feel deeply.
heal honestly. live fully.
Somatic Healing (ISTP®)
Your Body as a Portal
The body holds a history that isn't always available through thought alone.
Somatic practice gives you a way to explore that experience directly.
Which sounds more like you?
You might recognize yourself more in one group, in both, or somewhere in between.
Somatic work helps you to be with whatever you're experiencing and slowly come into a place of ease, connection, and love.
In time, you may find that you feel more intimate with your partner, loving toward your children, less affected by others behaviours and beliefs, stand firmly in your own knowing, and experience the world in a differnet way.
You feel everything
“I can't handle this anymore.”
“I just need everyone to leave me alone for a minute.”
“Why can't I unclench my jaw?”
“I'm so tense all the time.”
“I'm exhausted, but I can't seem to slow down.”
“Why do I keep reacting like this when I know better?”
“I feel like I'm always bracing for something.”
“Why does everything irritate me?”
“Is this just stress? Hormones? Or something else?”
you don't feel much at all.
“I'm fine. I just need to get on with it.”
“Why do I shut down when things get difficult?”
“I don't know what I'm feeling. I just know something's off.”
“I keep pushing through, even when I know I need to stop.”
“I don't really talk about this stuff.”
“I don't feel much of anything. Is that normal?”
“I don't want to talk about it. I just want to feel different.”
Somatic work helps you
be with
Nothing is promised when we work with our inner landscape. Somatic practice (ISTP®) is largely exploratory, invitational, relational, and evolving. It's about creating a relationship with your body, its energy, and the spiritual supports available to us.
You may notice your chest, jaw, or stomach feeling softer instead of constantly tight; ability to access a deeper, fuller breath; old reactions don't feel as immediate or as consuming as they used to; you feel less "haunted" by past experiences in your day-to-day.
Letting the body release what its been carrying from the past
You may notice recogising your limits before you hit burnout or rage; knowing when you need rest, space, or support without second-guessing yourself; feeling calmer about what is "yours" vs what you're carrying for others.
Moving through life with clarity
Staying centered or grounded
You may notice pausing before reacting; being able to stay present when your child is melting down; recovering more quickly after stressful moments instead of staying stuck in them.
You may notice feeling more emotionally present with your partner or children; you may begin to feel guided by something quieter inside you rather than only urgency, fear, or pressure.
Reclaiming joy, pleasure, and play
You may notice laughing more easily with your children instead of just managing them; reconnecting with parts of yourself that are not just mother/worker/responsible one; experiencing brief, but real moments of lightness in your day.
Opening to love, intuition, and spirit
If this touches a place of longing or desire witin you, then let's begin together.
"Angela has a beautiful gift for creating a space where women can show up exactly as they are, speak from the heart, and feel deeply heard without judgement.
I always felt lighter, more centered, and grateful for the experience."
- Mary D.
Kind Words
what to expect: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Are you a therapist?
I am not a clinical somatic therapist who diagnoses or treats trauma or mental health conditions.
A somatic therapist is a licensed or regulated mental-health professional who incorporates the body into psychotherapy.
As a somatic practitioner, I offer body-based practice outside the scope of psychotherapy. The work may involve attention to sensation, movement, breath, touch, body awareness, nervous-system responses, and embodied experience, but it isn't psychotherapy or mental-health treatment.
We work with what is present in the moment. There's no need to uncover or diagnose everything that happened in the past in order to have a meaningful impact.
do you treat trauma?
I do not diagnose or treat trauma or mental-health conditions. My work is trauma-informed, meaning I take into account the ways overwhelming experiences shape our relationship with our bodies and our lived experience.
Somatic work can sometimes support the resolution and integration of responses that developed around difficult or traumatic experiences.
This may happen through developing a different relationship with sensation, movement, activation, and embodied experience, without needing to revisit or retell the experience itself.
This is different from providing trauma therapy or psychotherapy. If someone is seeking treatment for PTSD or another mental-health condition, I recommend working with an appropriately qualified mental-health professional. Somatic practice can also be complementary to that work.
Is ISTP® right for me?
For some people, somatic work becomes interesting when an intellectual understanding alone hasn't changed the way they experience something. They may understand their patterns and their pain very well and still notice that those patterns continue to persist. For others, somatic work is interesting because they have difficulty putting what they experience into words.
ISTP® is an experiential and largely non-verbal practice. That means your insights and understanding arrive in a different way than if you talk, think, or reflect upon what's happening in your life.
There is no particular state you need to reach before beginning. You don't need to know what's wrong, have a trauma history, or know exactly what you're looking for. Curiosity is enough.
A session is an opportunity to discover what your body and your experience have to show you, rather than arriving with a predetermined outcome.
Do I have to talk about difficult experiences?
No. You remain in charge of your experience throughout a session.
Somatic work doesn't require you to revisit a difficult memory, disclose something you're not ready to share, or push through an experience that feels like too much. We work with what is present, at a pace that allows you to stay connected with your own sense of choice and agency.
Sometimes something unexpected may arise—a sensation, emotion, memory, or movement. You can pause, change direction, open your eyes, move, talk, or stop at any time. There is no particular experience you need to have and nothing you need to accomplish.
The practice is not about forcing something to happen. It's about becoming curious about what is already happening and discovering what becomes possible when you can meet your experience with greater awareness and choice.
What is ISTP®?
It integrates trauma-informed healing practices, including:
- Restorative postures
- Breathwork
- Somatic bodywork
- Bioenergetic Unwinding
- Mindfulness
- Embodied Resilience
- Sound healing
- Ceremony
- Ancestral Reverence
- Somatic processing & integration
What if I’m uncomfortable with touch?
Touch is never required. If you’re not comfortable with practitioner touch, we can work with movement, sensation, breath, and self-touch instead. And even self-touch is completely optional.
You are always invited to choose what feels appropriate for you. There is no expectation that you will receive or offer touch in order to participate meaningfully in a session.
Will I experience anything overwhelming?
We don't intentionally move into overwhelm.
Somatic work may bring you into contact with physical sensations, emotions, or experiences that are uncomfortable, including tension, pain, activation, or other sensations that you've learned to move away from. The intention is not to push through these experiences, but to explore them in a way that allows you to remain present, connected, and able to choose what happens next.
We work within what you can stay with. You can slow down, pause, shift your attention, move, or stop at any time. This allows you to explore and process difficult experiences without needing to become overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself.
Will this
help me?
Somatic work isn't about achieving a particular state or fixing something that's wrong with you. It offers an opportunity to experience yourself in a different way.
You may begin to notice patterns that are difficult to access through thought alone, and discover what happens when you stay present with your experience rather than automatically moving away from it.
For some people, this can create greater awareness, choice, and capacity in their everyday lives. Sometimes experiences or responses that have been held in the body can shift, change, or resolve. Every person and every session is different. There is no particular outcome you need to achieve for the work to be meaningful.