shifts are obvious; often they are quiet, steady, and deeply regulating over time.

Every session meets you exactly where you are. Together, we listen to what your system is communicating, support what is ready to change, and invite new patterns of coherence, capacity, and connection. Above all, expect an attuned and respectful space—grounded in science, guided by curiosity, and deeply honouring of your body’s intelligence.