Somatic Trauma Therapy in Brisbane, & Telehealth throughout Australia

Body-based treatment for complex trauma, dissociation, and nervous-system safety.

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Your past trauma may feel distant, yet its effects show up in your body and relationships every day.

You've tried to "think your way through" your trauma, but your body still holds the pain, tension, anxiety, numbness, or unexplained physical symptoms that won't go away.

You notice different "parts" of yourself emerging, one moment you're confident and capable, the next you feel small, scared, or defensive, and you don't understand why.

Your nervous system feels stuck in survival mode. You're either hyper-vigilant and anxious or shut down and disconnected, rarely feeling calm or grounded.

You struggle to stay present in your body. Dissociation, numbness, or feeling "checked out" has become your default way of coping with overwhelming emotions.

Relationships feel complicated because different parts of you want different things, one part craves connection while another pushes people away to stay safe.

Are you exhausted from feeling fragmented and disconnected from yourself?

Are you ready to reconnect with yourself?

  • You don't feel like one cohesive person; instead, you feel like a collection of conflicting thoughts, feelings, and reactions.

  • You're tired of your body's reactions controlling you, panic attacks, chronic tension, digestive issues, or pain that doctors can't explain.

  • You notice patterns of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, or self-sabotage, and you can't seem to break free no matter how much insight you have.

  • You long to feel safe in your own skin, but your body feels like a battleground rather than a home.

  • Traditional talk therapy has helped you understand your trauma intellectually, but you still don't feel different. The pain persists in your body and nervous system.

  • You're exhausted from carrying the weight of trauma in your body, and you want to finally release it.

  • You long to understand why certain situations trigger such intense physical reactions—the racing heart, the shallow breathing, the urge to flee or freeze.

  • You want to feel safe in your own skin again, to move through the world without constantly bracing for impact.

  • You're curious about the different parts of yourself and how they're trying to protect you, even when their methods no longer serve you.

  • You're ready to heal not just mentally, but physically and emotionally—to integrate all the fragmented pieces of yourself.

Complex trauma doesn't just affect your mind, it lives in your body and shapes how you experience yourself.

It's time to honour your body's wisdom and heal from the inside out.

Through somatic and parts therapy, you can finally address trauma where it lives, in your nervous system, your body, and the protective parts of yourself that formed in response to overwhelming experiences.

Are you ready to reconnect with yourself and heal from the inside out?

Healing is possible, and it doesn't require you to relive your trauma over and over. You can feel integrated, embodied, and free.

I'm here to support.

What healing can look like for you…

A deeper sense of safety and calm in your own body, and the ability to show up fully in your relationships and your life.

Areas of Expertise

    • Repeated, historic traumatic experiences such as:

      • Childhood abuse or neglect (emotional, physical, sexual)

      • Developmental trauma and attachment wounds

      • Long-term and past domestic violence or intimate partner abuse

      • Chronic invalidation or emotional abuse or gaslighting

      • Growing up in chaotic, unpredictable, or unsafe environments

      • Growing up with emotionally unavailable or unpredictable caregivers

      • Enmeshment or boundary violations

      • Childhood experiences of bullying or isolation

      • Systemic oppression or discrimination

      • Chronic Mental Health Issues

  • Early experiences that disrupted your sense of security:

    • Insecure attachment patterns

    • Parental mental illness, substance abuse, or emotional immaturity

    • Adoption or foster care experiences

    • Medical trauma in childhood

    • Loss of a caregiver or disrupted relationships

    • Generational or intergenerational trauma

  • Harm that occurred within relationships or Wounds from early relationships that affect how you connect today:

    • Domestic violence or intimate partner abuse

    • Sexual trauma or coercion

    • Betrayal trauma

    • Emotional abuse in adult relationships

    • Insecure attachment patterns (anxious, avoidant, or disorganized)

    • Fear of abandonment or difficulty trusting others

    • Codependency or enmeshment in relationships

    • Difficulty setting boundaries or knowing your own needs

    • Adult children of narcissistic or emotionally immature parents

  • When trauma gets stored in the body, including:

    • Chronic pain or tension without medical explanation

    • Digestive issues, headaches, or fatigue linked to stress

    • Nervous system dysregulation (anxiety, panic, or shutdown)

    • Disconnection from body sensations or physical numbness

    • Difficulty feeling safe or at home in your body

  • When different parts of you feel at war with each other:

    • Inner critic or harsh self-judgment

    • People-pleasing parts versus boundary-setting parts

    • Parts that want connection versus parts that fear vulnerability

    • Self-sabotaging patterns or conflicting desires

    • Feeling like "multiple versions" of yourself in different situations

    • Chronic Shame and Shutdown

    • Chronic Fight or Flight

    • Chronic Dissociation

    • Chronic Freeze and Functional Freeze

    • Chronic Somatic Pains

I often hear people who have experienced complex trauma say:

"I know what happened wasn't my fault, but I still feel broken."

"I know I should be able to trust people, but my body won't let me."

"I know I need to feel my feelings, but when I try, I either feel nothing or everything at once."

"I understand my trauma cognitively, but I still feel broken in my body."

"I know what I need to do, but there's a part of me that won't let me do it."

"I've been in therapy for years, but talking about it doesn't seem to change how I feel."

My Approach

I specialise in somatic (body-based) and parts-based therapy to help you heal where traditional talk therapy often falls short. Complex trauma isn't just a story you tell, it's held in your nervous system, your body, and the protective parts of you that formed to help you survive.

Through somatic therapy, we'll work directly with your body and nervous system to reorganise safety and sense of sense of self, address the imprint of stored trauma, regulate your emotions, and help you feel safe and grounded again. Unlike traditional talk therapy, somatic therapy helps you work directly with the sensations, movements, and impulses held in your nervous system. We'll help your body release what it's been holding onto and find new patterns of safety and regulation.You'll learn to tune into your body's signals, befriend your sensations, and cultivate a sense of safety from within.

Through parts work, we'll get to know the different aspects of yourself, the parts that protected you through impossible situations, the parts that carry pain, and the parts that hold your resilience and hope. You'll learn to bring compassion to all of who you are and create internal harmony., we'll explore the different parts of you, the protective parts, the vulnerable and wounded parts, the survival parts, the emotional and trauma holding parts, and help them heal and work together harmoniously. Instead of fighting against yourself, you'll develop compassion for all parts of you and learn to lead from your authentic, grounded Self.

This integrated approach will help you move beyond intellectual understanding into embodied healing, so you can finally feel whole, connected, and alive in your body.

Together, we'll integrate mind, body, and all parts of you, so you can move from survival mode to truly thriving.

I have specialized training in working with complex and developmental trauma, and I understand how early experiences shape your nervous system and sense of self.

We'll work at a pace that feels safe for you, always respecting your body's signals and your system's capacity. Through this work, you'll develop:

  • Greater awareness of your body's signals and needs

  • Skills to regulate your nervous system and manage overwhelming emotions

  • Compassion for all parts of yourself, including the parts you've judged or pushed away

  • A felt sense of safety and groundedness in your body

  • The ability to be present with yourself and others without becoming overwhelmed

Somatic & Parts Therapy can help you…

  • Finally address the trauma that talk therapy alone couldn't reach.

  • Feel safe and at home in your body for the first time, releasing chronic tension, pain, and nervous system dysregulation.

  • Learn to recognize and respond to your body's signals before becoming overwhelmed.

  • Develop a compassionate relationship with all parts of yourself.

  • Feel safe and at home in your own body, perhaps for the first time.

  • Build capacity for joy, connection, and presence in your daily life.

  • Create healthy boundaries and cultivate secure, authentic relationships.

  • Move through the world with confidence, groundedness, and self-compassion.

  • Understand and heal the different parts of you that have been in conflict, creating inner harmony and self-compassion.

  • Regulate your emotions effectively without numbing out, shutting down, or becoming overwhelmed.

  • Reconnect with your authentic Self and access your inner wisdom and resilience.

  • Build secure, healthy relationships where you can be vulnerable without losing yourself.

  • Set boundaries that honor your needs and create the life you truly want.

  • Move through the world feeling embodied, grounded, and empowered rather than fragmented and reactive.

Approaches

  • Sensorimotor & Somatic Psychotherapies

    Sensorimotor & Somatic Psychotherapies work directly with the body's sensations, movements, and physical experiences to process trauma. These approaches recognize that trauma is stored in the body and nervous system, not just the mind. By bringing awareness to bodily sensations, gestures, and movement patterns, clients can complete survival responses that were interrupted during traumatic experiences and develop new, adaptive patterns that support healing and regulation.

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  • Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment & Parts Work

    Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment & Parts Work uses a phase-based approach to healing, prioritizing safety and stabilization before processing trauma. This method recognizes that trauma can cause fragmentation of the self into different parts or states. Through compassionate parts work, clients learn to understand, communicate with, and integrate these protective and wounded parts, creating internal collaboration and coherence rather than conflict.

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  • Somatic Movement

    Somatic Movement utilizes intentional, mindful movement practices to release trauma held in the body, increase body awareness, and develop new patterns of relating to physical sensations. Movement becomes a language for processing what words cannot express, helping clients reconnect with their bodies, release chronic tension and pain, and build capacity for embodied presence and pleasure.

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  • Polyvagal Theory

    Polyvagal Theory provides a framework for understanding how the autonomic nervous system responds to safety and threat. This approach helps clients recognize their nervous system states—social engagement, fight/flight, or shutdown—and develop practices to shift between these states intentionally. By building awareness of nervous system patterns, clients can cultivate regulation, safety, and the capacity for authentic connection with themselves and others.

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  • Attachment Based Framework & DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy)

    Attachment Based Framework & DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) focuses on healing relational trauma and attachment wounds through the therapeutic relationship itself. This approach recognizes that early attachment experiences shape how we relate to ourselves and others. Through attuned, responsive therapeutic presence and co-regulation, clients can develop earned secure attachment, repair developmental trauma, and build capacity for healthy, connected relationships.

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  • Movement Science

    Movement Science applies research-based understanding of how the body moves, holds tension, and responds to stress to inform therapeutic interventions. This approach integrates knowledge of biomechanics, neuroscience, and embodiment to help clients understand their physical patterns, release chronic holding, and develop more adaptive ways of inhabiting their bodies that support both physical and emotional wellbeing.

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  • Dissociative Disorders & Structural Dissociation Framework

    Dissociative Disorders & Structural Dissociation Framework provides a comprehensive understanding of how trauma can cause the personality to fragment into distinct parts or subsystems, each holding different experiences, emotions, and functions. This framework recognizes dissociation as an adaptive survival response to overwhelming trauma, particularly in childhood. Through specialized therapeutic approaches, clients can work with different parts of their personality structure—emotional parts that hold traumatic memories and experiences, and apparently normal parts that manage daily functioning—to achieve greater integration, cooperation, and wholeness.

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You don't have to keep feeling fragmented, disconnected, and trapped in survival mode.

I'm here to help you learn to come home to your Self.

Together, we'll help your body learn to feel safe, your parts feel heard, and your whole self feel integrated and alive.

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Somatic & Parts Therapy FAQs

Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime. If you’re feeling ready, go ahead and apply.

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  • Somatic and parts therapy is especially helpful if:

    • You've tried traditional talk therapy but still feel stuck or symptomatic

    • You experience physical symptoms related to trauma (tension, pain, digestive issues, etc.)

    • You notice different "parts" of yourself with conflicting needs or reactions

    • You struggle with dissociation, numbness, or feeling disconnected from your body

    • You want to heal at a deeper, more embodied level beyond intellectual understanding

    If any of these resonate, somatic and parts-based approaches may be exactly what you need.

  • Sessions are tailored to your unique needs and may include:

    • Body-based awareness exercises to help you tune into sensations and emotions

    • Gentle exploration of different parts of you and their protective roles

    • Nervous system regulation techniques to help you feel grounded and safe

    • Processing traumatic memories through the body rather than just talking about them

    • Movement, breathwork, or other somatic practices as appropriate

    We'll always move at your pace, and you'll never be pushed beyond what feels manageable. Creating safety is our foundation.

  • No. One of the benefits of somatic and parts work is that you don't need to retell or relive your trauma to heal from it. We can work with what your body and your parts are holding without requiring you to share specific details of traumatic events.

    Somatic approaches allow us to work with trauma without needing to verbally recount every detail. Your body holds the imprints of your experiences, and we can work with those directly through sensation, movement, and nervous system regulation. That said, some people find it healing to share their story, and if that feels important to you, there's space for that too. We'll always move at a pace that feels safe and manageable for your system.

    Healing happens through experiencing safety and integration, not through re-traumatization.

  • The length of therapy varies based on your goals, the complexity of your trauma, and your unique healing process.

    Complex trauma work is a process that unfolds over time, there's no rushing healing. Some clients work with me for several months, others for a year or longer. Some clients experience significant shifts within a few months, while others benefit from longer-term support as they work through multiple layers of trauma and develop new patterns.

    Because somatic and parts work can facilitate deep healing relatively quickly, many clients find they make more progress in less time compared to traditional talk therapy alone.

    We'll regularly check in about your progress and goals, and you'll always have agency in determining what feels right for you.

  • I'm honored that you're considering working together and I'd love to support you on your healing journey! The first step is to schedule a consultation so we can connect and determine if we're a good fit. The therapeutic relationship is crucial for healing, so it's important that you feel comfortable and safe with me.

    If we decide to work together, we'll start by building a foundation of safety and stability before moving into deeper trauma processing. Your nervous system's capacity and your sense of safety will always guide our pace.

    If either of us feels we're not the right match, I'll gladly provide referrals to help you find the support you need.

  • While talk therapy focuses primarily on thoughts and understanding, somatic therapy works directly with the body and nervous system. Trauma lives in the body, in tension patterns, sensations, and nervous system responses. Somatic approaches like Sensorimotor Psychotherapy help you release trauma at this physical level, which often leads to deeper and more lasting change than talking alone. You don't need to have all the words or even remember everything that happened. Your body holds the wisdom and the path to healing.

  • Parts work recognizes that we all have different aspects of ourselves—some that protect us, some that hold pain, some that seek connection. When you experience trauma, especially in childhood, parts of you develop to help you survive. These parts might show up as the voice that tells you to shut down, the impulse to people-please, or the feeling of being stuck between conflicting desires. In therapy, we'll get to know these parts with curiosity and compassion. Instead of trying to get rid of them, we'll help them feel safe enough to relax their protective roles. This leads to greater internal harmony and the ability to respond to life from your authentic self rather than from survival patterns.

  • Sessions will vary based on your needs, but you can expect a blend of conversation and mindful attention to your body's experience. I might invite you to notice sensations, movements, or impulses that arise as we talk. We might work with gentle movements, breathing, or grounding exercises to help your nervous system find safety and regulation. Everything we do will be at your pace and within your comfort level. You're always in control, and we'll work collaboratively to find what feels helpful for you. Some sessions might feel more cognitive, others more embodied, we'll follow what you need in each moment.