Attending to the body and what exceeds language.
Somatic sessions for exploring how you inhabit yourself and your life.
You may understand yourself very well, and still find that understanding doesn’t always change how you experience yourself and your life.
Perhaps you overthink, feel disconnected from yourself, become overwhelmed, or find yourself existing in familiar ways of relating.
Kia Ora, I’m a somatic practitioner based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, offering an approach to therapy grounded in attention to the body and direct experience.
Many people come to therapy already knowing why they feel the way they do, yet still find themselves caught in the same emotional or physiological patterns. Understanding can be important, but it doesn’t always change how we experience ourselves and our lives.
Sessions are collaborative and attentive to what emerges through your body. Rather than pushing for insight or quick solutions, we make space to notice what is happening as it unfolds.
This work isn’t about forcing change or arriving at a particular state. It is about developing a different relationship with what is already here, through attention to sensation, emotion, movement and language.
Understanding often arrives long before change does.
The distance between the two is where this work happens.
You might come to this work if you are:
experiencing anxiety or overwhelm.
moving through a significant transition.
noticing recurring patterns in your relationships.
feeling disconnected from yourself and your body.
wanting to explore experiences that are difficult to understand through words alone.
interested in a different way of approaching therapy.
If something in this approach resonates, you are welcome to book a session to begin our work together.
I am currently undertaking a three-year clinical training in Lacanian psychoanalysis at the Clinical College of Psychoanalysis Aotearoa. Alongside this, my somatic training includes Somatic Experiencing and Embodied Processing. I also have postgraduate level study in conceptual art at Elam School of Fine Arts.
These influences shape how I work: attending to language and what exceeds it, to the meanings we carry, and to the body’s subtle intelligence.
I’m interested in how experience is held not only in what we think and say, but also in sensation, movement, emotion, and the felt sense.
Together, these perspectives inform a way of listening that makes space for both what can be articulated and what may emerge through the body.
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