Michaela Kendall
Welcome, I'm Michaela, or 'Kaela'
I work where the mind and body meet.
Helping you move beyond overwhelm, suppression, busyness, avoidance and burnout. So you can understand your experiences, stop repeating the same (unhelpful) patterns and learn to feel differently.
Respond rather than React
We can't think our way out of everything we feel
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'm my own harshest critic, even when I am doing everything right."
"I hold so much for others, but can't find my way back to myself."
Talking alone can only take you so far
Change happens when the mind and body work together
Top-down - Talking Therapy
Making better sense of it
Bottom-up - Somatic Therapy
Learning to feel it, safely
Understanding where your patterns began
Exploring childhood, relationships and the roots
of how you learnt to cope
Making sense of anxiety, low mood or disconnection
Inner child and parts work
Noticing what's happening in your body, not just your mind
Learning to stay with sensation, tension or stillness, instead of moving past it
Breath and gentle movement, woven in as needed
Building the capacity to actually feel, not just understand
The mind Body Approach does both
Feeling too much was never the problem..
knowing how to process it was.
