Michaela Kendall
Michaela Kendall
Nervous System Informed Psychotherapy & yoga
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.
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.
The goal isn't to eliminate stress. It's to increase your capacity to meet it.
Many people who arrive here have already done a lot of work on themselves. They've read the books, listened to the podcasts, perhaps even been to therapy. They understand why they think and feel the way they do, yet something still feels stuck.
Through a combination of psychotherapy, nervous system awareness and body-based practices, we'll explore the patterns that developed to help you cope, reconnect with the signals of your body, and build the capacity to meet life's challenges without constantly overriding yourself.
The goal isn't to eliminate stress. It's to develop a different relationship with it, one rooted in awareness, self-trust and the ability to respond rather than simply survive.
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, trauma-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
- Learning to rest without feeling unsafe
- 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
- Inner child and parts work
- 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."