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Your body has been trying to tell you something.

 I'm Michaela, I help those who live with the effects of chronic stress. Who keep going, keep coping, and keep carrying more than they show, until the body makes it impossible to ignore. 

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I work at the intersection of psychotherapy and the body, drawing on somatic integration, nervous system science, and trauma-sensitive yoga to support people who feel stuck despite everything they've tried.

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Free monthly somatic practices, straight to your inbox

Short, manageable somatic practices you can do anywhere.

Psycho-education and practical tips to manage stress, fatigue, anxiety and overwhelm. 

"Sometimes the path forward isn't through the mind. It starts in the body."

Many people who find their way to this work are intelligent, self-aware, and have tried many things. They've read the books. They've been to therapy. They understand their patterns. And yet something still feels stuck.

That's because lasting change doesn't only come from insight. It comes from working with the nervous system, from learning to notice and tend to what lives in the body, and from building a relationship with yourself that feels safe enough to be honest.

This is the work I do.

Trauma-informed Yoga

Befriending your body

For learning to feel safe again in your body, in stillness, in rest.

Trauma-informed yoga (based on Emerson's trauma-sensitive principles) offers a gentle, choice-led approach to rebuilding your relationship with your body without force or performance.

- Nervous system regulation and settling

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- Learning to rest without feeling unsafe

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- Reconnecting with body sensations at your pace


- Moving from wired to grounded and present

Psychotherapy

Exploring the roots

For understanding why you feel the way you do, and beginning to shift it

Psychotherapy offers space to explore what lies beneath. We look at early experiences, relational patterns, and the emotional responses that formed long before you could name them.

- Processing difficult emotions and past experiences

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- Inner child and parts work

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- Understanding anxiety, low mood or disconnection


- Breaking cycles that insight alone hasn't shifted

Is this for you?

You might be in the right place if you recognise yourself here ...

"I understand my patterns, but I still keep repeating them."

"I can talk about my feelings, but I can't actually feel them."

"I feel fine on the surface, but something feels distant or off."

"I'm always 'on'. I can't fully switch off, even when I want to."

"I swing between exhausted and wired, and rest doesn't help."

"I hold so much for others, but can't find my way back to myself."

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