Michaela Kendall
Michaela Kendall
Trauma and nervous system informed
Psychotherapy & yoga
Just talking is keeping you stuck
How the mind body approach helps
This approach creates space for change on three levels.
First, developing a deeper understanding of how your relationship with stress was shaped and why these patterns made sense at the time. Second, processing unresolved emotions and past experiences so they no longer hold the same weight, allowing both your mind and body to recognise that the threat has passed. Third, working directly with the nervous system to cultivate safety, increase your capacity to cope, and build a more compassionate relationship with your body.
The goal isn't to eliminate stress. It's to increase your capacity to meet it.
NERVOUS SYSTEM INFORMED
YOGA
Befriending your body
For learning to feel safe again in your body, in stillness, in rest.
For people who have spent years pushing through, nervous system informed yoga offers an opportunity to slow down, reconnect with your body's signals, and discover that rest doesn't have to feel unsafe.
- 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.
We will uncovering the experiences and adaptations that taught you to survive.
- 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."