Embodiment

A somatic psychotherapist on what sensory-aware therapy actually looks like in practice. Camera off, fidgets welcome, long pauses, plain language, a pace that matches your nervous system. For neurodivergent adults wondering what kind of care actually fits.

Climate distress often arrives in the body before it arrives in words. A psychotherapist's notes on climate grief, solastalgia, and what somatic therapy can hold when the body is already registering what the mind is still trying to manage.

Anxiety often arrives in the body before it arrives in words: tight chest, racing thoughts, thin sleep, a gut that won't settle. A Vancouver psychotherapist on what is actually happening when worry won't stop, and what a body-first approach to anxiety therapy can hold.

What trees do for each other underground, what they offer with each breath we share, and what their long, quiet steadiness can teach a tired body. Notes from a Vancouver psychotherapist on the company of trees.

Experiential therapy isn't a procedure I run on you. It's a present-moment way of working that lets the body lead. Here's the texture of an experiential turn from inside the room: the noticing, the slowing, the small experiment, and what changes when the body has time.

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.

Sometimes something in you starts asking for attention without giving you words for it. This post is about that quiet edge in the body, why it tends to go unheard, and what it asks of you when you turn toward it slowly with company.

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.

Writing can be a quiet companion to therapy when it is done from a body that stays with itself. A Vancouver-based therapist on journaling between sessions, for clients.

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.

Trauma-sensitive yoga didn't begin as a wellness trend. It came out of a clinical question: what helps people whose trauma lives in the body in ways talk therapy hasn't reached? Here's the origin story, the research, and what makes the method distinct.

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.

Chronic pain is often a learned pattern in the nervous system, not a signal that something is currently damaged. The research has shifted substantially in the last several years, and therapeutic approaches now reach what medical care cannot.

If you've ever felt not queer enough in your own body, you're not alone. A gentle look at where that pressure comes from, what it asks of you, and what starts to soften when you let your body off the hook.

A personal reflection on accompanying a parent through a long illness. What presence actually asks of you, what anticipatory grief feels like in the body, and what stays when words stop working.

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.