I'm Kate ♡ I am devoted to creating a safe, supportive space for you to process lingering trauma from past relationships & end toxic cycles by offering somatic & nervous system centred healing, restoring your capacity for both calmness & authentic expression

Somatics

I am a somatic practitioner trained in relational trauma therapy. Relational trauma refers to emotional harm that occurs in relationships, including caregivers, family members or romantic partners. This type of trauma is often the result of chronic patterns of abuse, neglect, betrayal, dismissal or boundary violations. Because the trauma originates in a relationship, where safety & trust should ideally be foundational, it can massively damaging to our ability to trust others, express honest emotions & feel secure in future relationships.

My work is grounded in creating a safe, supportive space where you can reconnect with your body & process trauma at your own pace.

While aiming for 'calm' is a valid goal of healing, a truly healthy nervous system supports authentic expression. Together, we work to restore your ability to feel safe expressing your needs, emotions & boundaries, whether that’s joy, anger, sadness or excitement.

ALL OF IT! 

This balance allows you to create a life where calmness & genuine expression coexist in all the messiness! 

I work with the nervous system, focusing on restoration, regulation, expansion & expression.

Somatic therapy reconnects us to our sense of self & gently expands our capacity for wholeness, expression, joy, safety, regulation & relaxation.

Our capacity for these things are often compromised after painfully impactful situations, when our bodies are overly focused on survival & threat detection.

 The support we receive or fail to receive, after a traumatic event can impact us even more than the trauma itself.

Trauma is a deeply personal experience. Having our emotions, memories & needs invalidated after the fact can be detrimental. Trauma already creates vulnerability, when that vulnerability is met with rejection, disbelief, blame or abandonment, we receive the message that our pain is not worthy of support.

This secondary trauma can be harder to heal from because it undermines the fundamental trust we have in those who are supposed to care about us but it can also question the trust we have in ourselves.

As survivors, especially if we were dismissed or invalidated, we may find ourselves questioning our worth, feeling isolated, asking ourselves "was it even that bad?!? Did that even happen??!!" or wondering if we will ever find safe & trustworthy relationships. We might feel full of shame, even blaming ourselves.

The fawn whispers, "Stay small to be safe."

It is a revolutionary practice to center rest, rage & regulation in a world that demands constant productivity.

 The systems that keep us tethered to constant productivity, capitalism, hustle culture, glorification of the 'grind', patriarchy, have conditioned us to believe our worth is measured solely by our output. These overlapping forces create a perfect storm that leaves little room for pause, reflection, rest, regulation or healing.

Even 'wellness' has been commodified into yet another form of productivity, turning even our rest into something we must optimise & achieve! Wellness has turned into pressure to spend hundreds of $ on products & supplements & painful beauty procedures to appear more desirable all sold to us as 'self care'. 

For survivors of abuse & trauma, this pressure to produce, be perfect, look better, can be devastating. Many of us learned to stay busy as a survival mechanism, using constant work & distraction to outrun our pain. In toxic & abusive relationships, our natural rhythms of rest & emotional expression were often weaponised against us. We were taught that our anger was "too much," our need for rest was "lazy," & our boundaries were "selfish."

This is why reclaiming rest & rage becomes essential to healing. When we allow ourselves to slow down, we create space to feel the full spectrum of our emotions. Rest gives our nervous systems the safety to begin processing trauma instead of staying locked in survival mode. Learning to regulate requires us to reject the myth that we must always be "doing."

When we rest, we remember that our bodies are not machines. When we regulate, we reclaim our right to move at a human pace. Together, these practices form a revolution of the body, one that declares our wholeness exists independent of our productivity.

In a culture that profits from our exhaustion & disconnection, choosing to rest & feel becomes a revolutionary act. It declares that our worth is inherent, our emotions are valid & our bodies deserve care, not because we've earned it through endless productivity, but simply because we are alive.

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"Even from the first session with Kate, she created such a calm and welcoming space for me to open up. I felt nurtured and seen. She had a gentle but loving way of getting me to dig a big deeper. I had so many breakthroughs and realised how much shit I put up with and how vitally important it was for me to start speaking up for myself and uphold my boundaries to preserve myself, instead of letting myself be taken for granted and run into the ground."

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"Kates sessions are a sanctuary."

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"The attempt to escape from the pain, is what creates more pain."

Gabor Maté

When You Are Ready...

When you feel ready to explore what’s beneath the surface, somatic therapy can offer a path to relief. Trauma can leave imprints in the body, manifesting as tension, anxiety or disconnection long after the distressing experience has ended.

Somatic therapy gently guides us back into connection with our bodies after disconnection or mistrust. It helps us discover & honour our authentic selves, our voice, desires & emotions, from anger & rage to joy & rest, allowing us to show up in all our complexity & mess.