Counselling

Relational Somatic Therapy • Counselling • Parts Work (IFS-Informed)

Relational Somatic Psychotherapy is a blend of talk therapy and body-based work. We pay attention to the things your mind alone can’t fully understand — sensations, breath, impulses, emotions, images — the quiet language of your system. The body speaks in images, sound, metaphor.

This is where we start to find the survival strategies and “parts” of you that show up when life feels overwhelming, confusing, or just too much. For some, it’s anxiety or panic. For others, it’s numbness, checking out, a freeze response, or a feeling of floating away. Some people even feel “nothing” at all. All of this makes perfect sense.

Many people who come to work with me have done therapy before. They understand their patterns really well on a cognitive level. But they still feel stuck. That’s because insight doesn’t always shift what the body learns in order to survive. And even for those who therapy is new for, understanding the language of the body can help you live a life based out of authenticity and a sense of self.

So instead of analyzing the past from afar, we explore what’s happening inside you right now, in the moment. Slowly. Gently. With full respect for every protective strategy that got you this far. We don’t push past or override any parts but instead slow down enough to attune to them.

This approach helps you build more capacity, understand your system, and meet old patterns in a new way. The relationship between us — attuned, grounded, safe — becomes the container that makes change possible.

Who I work with

I often work with people who:

• identify as neurodivergent

• experience overwhelm or disconnection relationally

• feel "behind" in life or in specific areas like romantic and physical intimacy

• find day-to-day life overwhelming or confusing

• have a big rich inner world or do not sense any inner world at all

• feel too much, too often, or get flooded

• feel very little or can’t find words for what’s going on

• have layered, complex systems

• struggle with decision-making or knowing what they want

• feel unsure of their sense of self

• are artists, sensitives, or creatives

• have lived through trauma or CPTSD

• haven’t felt fully met in traditional talk therapy

Many of my clients haven’t felt fully understood in traditional talk therapy. This work offers another way in.

For transparency:

I’m a queer, neurodivergent survivor of CPTSD and shock trauma, and my lived experience informs everything I do. I aim to create a space that feels welcoming and accessible, and admit to being just a human that is always learning how to do that better. I’m comfortable working with a variety of relationship structures. Every relationship has its own energy and dynamic, and I’m interested in exploring that with you.