offerings

Individuals and groups looking to work on:

• Overwhelming stress

• Indecision or a feeling of “stuckness”

• Nervous system dysregulation

• A desire to slow down and live more fully or prevent burnout

• Pressure from the polycrisis, especially for activists

• Feelings of inadequacy

• Growth in the aftermath of trauma with somatic healing methods

• Building resilience with ongoing systemic oppression

• Self-actualisation in the face of historical marginalisation

• Coping with late disability or chronic illness / chronic pain

• Rebuilding life after intimate partner violence

• Desire to deepen meaningful connections

• Repairing ruptures in relationships

• Engaging in conflict in generative ways

• Finding a balance between boundaries and connection

• Navigating life transitions and identity

• Building self-esteem

• Dismantling old beliefs

• Difficulties acknowledging your unearned privileges

• Finding a sense of aliveness

• Individual and collective resistance

• Disabled, neurodivergent, queer individuals

• People living in Europe looking for English-speaking practitioners in their time zone (though clients are welcome from everywhere)

• Any combination of the above or related issues

• A very basic answer would be: Somatics work includes the body for the process of healing rather than work with only talk therapy. We combine cognitive work with somatic practices.

• The term “Somatics” was coined in 1972 by Thomas Hanna. Soma (Greek) means “The living organism or body in it’s wholeness.”

• In somatic coaching, we try to see the whole of human beings, including the biological, psychological, social, and energetic aspects.

• This is a shift from the Cartesian way of thinking, where the thinking mind’s wisdom is considered superior. (“I think, therefore I am.”)

• Challenging/traumatic experiences often lead us to take on a somatic “shape” that we might feel stuck in. Somatic coaching creates a space for clients to move on from conditioned tendencies that limit their choices.

• Somatic coaching is a strengths-based client-centred practice, which doesn’t see people as “broken.”
  
  (Sources: International Coaching Federation and generative somatics)

• Coaching, yes—but not the hustle kind

• Deeply transformative for a majority of people but still not a magical pill that needs no effort

• Not exclusively body-based or sensations oriented. It’s more layered and holistic than that

• Not psychotherapy, but that doesn’t mean we exclude talking or the cognitive aspect

• The movements are not offered for mechanical exercise

• It’s not a space solely to offer relaxation or meditation

Politcised somatics as defined by generative somatics:

“Somatics is a path, a methodology, and a change theory, by which we can embody transformation, individually and collectively. Embodied transformation is foundational change that shows in our actions, ways of being, relating, and perceiving. It is transformation that sustains over time. Somatics pragmatically supports us to align our values and actions. It helps us to develop depth and the capacity to feel ourselves, each other, and life around us. Somatics builds in us the ability to act from strategy and empathy, and teaches us to be able to assess conditions and “what is” clearly. Somatics is a practice-able theory of change that can move us toward individual, community, and collective liberation. Somatics works through the body, engaging us in our thinking, emotions, commitments, vision and action.”

“Somatics asks, "What are you practicing?" Given we are always practicing something, we look, "Is what you are practicing aligned with what you most care about?" “

“We are always living inside of a social context. The institutions and social norms we are surrounded by are currently and have historically shaped us. We are both in a historical moment, and strongly shaped by the flow of history before us. We embody our social contexts, just as we are shaped by and embody our family contexts, communities and the land/environments that influence us. When we are looking at transformation, social context is one of the most influential forces, whether we are focused on personal, community or systemic change.”

(In alphabetical order): Anti-Carceral, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Caste, Climate Justice, Decolonisation, Disability Justice, Gender-Affirming, Immigrant/Refugee/Migrant Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty & Land Back, Neurodivergent Affirming, Racial Justice, Transgender Justice, Transformative Justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ Justice

Please note not all somatic coaching is the same. This is my perspective and that of my lineages.

• Somatic methods help clients move beyond cognitive insight, which talk therapy may provide. Being aware of our past or our patterns doesn’t always shift how we feel or act. Somatic work aims to bring about an embodied shift.
  

• Somatic coaching doesn’t diagnose people as disordered or diseased. Nor is the coaching process viewed as “treatment.” Though if clients feel getting a diagnosis from “psy” experts empowers them, we honour that.
  

• Rather than see clients as “broken” and in need of “fixing,” somatic coaching works on the premise that some individuals are in distress or facing a set of challenges.
  

• Mainstream modalities marginalise the wisdom of the body in favour of the mind, which the Cartesian worldview has taught us to do. Somatic coaching values the wisdom of the mind and body.
  

• Somatic coaching considers clients as experts of their own experience. This is different from “psy” approaches where the practitioner is considered to be the expert who analyses, diagnoses, or wields authority over the “patient.”

• Drawing from a mix of indigenous and Global South traditions alongside contemporary psychology, somatic methods guide us through everything from decision-making to deep healing. Psy disciplines tend to view themselves as the only legitimate ways to “cure” people, though that is shifting.
  

• “Psy” disciplines have a fraught colonial and misogynist legacy. Somatic coaching is a newer way of holding space so it doesn’t carry the burden of such a legacy (yet!)
  

Yes. Although it’s not movement for the sake of it (which in itself is a good thing). Movement is invited depending on what your body needs and can access.

Absolutely. There’s no physical touch required from the coach in these sessions. Though the client may be invited to work with self-touch or touch-based gestures, where appropriate.

• My full rate is 120 euros.

• I offer a sliding scale of 65 - 120 euros, though spots fill up fast for the lower rates.

• For availability, please check the booking page or get in touch.

• All sessions last an hour.

I’ll be happy to answer your questions. I offer one free 25-minute discovery call. Send me a request here.