What is Somatic Psychotherapy?
Somatic psychotherapy helps you tune into the moment-by-moment dialogue between your brain and body. By noticing how your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and bodily sensations interact, we can gently explore habitual patterns that may no longer serve you. Through this awareness and simple body-based techniques, you develop practical tools to respond with calm, clarity, and resilience, creating change that feels embodied and sustainable.
Somatic Therapy is ...
A brief explanation of how Somatic Therapies can support you.
How I work as a Somatic Therapist.
My approach recognises that your brain and body influence each other moment by moment. Stress, anxiety, and past experiences can shape this two-way communication, creating patterns that once protected you but may now feel limiting.
I combine person-centred counselling with somatic therapy to explore how your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and bodily sensations interact. Together, we gently notice the habitual patterns your system has learned and support them to shift.
Through dialogue and body-based awareness, you develop tools that help you feel calmer, clearer, and more able to respond to life with confidence and resilience.
Nature and your Nervous system
FAQs for Somatic Psychotherapy
What is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy helps you notice how your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and bodily sensations interact and how these patterns affect your wellbeing. Working with this dynamic interplay can support self-regulation, emotional balance, and the ability to respond to life’s challenges with more clarity and resilience.
How is Somatic Therapy different from talk therapy?
Talk therapy focuses mainly on thoughts and emotions. Somatic therapy adds attention to how your body responds and interacts with these thoughts and feelings, helping you understand patterns and gently shift habitual responses.
What happens in a session?
Sessions begin with conversation, inviting you to notice what’s happening inside. Using dialogue, mindful awareness, and simple body-based practices, we explore how thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and bodily sensations interact, helping you leave feeling calmer, clearer, and more connected.
Does it involve physical touch?
Touch may be offered as a way to support self-regulation techniques. It is always explained and fully consented to before use.
What kind of issues does Somatic Therapy help with?
Somatic therapy can support people experiencing stress, grief, relationship challenges, life transitions, anxiety, trauma, chronic tension, or habitual patterns that affect emotional balance and wellbeing.
Do I need a doctor’s referral or Mental Health Care Plan?
No, you can self-refer for counselling or somatic psychotherapy.
Do you offer private health fund rebates?
No, counselling and psychotherapy services are not covered under the Medical Benefits Scheme in Australia.
How do I get to the Body's Way?
We are located in the Inner Shine Clinic,
Suite 6/108 Bronte Road, Bondi Junction NSW 2026, Australia
Bus Routes: 313, 350, 360, 379 - Stop ID 202235, Bronte Rd at Birrell St,
Bondi Junction Train Station: 10-minute walk
