Somatic therapy and counselling for adults + teens.
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SOMATIC AND COGNITIVE APPROACH TO COUNSELLING
You’ve talked about it for years. You know your story. You understand where your struggles came from. You’ve gained insight into why you feel, think, and respond the way you do. But knowing why hasn’t necessarily changed how you feel. So why are you still struggling?
By working with mind, body, nervous system, and spirituality together, we can reach the root causes of your patterns—where they’re stored in your system—instead of only addressing them with thoughts and concepts.
We’ll go beneath the surface and into the architecture of your lived experience: What does your body remember? What is it trying to tell you?
By slowing down and allowing to focus within you learn to realise that your body can be your greatest resource, friend and teacher.
Somatic therapy and coaching has proven effective for issues such as:
Post- traumatic stress disorder(PTSD/CPTSD)
Anxiety
Depression
Compulsive disorders
Spiritual emergence/y
Chronic pain
Autoimmune disorders
You do not need to have it all figured out before starting. You simply need to arrive as you are.
Many of us live with constant stress, anxiety, burnout, or feeling disconnected from our bodies and the world. This can show up as rumination, restlessness, fatigue, headaches, low immunity, or difficulty feeling safe, alive, or able to access pleasure.
This approach is strongly influenced by Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing®. He observed that wild animals rarely develop traumatic stress because they naturally complete their nervous system’s stress cycles—through shaking, fleeing, or fighting—without suppressing these impulses.
Humans, by contrast, often override these instincts to fit social and work demands (e.g., not running from a threatening boss). Over time, this can leave our nervous systems stuck in activation or shutdown. Somatic therapy helps you safely reconnect with and complete these natural cycles, reducing stress and restoring a sense of safety, aliveness, and embodiment.
*Footage from Blue Planet II with David Attenborough.
Watch this beautiful example of a wild animal processing the charge of a stressful experience. I n this footage from Blue Planet II, a bird narrowly escapes a potentially lethal attack — and then shakes, releasing some of the excess activation in its body.
It doesn’t sit and analyse what happened.
It doesn’t need to understand why it happened.
Its body simply responds.
And this is something we, as humans, can lose touch with.
Because understanding something intellectually and experiencing a shift in the body are not always the same thing. Sometimes, the missing piece isn’t more insight into why you are the way you are. Sometimes, it’s learning to listen to what your body is still holding — and giving it the opportunity to complete responses that may have been interrupted, suppressed or never fully processed. This is one of the principles at the heart of somatic approach : helping us reconnect with the body’s innate capacity for regulation, resilience and healing. We have an extraordinary animal heritage. And sometimes, healing involves remembering what the body already knows.
HERŌSOMA Pathways
HERŌSOMA offers four supportive pathways, which we call the 4 R’s FLOW.
Reset, Release, Reconnect, Restore
The 4 R’s were created to help you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and move through life with more ease, confidence and clarity. The 4 R’s are the guiding principles of HERŌSOMA Somatic Counselling. We draw on the pathway that feels most supportive for you, depending on where you are and what you need. The 4 R’s follow our AAPTBE framework — a life-based approach designed to help shift the way you understand yourself, your experiences and the patterns that may be keeping you stuck.
And the best thing about it? It fits you.
Whatever your age, whatever your circumstances, we meet you where you are and work at a pace that feels safe and manageable.
No rush. No forcing. No retraumatising.
Just a focus on progression, integration and helping you reconnect with yourself.
Reset part is designed to support your nervous system regulation through breathwork, gentle somatic activations, intuitive movement and grounding techniques. Reset is a space to slow down, settle, and begin to feel safe in your body again.
RELEASE
Release focuses on deeper somatic bodywork and unwinding, helping to soften what has been stored physically and emotionally. This part supports you to let go of tension and create more space in the body and mind.
RECONNECT
Reconnect approach help you come back into relationship with yourself through embodied awareness, reflection, and supportive practice. This is a space to rebuild trust, presence, and connection from the inside out.
RESTORE
Restore, support your integration, self-trust, and gentle forward movement. This is ideal ending process for when you are ready to strengthen your boundaries, reconnect with your direction, and bring what you have learned into everyday life.
This is where bodyfulness and presence come in.
In our sessions, we gently bring your attention into the present moment — not just to your thoughts, but to your sensations, emotions, images and behaviours. Helping mind and body come back into connection.
As this connection grows, many people discover a deeper sense of themselves — their strengths, desires, inner wisdom and even spirituality.
We also believe we don’t regulate alone. As humans, we are wired for connection and co-regulation. The therapeutic relationship can offer a safe space to experience, explore and strengthen your nervous system’s capacity.
Because your body is intelligent.
Even the things that feel painful, confusing or self-defeating may have developed as ways of trying to keep you safe.
Sometimes, we simply need to bring the body up to date — gently working with what is old, so you can reconnect with the wisdom and goodness that has been there all along.
