We offer online somatic therapy for adults worldwide, supporting nervous system, trauma and attachment healing.
Our process is grounded in Somatic Experiencing® and other body-oriented methods. It creates a space where you can start to undo the effects of stress and trauma and attend to the emotional and relational wounds your body holds.
Gradually.
And with care.
At your nervous system’s pace.
What Brings You Here?
It’s possible that you’re not completely new to healing or starting from zero.
Yet despite your efforts, you might be feeling:
● disconnected from your body and stuck in your head
● bothered by physical symptoms that won’t go away
● burned out, chronically tired or sleeping poorly
● anxious, reactive or highly sensitive when everything feels too much
● stuck in a loop of Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn
● struggling to feel safe in relationships or manage relational difficulties
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It could be that you’ve been searching for a solution on your own or with the help of others, through self-healing practices, talk therapy or other methods.
Now you’ve come to a point where you want to address what’s been bothering you through your body, something that, perhaps, has been missing from your healing.
And you are looking for guidance in doing so.
If it sounds like you, let's explore it further.
How Online Somatic Therapy Works With Us
You may bring into our sessions something that is currently happening in your life, or a pattern you’ve been trying to change or understand. As you share about it, we’d pay attention to what happens in your body. This could be a change in your breathing, tension, an impulse or an emotion.
In our sessions, we follow your experience in the moment. Sometimes, we stay with a feeling or sensation a little longer. Sometimes, we shift attention away from it, finding something supportive in your surroundings, or noticing what your body wants to do.
How Somatic Therapy Helps
Somatic therapy is not about reliving the past or retelling the story. It’s about meeting you where you are, so you can gradually explore, process and integrate what you’ve been holding inside, while being seen and supported.
As your system begins to settle, you might notice a shift in your state or understanding, a moment of feeling more peaceful, alive and connected. When your nervous system finds a sense of safety, the old protective patterns underneath your symptoms and emotional reactions will start to soften and unwind.
The good news is: your body already knows how to heal. Sometimes, it just needs help to feel safe enough to move in that direction.
Learn more about our process and the method that underpins our work:
Meet Your Somatic Therapy Practitioners
We are Somatic Experiencing Practitioners whose work is informed by an understanding of trauma, nervous system and attachment, while each of us brings our own therapeutic focus and way of working.
We are also humans who have walked our own healing paths. Our professional expertise in body-based approaches and our lived experience allow us to hold space for our clients with compassion, competence and grounded presence.
We live in Asia and offer somatic therapy online to clients from all over the world.
Elena Jacinta, SEP
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, somatic therapist and the Founder of Back To Your Body, working with women.
Arpitha Shankar, SEP
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, couples therapist and trauma specialist working with individuals and couples.
What we work with
Online Somatic Therapy For Single Traumatic Events And Repeated Trauma
Our specialised trauma background equips us to work somatically with:
Shock Trauma
Surgeries, car accidents, natural disasters or physical abuse can leave your nervous system in a state of shock or hypervigilance. With support, your body can start to come out of this frozen or reactive state and rediscover a sense of safety.
Childhood Attachment and Developmental Trauma
Wounds from your childhood that resurface in your daily life or affect your current relationships. When there’s consistent space, attuned presence and guidance, there’s a possibility to repair these early emotional and relational ruptures and build a more secure connection with yourself and others.
Explore how somatic therapy supports childhood trauma recovery.
Learn about somatic healing of attachment & developmental trauma.
Generational, Collective & Systemic Trauma
Inherited family patterns and cultural and collective influences and challenges that go beyond your individual experience. Exploring these wider influences through your body can support a deeper understanding and an embodied sense of resilience and belonging.
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Additionally, within our online somatic therapy practice, Arpitha Shankar offers somatic couples therapy, while Elena Jacinta provides nervous system regulation therapy support for women.
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Let's make sure we are a good fit.
Who We Work With
Our clients are adults who are ready to take an active role in their healing and are looking for a body-oriented approach.
They see the value of intentional and collaborative therapy that invites them to grow and change, and would like to work towards their goals with a sense of direction.
If that’s you, we’d like that for you, too.
How We Work
We work collaboratively, respecting your goals and what is important to you, as well as what your body and your nervous system need.
Our somatic therapy process doesn’t follow one set protocol. It unfolds organically, while the pace and focus are adjusted as we go.
In our work, we pay attention to the relationship between your bodily experience, nervous system, emotions and the patterns that show up in your life. Dialogue is part of it, while the body remains an important source of information.
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If you would like to understand our somatic work better, these questions may help:
How long does somatic therapy take?
Somatic therapy is a gradual process that takes time. Trauma work, in particular, doesn’t follow a set timeline. For longstanding issues like childhood trauma, it may take a minimum of 3 months of weekly sessions to see first meaningful results. For minor issues or light dysregulation, the process can take 4-6 sessions.
It’s possible to feel better after just one session, but deeper change comes from repeated experiences that help your nervous system reorganise and build capacity for something new.
How is somatic therapy with you different from talk therapy?
Somatic therapy is often described as a “bottom-up” approach, where the body is the main vehicle for change and insight, whereas talk therapy is typically a “top-down” approach, where change happens primarily from reflection and understanding, i.e. from the mind.
For example, instead of describing or analysing a scary experience, in somatic therapy you may be invited to notice where the fear lives in your body, observe the sensation or an impulse that comes with it, get curious about what this fear reminds you of and what it means to you. This leads to an embodied exploration of the experience, a possible resolution or an emergence of a new insight.
Both somatic and talk therapies use dialogue. In somatic therapy, however, it is often intended to direct your focus and deepen your experience. Cognitive understanding is still important in somatic work, especially in the integration phase, but, normally, it doesn’t lead the whole process.
How is somatic therapy with you different from somatic movement or bodywork?
Somatic therapy is sometimes associated with movement practices or bodywork, but our approach is different.
Movement can be included in a session, but it would serve a specific purpose.
Voluntary movement exercises can be used to increase proprioceptive awareness, to downregulate or upregulate your nervous system, or to prepare your body for the exploration of defensive responses or developmental movement.
Involuntary movement may arise as we work with the autonomic nervous system and the spontaneous impulses, reactions and reflexes that emerge in response to your experience. We may follow an impulse to move toward, away, push, pull or grasp, and explore ‘what wanted to happen that didn’t get to happen’.
Touch is also an important aspect of our somatic therapy work. In an online format, a practitioner may invite you to place your own hands on certain areas of your body. The intention is to support coherence in the body and nervous system, or to facilitate a release of defensive bracing.
It is not massage or tissue manipulation, and it doesn’t involve energy work.
Will I spend the whole session talking about or remembering traumatic experiences?
No. You won’t spend the whole session describing what happened to you or revisiting your past trauma. You may wish to tell your story or part of it, but you don’t have to.
Somatic therapy is based on the understanding that your body holds the memory of what happened to you, and in our sessions, we work with this implicit bodily memory very gradually without making you relive the past.
In fact, in cases of high arousal and dysregulation, talking about traumatic experiences in detail or revisiting traumatic memories without stabilisation is not encouraged.
Do I need prior experience with body-based practices to begin this work?
It’s not a requirement, and you don’t need to have prior experience with somatic practices. What is more important is your openness to body-based exploration with support and guidance, and some ability to notice and stay with your experience in the body.
We often get asked: What if I don’t notice much in my body?
Many of our clients initially don’t sense much. We’d work with the subtle sensations that you are aware of without forcing anything. We may propose movement and sensory exercises to support your connection with your body. The ability to notice bodily cues tends to develop with time and practice.
How do I know if we're the right fit?
Assessing for the right fit involves many factors, including what you are seeking therapy for, the therapeutic approach, the practitioner’s expertise, and whether you feel safe, seen and understood by the practitioner you work with.
This website and our intake process are designed to help establish whether we’re a good fit, step by step.
Firstly, on these pages, you can find a lot of information on how we work and what we work with. We encourage you to learn more about us as somatic practitioners to get to know our backgrounds, specialities and unique approaches.
Additionally, the new client application form below helps us to understand whether our expertise matches your needs and advise accordingly.
And finally, the first session gives a taste of what it may look (and feel) like if we start working together.
If this resonates, you are welcome to take the next step below.
Interested In Trying Somatic Therapy Online?
Here’s how to get started
The 3-Step Process:
1. New Client Application Form
Fill out the application form below, and if we seem like a good fit, you’ll receive a booking link to schedule and pay for your first short session*.
2. First Short Session
Schedule and attend your first 30-minute intake session (or 60-minute for couples).
Your first session is intended as an intake. It gives us an opportunity to meet, clarify your goals, answer your questions and for you to experience our approach.
In this session, you will get a taste of how we work somatically, so you can get a sense of whether it feels right to move forward together.
Since our first session has an experiential part, please make sure you attend it from a comfortable private space with your camera on.
3. Ongoing 1:1 Sessions & Integration
If we continue, we’ll meet for online somatic therapy sessions on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, to explore your patterns, deepen your relationship with your body, support your nervous system, and integrate this into your daily life.
*For information about pricing & availability, please refer to our FAQ section.
Ready to begin?
When you feel ready, you can fill out the new client application form below, and we will be in touch shortly.