Somatics

Sometimes the body is still bracing for something that ended long ago. A look at how unfinished defensive responses, like fight, flight, freeze, or cry-for-help, can stay in the body, and how a body-based approach helps them complete in present time.

Parts are the different aspects within you. An introduction to embodied parts work and why slow is the point. A Vancouver-based therapist on what shifts when parts feel heard instead of managed.

The body is not separate from where it is. A Vancouver-based therapist on how an ecological lens on body and land shows up in our practice, and in online therapy sessions across Canada.

Trauma lives below thought in tension, bracing, and disconnection. This post explores what somatic resources are, how they support nervous system regulation, and what body-based trauma therapy looks like in practice.

If you've come across the words felt sense and wondered what they actually mean, this is the long version. Where Focusing came from, what Eugene Gendlin discovered in his research, what the body's quiet knowing actually is, and why this work continues to shape psychotherapy.

Focusing Oriented Therapy can be hard to picture from the outside. Here's how a Focusing turn actually unfolds in a session: the felt sense, how I listen, the small shifts that move things forward, and what becomes possible when the body has the time it needs.

Some bodies have been on alert for so long that the bracing feels like personality, not pattern. This post is about what chronic bracing actually is, why it doesn't just relax on command, and what becomes possible when movement is small, slow, and chosen.

Reclaiming your body after years of body shame is not a project or a plan. It is a slow turning toward what was always yours. A Vancouver-based therapist on the rupture, the reckoning, and the reclamation.

Experiential psychotherapy begins with what is present in the body and in the space between us, right now. An introduction to what the approach is, the lineages it comes from, and what actually happens in a session that works this way.

Trauma-sensitive yoga in therapy isn't a yoga class on a screen. It's a slow, choice-based way of moving with what the body has been carrying, alongside someone trained to follow your lead. Here's what it actually looks like with us, online, in your own room.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-first way of working with trauma, attachment, and the patterns we did not choose. A grounded introduction to what we do together in the room, written by the therapists who practice it.

Therapist self-care is not a bubble bath. It is the work of recovering your nervous system from the states you sit in with other people. A body-first approach to what helps in the small seams of a working day.

On gender-pleasure, intimate embodiment, and what becomes possible when a trans body is allowed to be information, not only a problem to solve. A first-person reflection from Clayre on Lucie Fielding's second edition of Trans Sex, and what feeling good can open.

When someone is overwhelmed, reasoning doesn't land, because biology takes the thinking brain offline. A look at regulate, relate, reason: the sequence that helps, whether you're trying to reach someone you love or come back to yourself.