Somatic Therapy for people navigating trauma, grief, chronic illness, and life’s thresholds.

This work is for people who know they need more than insight alone. For those who feel things deeply, who are tired of pushing through, and who want support to meet life with more capacity, compassion, and embodiment.

Somatic therapy is not about fixing what is broken, it is about creating the conditions where your body, nervous system, and inner world can begin to soften, reorganise, and come back into relationship.

A little about me…

Whatever therapeutic modality you choose to work with, it will be the relationship and the container that you create with your therapist that will contribute the most to your healing journey. You can head over to my about me page if you want more detail but I thought it would be helpful to share a little here as well.

I am a queer, neurodivergent, non-binary, disabled human who also lives with C-PTSD. I have been on my own huge journey of unravelling and truly meeting myself through various therapeutic practices and including my body in my process was the radical shift I needed. While I don’t think this great work of meeting myself is ever done, through somatic therapy I have found more ease, more joy and more connection. Most importantly a deeper capacity to feel all my emotions and navigate the inevitable challenges of life.

I don’t believe healing is linear or ever “finished,” but through somatic therapy I have found more capacity to feel, to relate, and to move through life with greater ease and self-compassion. This lived experience informs how I hold space, with patience, humility, deep compassion and respect for the intelligence of the body.

WHAT IS SOMATIC THERAPY?

Soma is a word that means the living body.

Somatic therapy is a body-led approach to healing that recognises how trauma, grief, and chronic stress live not only in our thoughts, but in our nervous systems, tissues, breath, and patterns of sensation. Many of us have learned to survive by disconnecting from our bodies, by pushing through, overriding signals, or living mostly in our heads.

These strategies often develop for good reasons. They help us cope, stay safe, and function. But over time they can limit our capacity for pleasure, rest, connection, and aliveness.

Somatic therapy gently invites the body back into the conversation.

Rather than analysing or fixing, we move slowly and with curiosity, building a relationship with the body and listening to what it communicates. This can support the completion of stress and trauma responses that were once interrupted, and help create more ease and choice in how we meet life.

This is depth work. It unfolds over time and within relationship. I am not here to push or force change, but to help create a container where your system can begin to soften, reorganise, and find its own rhythm again.

Life will always include challenge, loss, and grief. Somatic therapy does not remove this, but it can increase your capacity to stay present, connected, and resourced, even when things are hard.

THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF SOMATIC THERAPY.

Somatic therapy is a whole body approach to therapy (the head/mind is also a part of our body) and some of the potential benefits are...

• The opportunity to build a fuller relationship & communication between mind, body & psyche.

• Find more ease and relaxation even when life is feeling hard.

• Learn about our nervous systems and how they impact our lives.

• Learn skills for tending to your body and resourcing.

• Build more capacity for all of our emotions & expressions.

• Support for when you are moving across life’s big thresholds and initiations.

• Care & support for when you face life’s big losses and building a deeper relationship with grief.

• The possibility to integrate & process past trauma (only once our relationship & resourcing has been established)

• Experiencing more joy & connection. 

• Establish more connected & fulfilling relationships with others, remembering our entanglement.

Please note that I am not a clinician or doctor. I can’t diagnose anything, offer prescriptions or advice on medication.

I am also trained in preparation and integration with psychedelics if you are looking for support in this area. Please note, I do not offer to hold space for psychedelic journeys as this is currently illegal in the UK. Neither do I recommend this to clients, however, there is a growing number of people exploring this and I felt this was an important area to gain knowledge in so I can support people further.

how we work together…

Sessions may feel similar to talking therapy at first, especially as we take time to get to know one another and build trust. From the beginning, however, we include the body in the conversation.

This means we pay attention to sensation, breath, movement, emotion, and nervous system responses alongside words and story. I may offer simple somatic practices, reflections, or resourcing tools, and there is also a gentle coaching element where I share knowledge and support integration between sessions.

Everything I offer is an invitation. You are always welcome to say no, adapt a practice, or let me know what feels supportive or not. This work is collaborative and led by you, with my guidance and presence holding the wider container.

Sessions are 50 minutes and take place online via Zoom. I also offer sessions outdoors in nature in Folkestone, subject to weather and availability. Working online does not reduce the depth of the work, in fact, many people find it more accessible and regulating to be in their own space. You are welcome to sit, lie down, be wrapped in blankets, or arrive exactly as you are.

Read more here about what we explore in a somatic therapy session.

Somatic therapy is relational depth work. It takes time for trust to form, for the nervous system to settle, and for the body to feel safe enough to soften and reveal what it is holding.

For this reason, I ask for a minimum commitment of 12 sessions, either weekly or fortnightly.

This commitment is about creating enough continuity and safety for the work to be meaningful.
In my experience, it is only after a number of sessions that the real work, what I sometimes call the descent, begins to unfold.

Twelve sessions allows us to:

• establish a stable therapeutic relationship

• build resourcing and capacity

• begin working with trauma, grief, and long-held patterns in a supported way

This work asks for participation, curiosity, and willingness to engage with what arises. I will meet you with care, honesty, and respect, and I ask the same in return.

After our initial 12 sessions together we can then review whether to continue and at what rhythm.

Costs…

• A block of 12 sessions is £750.00, you can either pay up front or it can be split into three payments every four sessions.

• Accessible/sliding scale options (online only). You can choose to pay either £300/£450/£600 for 12 sessions. Either paid up front or three payments every four sessions. These are for those of you who might not have access to a lot of financial resources. No questions asked just let me know when you reach out that you need one of these. (Currently at capacity for sliding scale, I will update when space becomes available)

I intentionally limit my workload so that those I work with receive my full presence and care. I have priced my work as accessibly as I can while living with disability and navigating the cost of living.

If you are in crisis and need support but have no financial resources, please still reach out and we can explore what may be possible.

Before deciding to work together, we will have a 30min consultation (free of charge) Just fill in the form below to get this booked in.

KIND WORDS FROM CURRENT & PAST CLIENTS…

‘Ami supported me over almost a year cycle of my life as I was moving through instability and grappling with the uncertainty of these times, as well settling into queer identities in myself. Working with Ami has been a really grounding and supportive experience - in each session, I felt seen and honoured in my messiness. It felt easy to show up with whatever I was moving through, and there was a shared practise in our work together of also honouring what was happening for the collective. Ami gives a really honest and settled presence, which helps bring out what's really true in that moment. I feel grateful for our work together and I recommend Ami to a lot of people I meet who are grappling with their sense of self and the wider world.’

‘I had done a lot of somatic work, could explain all my patterns and yet I needed to be seen and held. That's what I found working with Ami 1:1. A compassionate presence, truthful anchor, that allowed me to go into the messy without getting lost or dilute myself into the group or rest of the world. I could retrace very important connections within, which have started to move the way I relate to certain challenges and how they impact my life. I am glad I can soon resume therapy and keep on integrating and feeling simply more and more at ease with myself.’

‘I'd never tried therapy before, but was feeling stuck and couldn't work out what was going on. I found Ami through Instagram and there was something about them that made me feel safe to reach out. 10 months in, I feel like I understand myself better, I feel like Ami has given me the tools and insight into life and has helped me through some really big and scary moments of my life. Having sessions with Ami has been the best investment in myself and their non judgemental and gentle approach to our sessions has made it so much easier to do something that is ultimately very vulnerable and quite scary! Thanks so much Ami!’

‘I came to Ami at a very difficult time in my life, in the midst of grief. I was desperate for a language to be able to describe and understand what I was experiencing and with time I could reflect on how normal it was. What I came to realise, with Ami's guidance, was the different kinds of grief I was living through and how this was showing up in my body. 

During our sessions I have been learning "how to be a body" and since I heard them describe somatic therapy in this way I have reflected on how we all need this in our lives and how severed we are from what we feel.

It has been such a journey to experience somatic therapy, and with Ami's support and insight I feel so much more connected to myself, others and the earth. The space is helping me to understand the things I truly want and need and helping me to take the steps to reach them. I am grateful to them for the transformative space we've held together and look forward to what will come in the future.’