What actually happens in a 1:1 somatic session

Sessions are 1:1 and online, held in UK and European time zones. You need a quiet-ish room, headphones if you have them, and that's it. No mat, no candles, no performance.

1. We start where you actually are

Not with a formal intake interrogation. Just: what's going on, what brought you here today, what's been loudest this week. Some people arrive with a very clear thing. Some arrive with “I'm overwhelmed and I genuinely don't know why.” Both are completely fine.

2. We check what your body is doing while you talk

This is the part that's different from talking therapy. As you tell me something, I'll gently slow us down and ask what's happening in you. Tightness, heat, nausea, heaviness, restlessness, blankness, a lump in your throat, nothing at all.

“Nothing at all” is also information. Numbness is a strategy, not a failure.

3. We work with what's there, at your pace

You will never be pushed to relive something. We don't need the whole story, and we don't need the worst day of your life on the table in week one.

Instead we stay with a manageable piece of it, and let your body do what it does when it finally has enough safety and time: shift. That can be a breath that drops lower. Shaking or heat. Tears. A yawn. A thought arriving that you've never had before. Sometimes very little in the moment, and then something noticeably different two days later.

4. We land it before we finish

We never end mid-wave. The last part of a session is about coming back: orienting to the room, feeling your feet, noticing what's actually different now. You should be able to close your laptop and go back to your life.

What people notice after a few sessions

• Catching stress earlier, before it becomes a bad week
• Being able to stop before running themselves into the ground
• Sleeping better, or being able to put the phone down at night
• Pain or physical symptoms becoming more manageable, and sometimes easing significantly
• Reacting less intensely to the things that used to flatten them
• Feeling less permanently switched on

What this is not

I'm not a licensed psychotherapist and this isn't medical treatment. The work is genuinely therapeutic, and it sits alongside therapy or medical care rather than replacing it. If something is outside my scope, I'll say so plainly.

There are also a small number of reduced-rate spaces for people out of work or in financial difficulty. You can just ask. No essay required.