I spent years in therapy. Good therapy. I had the knowledge, the frameworks, the self-awareness. I could trace every pattern back to its root. And yet — I still felt shame. I still regressed. Something remained just out of reach.

I had felt things in therapy before. Of course I had. But there is a difference between feeling while your mind watches — and dropping below the mind entirely. In somatic work you let go of the thinking. You stop narrating your experience and you simply enter it. The body becomes the guide. And feeling from that place — without the commentary, without the analysis — is something else entirely. It's direct. It's cellular. It moves things that years of talking never could.

It wasn't until I experienced that for myself — fully, in my body, in my nervous system — that everything shifted.

I remember the moment. It was like sliding all the way down into myself for the first time. A warmth. A connection I had never felt before. As if my whole nervous system was finally exhaling. The things that had felt so heavy, so permanent — they got small. Manageable. There was room.

That was the moment I understood. Avoiding only holds us back. Feeling is the way through.

My Background

I am a certified VITA coach with a BA in Psychology and an MSc in Counselling Psychology from the UK. Before becoming a coach, I worked as a psychotherapist across mental health clinics, private practices, and prisons in the UK and France — working within cognitive behavioural, humanistic, and psychodynamic models.

Over time I came to understand the profound limitations of talk alone. Beliefs identified in the mind but never felt in the body don't shift. The nervous system doesn't respond to insight. It responds to experience. To safety. To presence.

That realization brought me to embodiment — and changed everything about how I work.