Trauma-informed Counselling
What is Trauma-informed Counselling?
Trauma-informed somatic counselling is a gentle, body-based approach to healing that recognises trauma isn’t just something we think about, it’s something the body holds onto. Instead of only talking through experiences, this work focuses on helping you tune into your physical sensations, your nervous system, and the subtle signals your body is constantly giving you. It’s trauma-informed, which means it moves at your pace, prioritises safety, and never forces you to relive anything you’re not ready for. Through this approach, you begin to understand your patterns, regulate your responses, and slowly release what’s been stored in the body, allowing you to feel more grounded, present, and in control.
Trauma isn’t just a psychological experience, it’s physiological. When we go through something overwhelming, especially if we don’t have the support or capacity to process it at the time, the nervous system holds onto that experience. The body essentially stays prepared for the threat, even when it’s no longer there.
This is linked to how the brain and body respond to stress. The amygdala, which detects danger, becomes more sensitive, while the prefrontal cortex (responsible for logic and reasoning) can become less active in moments of perceived threat. At the same time, the autonomic nervous system shifts into protective states like fight, flight, freeze or shutdown. If these responses aren’t completed or resolved, the energy of that experience can stay stored in the body.
You might notice this as tension, shallow breathing, gut issues, fatigue, or emotional reactivity that feels bigger than the situation in front of you. This is why people often say, “I know I’m safe, but my body doesn’t feel it.” The body is responding based on past experiences, not just present reality.
Research in areas like polyvagal theory and somatic psychology shows that by working with the body, through breath, movement, and awareness we can help the nervous system come out of those protective states. Over time, this allows the body to feel safe again, rather than just thinking it.
Work with me
If you’re reading this and something inside you feels a gentle pull and you have a desire to live beyond the patterns you’ve been living in, then this work might be your invitation to begin again.
The Embodied Awareness Programme
A Six-Week Nervous System Reset for the person who is done living in survival mode
For the person who is tired of simply getting through life and is ready to understand why they feel, think and respond the way they do.
Embodied Awareness is a deeply supportive 6-week experience that blends counselling, nervous system education, somatic practices and self-exploration to help you understand yourself on a deeper level.
Together, we’ll explore the patterns, beliefs and emotional responses that may be keeping you feeling stuck. You’ll begin to understand where they come from, how they show up in your everyday life and, most importantly, how to start changing them.
This is for you if you’re feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, disconnected from yourself or constantly falling back into the same cycles, despite knowing you want things to be different.
Because understanding yourself is one thing. Learning how to feel and respond differently is where real change begins.
Over six weeks, we’ll work towards helping you feel more grounded, emotionally resilient and connected to yourself, with practical tools and a deeper understanding of what you need to move through life with greater confidence, clarity and self-trust.
What’s included
6 × 75 minute 1:1 counselling sessions online Trauma-informed counselling and emotional support
Understanding your nervous system and stress responses
Exploring the origins of recurring emotional and behavioural patterns
Self-enquiry, reflection and shadow work prompts
Guided EFT/tapping exercises where appropriate
Breathwork, embodiment and practical regulation tools
Developing greater emotional awareness, self-compassion and trust in yourself
Gentle accountability and compassionate guidance throughout
This is an opportunity to begin making sense of yourself, with practical tools and greater awareness to take into everyday life.
Investment
£450 (full payment)
or
£150 x 3
(1st payment due before we start and the subsequent 2 payments to be staggered 4 weeks apart)
Scheduling: If you’d like a 20 minute call ahead of taking the leap to go through any questions you may have or simply to see if I am the right fit for you then you can schedule this on my booking page below (if on your mobile phone and to the left if you are on a laptop)
The REBIRTH
A Deep Transformational Experience
For the person ready to move beyond survival, break free from old patterns and reconnect with who they truly are.
Where Embodied Awareness builds understanding of your patterns, The REBIRTH offers the time and space to explore them on a much deeper level.
Blending trauma-informed counselling, nervous system work, emotional processing and deep self-enquiry, this intimate, personalised experience supports you in working through the experiences and beliefs that have shaped you.
A deeper commitment to yourself, your healing and the life you want to experience.
Because this work is intimate, trauma informed and tailored specifically to you, spaces are intentionally limited to ensure every client receives the depth of support they deserve.
What’s included
12 x 75 minute 1:1 sessions (online)
What we'll explore together:
Extended trauma-informed counselling and emotional processing at a pace that feels manageable
Exploring deeply rooted patterns, protective responses and limiting beliefs
Understanding how past experiences may influence your present relationships, emotions and behaviours
Nervous system education and somatic awareness
Breathwork, embodiment and personalised regulation practices
Guided EFT/tapping and bilateral techniques where appropriate and within the scope of my training
Deeper self-enquiry, reflection and shadow work prompts
Exploring boundaries, self-worth, emotional needs and your relationship with yourself
Personalised practices and reflections between sessions to support integration
Ongoing review of your progress, needs and intentions throughout our work
A compassionate, non-judgemental space to explore the parts of yourself you've perhaps never felt able to shareInvestment
Investment
£995 (Full payment)
or
£250 × 4
(1st payment due before we start and the subsequent 2 payments to be staggered 4 weeks apart)
The Regulated Mum club
A 4 week programme for mums and mums to be who want a safe and gentle space to break old patterns, raise calmer children and feel like the grounded, present parent they have always imagined they’d be.
The truth is, you don’t need more baby tips, you need more capacity and a deeper understanding of yourself and who you are and that’s exactly what this programme will give you.
YOU DON’T BECOME A CALM, GENTLE PARENT BECAUSE YOU READ THE RIGHT BOOKS OR MEMORISED THE RIGHT SCRIPTS.
You become a calm, gentle parent when your nervous system finally feels safe enough to show up the way your heart has always wanted to.
Motherhood doesn’t magically give you more patience. It exposes the parts of you that never had any space, safety or support AND that is why the work matters SO much.
Not because you are broken but because you deserve to experience motherhood from a place of capacity, not survival.
Your child doesn’t need a perfect mother, they need a mother whose body isn’t constantly bracing for impact, a mother who can take a breath before reacting. A mother who understands her own triggers so that she doesn’t pass them forward.
THIS IS THE WORK THAT TRANSFORMS MOTHERHOOD FROM FEELING LIKE A CONSTANT BATTLE…INTO FEELING LIKE THE NURTURING, CONNECTED, CALM EXPERIENCE YOU DREAMED IT WOULD BE.
This work is just as important as the NCT or Hypnobirthing class you most likely signed up to, why? Because it equips you for life after the delivery room.
What’s included
A supportive space for mums who want to feel calmer, less overwhelmed and more connected to themselves and their children. Together, we'll explore what's happening beneath your triggers, reactions and the emotional demands of motherhood, with practical tools to support you in everyday life.
4 × 90-minute online sessions
Simple, relatable nervous system education
Understanding mum rage, overstimulation and emotional triggers
Practical somatic, breathwork and grounding techniques
Co-regulation tools for you and your child
Support navigating tantrums, boundaries and big emotions
Understanding attachment and emotional safety
Personalised reflections and practices between sessions
A compassionate, judgement-free space to feel heard and supported
Course Investment
£275 for your 4 week course
or 2 x £140
How I got here. My Story. My Purpose.
For a long time, I was living in a way that just didn’t make me happy. On the surface, things looked great-I owned my own home, had a good job, a great social life, and a solid family. But inside, I was struggling.My anxiety at times could be crippling, and I had no idea how to regulate my emotions or meet my own needs. I was living unconsciously, numbing what I felt with things that never really helped, repeating the same patterns no matter how much I wanted to change. It often felt like I was walking through life blindfolded, completely disconnected from who I truly was.
Not long before I met my husband, something in me started to shift. I began to question the way I was living and slowly started reconnecting to myself without really understanding that that is what I was doing-I started to find my way back to the version of me I’d lost along the way and I started to look at the survival habits I had subconsciously adopted. It wasn’t an overnight change, but it was the beginning of me finding my way back home to myself.
Then came motherhood-my rebirth. It cracked me wide open in every possible way. It showed me my wounds and my strength, my conditioning and my capacity for love. It was the turning point that pulled me deeper into healing, unlearning, questioning the norms, self-discovery, and ultimately, back to my own intuition.
The truth is, we’ve always known. Deep down, we all carry an inner wisdom, a sense of what’s right for us, what feels aligned, and what doesn’t. But over time, we become disconnected from it. We’re deeply conditioned by society to live from the outside in, to meet the expectations others, to perform, to fit in, to please. In doing so, we forget how to trust ourselves.
I’ve always been a bit of a psychology geek. For as long as I can remember - but it wasn’t until I started to truly reconnect with myself and my purpose that I realised how naturally this work comes to me. I decided to take what felt like a nudge from the universe to step into my calling of helping others through their struggles and began my studies to retrain as a counsellor.
After years of working through my own “stuff” in talking therapies, I later became fascinated by the deeper connection between the body and the mind and how the two can’t be separated. I’ve always found it barbaric that Western approaches so often treat people from the top down, focusing on thoughts and behaviour while ignoring the somatically stored trauma that lives in our bodies. That realisation led me to train as a trauma-informed counsellor, because true healing, I believe, can only happen when we address the body, the nervous system, and the stories we’ve carried within us for too long.
You don’t have to stay stuck here. I didn’t.
Love Nancy x
