About Me
Healing is not a straight path - it's a journey through the body, mind and heart.
My Journey
My journey into trauma-informed work began not just through professional training, but also through lived experience. I've navigated through complex trauma myself and seen how it effects the nervous system, relationships, and even how we experience daily life.
My Approach
This has shaped my approach: compassionate, safe, and centred on your pace and needs. I combine evidence-based methods with empathy and a lived understanding that theory alone can't teach
My Mission
My mission is to provide a safe, compassionate space for individuals to heal from trauma and reclaim their lives. Recovery is not about fixing what is broken - it's about reconnecting with your wholeness and your inner strength.
Who I Support
I support individuals who are on a journey of coming home to themselves. Individuals who are untangling old patterns, healing from relational and childhood trauma, and learning to trust their bodies as a source of wisdom again.
What Trauma-Informed Means
Being trauma-informed means recognising how trauma impacts the nervous system, the body, and the mind. It means:
Safety First
Everything we do happens at a pace that feels safe for you.
Choice & Empowerment
You're in charge of your journey.
Presence with
compassion
There's no judgement, only support.
Whole - person approach
We work with your body, mind, and emotions together.
My Methods Explained
Here's a clear and simple overview of the approaches I use in my work. Each modality supports your healing in a different way - whether that's regulating the nervous system, understanding your inner parts, shifting old patterns, or reconnecting with your body's natural wisdom. Together, they create a holistic, gentle, and effective path toward lasting change.
The Internal Family System (IFS) - Parts Work
We all have different "parts" of ourselves - protective parts and wounded parts. Parts work allows us to listen to and integrate these parts, instead of pushing them away, so you feel more whole and balanced.
Somatic Hypnotherapy
Somatic Hypnotherapy works deep within the body's wisdom and unconscious patterns stored in the nervous system.
Polyvagal Therapy
Polyvagal therapy helps you understand and calm your nervous system. It teaches your body to move from stress mode into a state of safety and connection through simple, gentle techniques like breathwork and grounding. It's about helping you feel regulated, steady and more in control.
Breathwork
Breathwork is a powerful, body-led practice that supports nervous system regulation, emotional release, and deeper self-connection.
Using intentional breathing techniques, we gently access what the body may be holding, stress, trauma, suppressed emotion. Allowing space for integration, clarity, and healing.
Your breath becomes the bridge back to calm, back to truth, back to you.
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology is the study of what helps people thrive. Rather than focusing only on problems or what's "wrong," it centres on strength, resilience, joy, meaning, and the ability to create a fulfilling life. It explores how we can nurture our inner resources, build supportive habits, and experiece greater wellbeing. In practice, Positive Psychology helps individuals reconnect with their potential and live in alignment with their values, confidence, and self-worth.
Hypno Spotting
This is a gentle body based way of bringing awareness to unconscious responses, so they can shift naturally without force. It's less about "fixing" and more about helping the body complete what it once couldn't.
Narcissistic Abuse
Specialist
As a Narcissistic Abuse Specialist, I support individuals in understanding, healing, and recovering from the emotional and psychological impact of narcissistic relationships. I help clients rebuild self-trust, regualte their nervous system, and reconnect with their sense of worth, safety, and identity.
Professional Certifications and Credentials
I am a certified Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach, a Positive Psychology Practitioner & a registered hypnotherapist with full professional insurance. Every client relationship is guided by a clear safety contract, ensuring mutual respect, confidentiality, and ethical practice.
Certification & Training
CPD & ICF Somatic Trauma Informed Coaching & Leadership Certification
Clinical Somatic Hypnotherapy Certification
CPD & ICF Trauma Informed Positive Psychology Practitioner Certification
Somatic Hypno Spotting Certification
Breathwork Practictioner Ceritication
CPD Accredited Narcissistic Abuse Specialist Certification
Registered Hypnotherapist with The American Board of Hypnotherapy. (ABH)
Professionally Insured
Ongoing professional training in additional modalities and certifications
Informed by Leading Trauma-Informed Frameworks
Trauma-Informed
Polyvagal-Informed (nervous system regulation and safety)
Somatic-Informed (body-based healing)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)- Informed (parts work & self-leadership
What this means for you
When you work with me, you'll find:
A safe, confidential, and compassionate space
Approaches tailored to your nervous system and your pace
Tools that blend somatic awareness, hypnotherapy, parts work, and positive psychology
A practitioner who honours both science and lived experience
Ready to Transform?
Join me at Somatically Empowered for a coaching experience that fosters safety, self-trust, and personal growth. Start your healing journey with guided support.