What is a Trauma Informed Somatic Therapist?

Working with your body to rediscover more clarity, peace and joy.

Show me the light through the darkness

Trauma doesn’t just live in the mind, it lives in the body and the mind holds the score until the unconscious becomes conscious...

We view the world through the state of our nervous system, if you feel stuck in anxiety, overwhelm, or disconnection, you’re not broken. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it learned to do to keep us safe.

Until we are able to feel safer in our bodies and come home to us, we can feel disconnected like we do not belong, it is a survival response which then becomes a learned habitual response to keep us safe. These learned patterns are stored in our subconscious and until we are able to give space to these feelings, until the uncomfortableness becomes familiar and we are able to complete the trauma cycle, we may not be able to transform the emotions from traumatic memories and it will continue to show up in the present and drive our everyday behaviours and our reactions.

Somatic trauma informed therapy helps us gently work with our body and make the unconsicous conscious, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with yourself, at a pace that feel safe and supportive without tramatisation.

What is showing up for you in the everyday? Do you feel like you do not belong but are longing to belong? Are you stuck in fight or flight or freeze and longing to relax? Do you feel enough?

Experiences even the one’s we do not choose will shape you and may become your greatest teacher and gift to know yourself and allow you to show up authentically..Are you listening?

Let me help you reconnect with your body for greater clarity, peace and joy and rediscover your authenticity...

“Until you remove the emotion from the memory it will continue to rule from the shadows"

Vanessa Pickford

Be Inspired

Veronika

"I was really struggling, mentally and with grief. Vanessa introduced me to tapping, and it really helped me day to day, it is my saviour. I tap most days! Without Vanessa I wouldn’t have know about tapping. After each session I felt lighter and calm. It was a lovely experience, thank you Vanessa.

Sarah

"Vanessa is very compassionate and creates a very safe and relaxed environment, which made me feel comfortable, able to share and can take your time feeling the things you’re feeling. I never felt rushed and I felt like she was really present with me in each session we had together. I also liked the fact that Vanessa worked with me to find the words that felt right to me, as opposed to being too prescriptive. I felt like she gently guided me to where I needed to go, but let me feel the way myself. This made my sessions feel very personal and true to me and helped me to really connect to my emotions and experiences."

Caroline

Vanessa is very perceptive; she senses my mood and needs early on in a session and uses different techniques to guide me to a better place to get the best from our time together. She is patient and always encouraging in her guidance. I never doubt that she believes in me, which makes me feel empowered. She is both practical and creative in setting clear and realistic goals and solutions. I always feel motivated after our sessions. Vanessa is a compassionate, caring and incredibly supportive coach and human being.

Claire

"Vanessa provides a wonderfully safe space in which I am able to share my feelings. She is non-judgmental and empowering. The words she chooses to use are carefully selected and resonate with how I am feeling. She has a unique ability to re-phrase thoughts and emotions in a positive way to allow me to start to think differently. "

Louise

"The tapping clarifies scenarios and highlights the emotions involved. The re-programming with Timeline Therapy was excellent. Vanessa is wonderfully empathetic and helps me feel and see issues for what they really are, she can put her finger on the exact thing needed rather than focusing on the story behind it, screening it. Always friendly and perfectly professional. I appreciate the way Vanesas works according to my needs working through the layers of resistance as and when necessary, and she pick ups on the subtleties skillfully."

Helen

"Vanessa was brilliant in her approach, I was honestly surprised by my emotional response, it was very powerful, and I found it to be such as positive experience to help me move forward. I am so grateful for her time, empathy and compassion, I wish I had come sooner."

Katy

I am so impressed with her wealth of knowledge on this subject and have been able to adapt many of her ideas into my daily diet. My last session both of us agreed to look more deeply into IET (tapping). This is all quite new to me. We based the session around poor self-esteem as this was my objective and we covered past traumas in this process. I rediscovered by depth of feelings that were uncovered. My trust and confidence in Vanessa is phenomenal.