Trauma Counselling

My approach is grounded in the belief that healing is not just a cognitive process, but a full-bodied, experiential one. As a body-based  student intern counsellor, my work goes beyond traditional talk therapy by inviting the body, nervous system, and inner parts of the self into the healing process.

Blending somatic modalities like Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Internal Family Systems, my sessions support clients in tuning into the subtle cues of their body as powerful sources of insight and transformation. Rather than staying at the surface, I gently guides clients toward the roots of their struggles that are often held in early attachment wounds and the body’s implicit memory of past experiences.

In this way, therapy becomes more than a conversation; it becomes a space for embodied healing. All of these processes are grounded in the nervous system’s innate capacity to integrate what was once overwhelming—creating the conditions for deep and lasting change.

Trauma can be understood as any experience that overwhelms the nervous system’s capacity to process and integrate it in the moment, leaving survival responses incomplete and unprocessed.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® is a body-centered approach to healing trauma. It sees trauma not just as a psychological event, but as something held and expressed in the body. From this perspective, healing doesn’t come only from talking about what happened, but from gently bringing awareness to how the body remembers the experience—through patterns like bracing, collapsing, freezing, or restlessness.

How Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Works:

The wisdom of the body is a source of primary intelligence, intention, information, and change. Sensations, postures, gestures, and movements reveal an innate knowledge that goes beyond cognitive understanding.

Instead of reliving the trauma or focusing solely on the narrative, healing in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy happens by tracking these subtle bodily cues and allowing incomplete survival responses (like fight, flight, or freeze) to be safely recognized and, when appropriate, completed. This process helps reestablish a sense of agency, an internal felt sense of safety, and regulation in the nervous system.