Integrative Mental Health and Specialist Trauma Services

Somatic Strength Studio is a specialist therapeutic service for adults, couples and families. We provide confidential psychotherapeutic services both nationally and worldwide. Our specialism is in working with attachment trauma, dissociation and chronic pain.

Ashgrove | Mt Gravatt | Online

A therapy studio that offers somatic psychotherapy & somatic movement for trauma recovery.

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Trauma imprints our physiology. Movement & Somatic healing is the pathway…

Does this sound familiar?

Trauma not only conditions our mind into having protective belief systems that keep us safe from threat…it also conditions our body into patterned responses that reflect the traumas.

By tuning into the wisdom of the body, we can understand the inherent intelligent processes of the body and mind to discover the habitual, automatic attitudes (both physical and psychological).

This gentle and empowering approach is particularly helpful in working with the effects of trauma, relational trauma, and difficult past attachment relationships.

Learn about how I work >

Feel chronically stressed and exhausted?

Experience unexplained pains in your body?

Oscillate from overwhelming flooding of emotions to numbing?

Engage in the same reactions to situations despite trying to change?

Feel disconnected from your own body?

Unresolved trauma memories showing up in the present?

Unable to move on from hurtful experiences as if you had no control over it?

A Therapy relationship
to help you

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Build a pathway full of resources so you can safely manage trauma responses and triggers.

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Help you process and resolve traumatic stories through your body so you never have to feel unsafe in your body.

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Build Neuroception to help you live fully in the present moment and confidently to manage relationships and life from an Embodied Body.

To be strong is to be soft, vulnerable, safe and resourced

To be strong is to be soft, vulnerable, safe and resourced

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So why do movement & other somatic approaches work for trauma…?

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Trauma permeates our physiology affecting more than just our core beliefs around how safe the world is. It disrupts our body functions, our ability to regulate our nervous system states and the deeper parts of our brain that control our emotional and survival responses.

Movement and somatic interventions directly increase our nervous system’s capacity to recognize and distinguish between past and present threat and engage the appropriate defense responses to manage the experience of the threat.

They support conditions within our body that allow natural healing processes to reorganize and facilitate resolution of the stuck or buried trauma energy.

Read more about the science behind somatic approaches and trauma >

I am passionate about helping you find safety and strength in your body…

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