Wholistic Embodiment Collective

Our approach

Wholistic embodiment family therapy

Therapy that listens to the body

An integrative approach combining family systems work, somatic practice, mindfulness and neuroscience.

Hands resting one over the other on a terracotta cushion in warm window light

In the room

What a session can feel like

  1. i.

    Resourcing and grounding

    Finding anchors of safety, in the room and within the body, before anything difficult is touched.

  2. ii.

    Family pauses

    Stopping mid-conversation to notice breath, sensation and posture — yours and each other's.

  3. iii.

    Orienting and movement

    Noticing the space around you, and how your bodies move with one another.

  4. iv.

    Completing old responses

    Letting the body safely finish fight, flight or freeze responses left over from the past.

Try this now

Where do you

feel it?

Bring to mind a conversation at home that didn't go well. Not the words — what your body did while it was happening. Tap wherever you notice something. Nothing is saved or sent.

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Tap a point on the figure.

What we mean

Embodiment

in plain words

Moving out of your head and into real-time experience: sensations, emotions and the quiet cues your body gives you. Feeling things as a body, rather than watching your body from the outside.

Exteroception

Sensing outward: sight, sound, touch and smell. How you take in the world around you.

Proprioception

Sensing where your body is in space, and how it meets gravity.

Interoception

Sensing inward: heartbeat, hunger, tension and breath — the signals from inside you.