What a session looks like
Sessions often begin with something small and concrete: where your feet are, what your breath is doing, where you are holding. Not as a relaxation exercise, but as information — the body frequently reports something before you have words for it.
From there the work might involve tracking a sensation as it changes, small deliberate movements, or simply pausing when something shifts. Nothing involves touch. Everything is invited rather than instructed, and you can decline any of it without explaining why.
Who it tends to help
Somatic work suits people who live largely in their heads — who can analyse a problem thoroughly and still feel tense, braced, or disconnected from the neck down.
It is often valuable where trauma sits in the nervous system rather than in memory: chronic hypervigilance, shutdown, startle, exhaustion that sleep does not touch. It also helps people who dissociate, by building a way back.
How it fits alongside other work
Body-oriented work runs alongside talk therapy rather than replacing it, and most of our clinicians weave it into whatever else is happening.
We go at your pace and always with consent — the body is invited into the work, never pushed into it.
Our approach
We work with the body at your pace and always with consent, using somatic awareness to support nervous-system regulation alongside talk therapy — especially valuable for trauma that words alone can't reach.
Why connect with us
If you feel stuck in your head, chronically tense, or disconnected from your body, somatic work can help you come home to yourself. We go at your pace and always with consent — the body is invited into the work, never pushed into it.
Good to know
Body-Oriented & Somatic Therapy, in brief.
Is body-oriented therapy the same as somatic therapy?
Yes. "Somatic" comes from the Greek word for body, and the two names describe the same way of working: bringing attention to sensation, breath and movement alongside talk therapy. We use both terms, and so do our therapists.