wHAT IS Somatic Therapy - and how can it help you?

If you’ve been scrolling wellness content lately, you’ve probably seen the word “somatic” everywhere. Maybe paired with promises that one hip-opening exercise will heal your trauma. I want to offer something different - an honest, grounded explanation of what somatic therapy actually is, why it works, and what it can look like in practice.

Because it isn’t woo-woo, and it isn’t a hip exercise from a tik tok reel.

My own story

I studied ballet from the age of three. Movement was always part of my life - a language, a discipline, a way of expressing things I couldn’t yet put into words.

But it wasn’t until I started my own therapy journey in my early twenties that I realised something uncomfortable: I had spent years treating my body as a machine. Something to push through, to overcome, to use in order to get the results I wanted. Not a home. Not an ecosystem. Not something to actually live through.