How the Therapy Process Works

This approach is body-aware, relational, collaborative, and paced with care. We do not push or re-traumatise.

 

  • We will begin by helping your system recognise where you are now and that the immediate danger has passed.

    This may include noticing the room, sounds, contact with the chair or floor, breath, or simple movements that support stability. The aim is not relaxation, but a sense of being here and supported in the present moment.

    This foundation helps your nervous system feel safe enough to engage.

  • Before approaching anything difficult, we build support together.

    Resources can include physical sensations of strength or comfort, supportive memories or relationships, grounding images, or inner qualities such as resilience or steadiness.

    Resourcing gives your system something to return to if activation arises.

  • Rather than reliving the event, we gently move between safety and small amounts of activation.

    This allows the nervous system to experience that activation can rise and fall without becoming overwhelming. Over time, this helps restore flexibility and confidence in your capacity to cope.

  • During an overwhelming experience, the body may not have been able to respond fully.

    As the system feels ready, completion may occur through subtle movements, warmth, shaking, tears, or a sense of release. This is not forced. It happens naturally when the nervous system has enough support.

  • We take time to support integration into daily life.

    You may notice changes such as reduced reactivity, improved sleep or focus, greater emotional clarity, or a stronger sense of presence and trust in yourself.

    Integration helps these changes settle and become part of your everyday experience.

  • In this work, my role is to offer a steady, attuned presence that supports your nervous system in feeling met rather than pushed.

    I bring a high level of physical and energetic attunement, closely tracking felt sense, subtle shifts in breath, posture, tone, and nervous system activation. This kind of attunement supports regulation through the relational field itself, including the natural resonance that occurs through mirror neuron processes.

    Sessions are gentle and focused. We work with small, precise moments rather than intensity, allowing your system to organise itself without overwhelm.

    Agency is central to how I work. You remain in control of pace, direction, and depth at all times. Choice is continually supported, and we adjust whenever something feels too much or too fast.

    I pay careful attention to boundaries, timing, and nervous system readiness, creating conditions where change can emerge organically rather than being forced.

    My intention is not to fix or override your experience, but to support your system in completing what was interrupted, restoring a sense of coherence, trust, and self direction.

 
Faq

A few terms you may see here

Nervous system The part of your body that helps you respond to safety and danger. It influences how alert, calm, tense, or shut down you feel, often without conscious control.

Activation Moments when your body moves into alert, tension, emotional intensity, or shutdown as part of a natural survival response. This can show up as anxiety, tightness, freezing, numbness, or feeling on edge, even when you know you are safe.

Regulation The ability of the nervous system to settle, recover, and return to a sense of balance after stress or activation.

Felt sense The subtle, often hard to describe physical sense of what you are experiencing in your body, such as pressure, warmth, heaviness, or movement, before it becomes a clear thought or emotion.

Attunement A way of being with someone that involves noticing and responding to subtle emotional and physical cues, helping the nervous system feel seen, supported, and less alone.

Agency Your sense of choice and control. In therapy, this means you decide the pace, depth, and direction of the work, and nothing is forced.

Pendulation Gently moving between moments of ease and moments of activation, allowing the nervous system to process stress in small, manageable amounts. This is a core practice in somatic approaches to trauma, described as shifting between sensations of safety and sensations of discomfort.

Completion When the body is supported to finish a stress or survival response that was interrupted during an overwhelming experience, often leading to a sense of release or settling.

You do not need to understand these terms to benefit from therapy. They are included here simply to offer clarity and transparency.