WHAT IS EP?

Embodied Processing is a somatic-based healing approach that helps you reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom. It’s a trauma-informed modality that gently guides you to feel, process, and release emotions, memories, and patterns that have been stored in the nervous system often for years, even decades.

Unlike traditional talk therapy that focuses primarily on the mind, Embodied Processing works with the whole body, where trauma and emotional pain are often held.

You are not broken.
Your body has been trying to protect you.
And it remembers what your mind might have forgotten.

Why We Need It Now More Than Ever

In this day and age of overstimulation, digital overwhelm, emotional suppression, and chronic stress, many people live in a constant state of dysregulation, fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

This doesn’t just affect your mental health.
It affects your digestion, your hormones, your ability to parent, to rest, to focus, to receive love.
It affects how safe you feel in your own skin.

Embodied Processing supports you to:

  • Come back to the present moment

  • Befriend your body instead of fearing or fixing it

  • Gently release stuck emotional energy

  • Expand your capacity to feel without being overwhelmed

  • Reclaim the safety and stability that was once lost

How It Works

Through guided 1:1 sessions, we create space to:

  • Tune in to sensations, not just stories

  • Allow your body to show what’s ready to be processed

  • Use slow, safe techniques to metabolise held trauma

  • Complete survival responses that never got to finish

  • Build internal safety, resilience, and trust

We don’t force or analyse.
We listen, sense, and respond with compassion.

Over time, you’ll find yourself:

  • Less reactive, more grounded

  • Better able to sit with discomfort

  • Naturally regulating emotions without suppression

  • Feeling lighter, more in tune, and more whole

The Tools Are Within You

Embodied Processing reminds you that you are not powerless or dependent on external fixes.

Your body is not the enemy.
It is the messenger.
And when you learn to listen, you begin to heal.

This is not about bypassing pain or pretending everything’s okay.
It’s about learning to stay with yourself, especially when it’s hard and discovering that you are strong enough to do so.

Is This for You?

If you feel stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or like you keep repeating old patterns despite “knowing better,” Embodied Processing offers a path inward.

This work is gentle yet powerful, ideal for anyone navigating:

  • Trauma (big or small)

  • Chronic stress, anxiety, or burnout

  • Emotional numbness or reactivity

  • Body image struggles

  • Feeling lost or disconnected from self

You don’t have to talk your way through everything.
You can feel your way home.

“The body always leads us home... if we can trust it to.”
– Resmaa Menakem

"Sitting with our felt senses allows us to truly experience and understand our emotions. By showing compassion and welcoming all parts of ourselves, we create a nurturing space that facilitates the healing journey, leading to greater self-awareness and emotional resilience."

  • Embodied Processing helps those with trauma and anxiety by creating a compassionate space and building the capacity to sit with and experience their emotions. This process taps into the science of the nervous system, which plays a critical role in our emotional and mental health. When we experience trauma, our nervous system can become dysregulated, leading to heightened states of anxiety or a sense of being stuck in a fight, flight, or freeze response. By focusing on felt senses within the body and welcoming all parts of our experience, Embodied Processing helps to recalibrate the nervous system, promoting a state of safety and balance. This regulation allows for a deeper processing of emotions and helps to release stored trauma, facilitating long-term healing and resilience.

    • Safe Environment: The practice creates a safe space where individuals feel supported and not rushed. This safety is crucial for the nervous system to shift from a state of hyper-arousal (fight or flight) or hypo-arousal (freeze) to a state of calm and balance.

    • Grounding Techniques: Through specific grounding techniques, individuals learn to anchor themselves in the present moment, which helps reduce anxiety and stress. These techniques can include mindful breathing, focusing on the feet, or feeling the support of the ground or a chair.

    • Experiencing and Integrating Emotions: Rather than avoiding or suppressing difficult emotions, Embodied Processing encourages experiencing them fully in a manageable way. This helps in integrating these emotions, preventing them from overwhelming the nervous system.

    • Building Capacity: Gradually, individuals build the capacity to sit with uncomfortable emotions and sensations without becoming dysregulated. This increased capacity leads to a more resilient nervous system.

    • Polyvagal Theory: Embodied Processing often utilizes principles from the Polyvagal Theory, which explains how the vagus nerve influences our emotional state. By engaging in practices that stimulate the vagus nerve (like deep, slow breathing), individuals can enhance their parasympathetic response, promoting relaxation and recovery.

  • Sessions should be scheduled at least fortnightly to allow time for integration. Our starting package covers 3 sessions, which is essential for establishing safety in the body. This structure helps you build a solid foundation and ensures you have time to process and integrate the work done in each session.

Karen

“Deb not only helped me to find a resource in my body which I did not think possible, but also facilitated reconnection to my oneness after closing off for 2.5 years.”

Vesa

“My session with Deb was excellent. She has a very gentle way of holding space and allowing you to build your capacity.”

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