Michaela Kendall
Understand your mind.
Listen to your body.
Change your relationship with yourself.
Somatic Therapy Online and In Person - Anlaby, Hull
Free monthly practice via substack
Therapy for people who learnt to override how they feel, and become stuck in cycles of emotional numbness and emotional outbursts.
I help you understand the deeper roots of your coping mechanisms and create a space you can experience your emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them.
Your emotions were never too much, you just didnt know how to listen to them.
Talking alone can only take you so far
Change happens when the mind and body work together
How the mind body approach helps
Theres an often frustrating tension between knowing your old coping mechanisms and patterns, and not knowing how to experience them differently
Awareness
We start by noticing how you learnt to run from, distract from, or bury what you feel, and where that pattern began. Often it goes back further than the present moment, to childhood, and to what was never modelled for you.
Processing
Together, through breath, movement and simply staying with what's there, you build the capacity to feel what belongs to the past, so it stops living in your body as if it's still happening now.
Reconnection
You learn to notice what comes up, in your body as much as your mind, without turning on yourself for feeling it. Not perfectly, not always calmly... just honestly. That's what makes room for a fuller life, not a smaller, more managed one.
Feeling too much was never the problem..
knowing how to process it was.
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.
Understanding the roots of how you learnt to override what you feel
Inner child and parts work
Processing what was too much to feel, at the time
Breaking cycles that insight alone hasn't shifted
Sessions are trauma-informed and somatic — breath, movement and body-based work woven in alongside talking, at your pace.
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'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."