The way home is through the body
Unfurl:
/ʌnˈfəːl/ verb
To unwind and open from a tightly held position.
Somatic psychotherapy is a body-based modality that recognises that when we experience difficult emotions, stress, and trauma, we experience these things in our body much more so than in our mind. If these experiences are unable to be processed at the time (which they often aren’t), they can manifest as holding patterns in our body, where they continue to unconsciously influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
Somatic psychotherapy brings the body into the therapeutic process, allowing these past experiences to move through our system and be integrated properly, enabling us to discover who we are when we are no longer living through the lens of our past.
Taking a somatic approach to therapy can help you to:
↝ Cultivate emotional resilience through building a felt sense of safety within your body as well as greater flexibility and capacity in your nervous system.
↝ Process and integrate past traumatic experiences and alleviate symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
↝ Rewrite deeply-held beliefs and stories that are keeping you stuck in old patterns, so that you can live from a place of intentionality and presence.
↝ Build a relationship with your body based in self-compassion, increasing your ability to listen and respond to its subtle (and not-to-subtle) signals.
↝ Manage, relieve, or resolve physical symptoms and dis-ease that have been brought on or exacerbated by chronic stress and trauma.
↝ Let go of ways of relating that do not serve you and cultivate the ability to have genuine and nourishing connections with the people in your life.
↝ Create a life that is full of vitality and authenticity, in which you move towards what you desire with confidence and ease.
Hi, I’m Elly
Welcome to this space - I’m so glad that you’ve found your way here.
I am a certified Integrative Core Energetics Somatic Psychotherapist, Embodied Movement and Breathwork Facilitator, and Coach.
I have worked with trauma survivors in a range of capacities for over 8 years, both as a therapist and coach, as well as within the legal industry, mental health sector, and family and domestic violence and sexual violence sector.
My work is also informed by my own lived experiences of complex trauma and chronic illness. These experiences - and the ways in which somatic therapy and trauma-informed care have supported me through all of them - are one of the big driving forces behind my work today.
My deepest held intention in this work is to hold space for the most tender parts of you to be seen and loved, so that your most authentic self can be expressed and you can have the felt experience of unfurling.