MINDFUL TOUCH, PROFOUND OUTCOMES
Somatic Massage
If you have tried many different types of talking therapies and feel something is lacking to complete your healing work. If you are at the start of your healing journey and not sure where to begin. If you are curious about a body based approach to healing.
This therapy synthesises the latest research and neuroscience with ancient healing traditions – healing through the non verbal medium of safe, consensual, informed touch which works at the source of all trauma and stress – to regulate your dysregulated nervous system.
If you are still seeking a therapist who really hears you, tends to you, validates you. A session which from start to finish, feels professional, safe, and affords you an inspiring and uplifting experience. A treatment which addresses your issues at source, rather than offers temporary relief from your legacy and enduring symptoms of trauma and chronic stress, somatic massage with me may be the right therapy for you.
Through your somatic massage sessions, I take a holistic approach to your healing by addressing all impacts of stress and trauma – physical, mental, emotional, energetic, spiritual
I help you reconnect with your body, safely release your trauma and stress legacies, and create inner balance and resilience. My goal is to support you on your journey towards natural healing, resolution and growth, honouring your unique experiences and empowering you to move forward with strength and resilience.
Trauma is a natural reaction to experiences that feel threatening, dangerous, or beyond our ability to cope. Issues can arise when we experience symptoms from our body and mind becoming retriggered over and over again long after the trauma event has passed. It is the body/mind reaction to the trauma event that becomes the issue manifesting in continuing and debilitating symptoms and conditions and ways of being, thinking and feeling that can hold us back in our life
As such trauma impacts each of us uniquely with a wide range of manifesting symptoms affecting us in every single way, from our very core and sense of self to how we show up in the world and what choices we make in life.
This touch therapy takes into account and supports you to recognise your internal and external states that may no longer be serving you. It supports you to identify and establish ways of being and relating to yourself and your life and facilitates transformational shifts and life enhancing changes on your healing journey.
Your body can heal itself in the right conditions and this treatment aims to establish the right conditions for your optimum outcomes.
Why choose Somatic Massage?
Do you experience chronic pain or tension in your body and/or suffer from frequent or enduring illness or health conditions with no clear diagnosis or reason for these?
Are you dealing with stress, anxiety, depression or other emotional conditions that you feel manifest physically in your body?
Did you know poor posture or musculoskeletal imbalances can be a result of emotional issues and indeed contribute to emotional issues?
Have you experienced trauma in your past and/or are dealing with chronic stress in your life at present, and realising the emotional, mental, physical, energetic and spiritual impacts on you?
Have you tried other forms of therapy or treatments for your physical or emotional issues with limited success?
Are you looking for an embodied, holistic approach to support your good health and wellness that addresses all aspects of you - your physical, mental and emotional, energetic and spiritual well-being?
Are you open to exploring the mindbody connection and how it impacts your overall health and wellness? Often feeling stuck in your head and/or disconnected from your body, and lacking self compassion and poor self image? Do you have difficulty relaxing or unwinding, even when you have time for and commit to self-care?
Are you interested in exploring techniques that can help you connect more deeply with your body in order to feel that inner certitude and trust in yourself.
Are you seeking harmony within and alignment between your mind and body, so that you can feel at one with yourself rather than conflicted, at ease rather than ill at ease or even dealing with dis-ease?
There are so many benefits to Somatic Massage
Somatic Massage offers ‘more than just a massage’ - we will undertake a thorough consultation to ensure a clear understanding of your needs for your treatment. Taking into account a brief history, discussion of presenting symptoms and needs, stress factors (these may be physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, relational, energy related) and lifestyle (job, home, commitments) as well as the basics – sleep, hydration, nutrition, exercise, relaxation, fun, joy, support in your life.
Sessions can raise your awareness of and gain a sense of your own body, its patterns and limitations, often physical though connected to mental limitations and emotions we may not wish to feel or feel too much. You may notice tension and tightness, feel pain you were not previously aware of, realise how you have holding patterns or restrictions. Sessions can help you identify and release these symptoms of anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and stress that may no longer serve you, and instead bring about welcome balance and an inner faith.
Every session will be different, in response to your needs each time. I meet you where you are at on each occasion, allowing you to be fully present with yourself and to meet yourself fully, perhaps for the first time in a while, if ever. I am honoured to be a witness, to hold space for you and to validate you fully as you are.
There is time following your somatic massage to fully feel, absorb and integrate your session. Noticing any different feelings, sensations, inner experiences, thoughts, and how you now feel towards your body and whether that feels any different to when you arrived.
A somatic massage session is all encompassing, aiming to both alleviate the symptoms as well as assess and identify and resolve the underlying causes, providing you with a powerful and empowering therapeutic experience.
- Increased body awareness and greater connection between your mind and body offers a wide range of positive outcomes
- Feel connected again – to yourself, others, life, your world. Feel at peace and at one with yourself, and in flow with your life
- Learn self compassion - to advocate for yourself and become your best friend; to generate a virtuous circle of self love which will enhance your self worth, self esteem and confidence
- Gain clarity on your true vision for yourself, a clearer perspective with focus and direction about your innate self, your life and your values, purpose and mission for your life
- Grow confidence in yourself as you learn to know and trust your body, respond timely to your needs and feel at home within yourself – putting yourself as the expert and authority of yourself over others as you anchor in and feel safe within yourself
- Feel your resilience grow as your symptoms dissolve. This inner strength supports better internal boundaries, enabling you to show up less externally boundaried and protective and instead with more freedom, agency and courage
- Enjoy your rising energy. As you become liberated from the ill effects and symptoms of past traumas and stress, watch how your energy expands and how this can open you up to curiosity, creativity, vision
- Notice how stress free your life becomes – as you learn to soothe, support and respond to your own needs, reducing your internal stresses, so your external world will reflect your inner states
- Experience a real felt sense of safety and how this radiates out in your world; as you hold space for yourself increasingly, witness and validate your internal reality, so your inner trust sets the tone for trust in your life choices and experiences
- Relish in physical wellbeing. Knowing your body and working in alignment with it – nourishing and nurturing it - supports pain management, improved posture, injury prevention and greater physical performance
- Emancipate your challenging emotions and minimise your mental anguishes. Feel how you are able to understand your mind and emotions better and so regulate your moods and internal states, encouraging your self compassion, reducing your stress and increasing your self confidence
- Feel alive to your present and future self as you become your greatest ally and trustworthy best friend
- Cultivate fulfilling and healthy relationships, first and foremost with yourself so that you show up authentically as yourself and attract authentic and meaningful relationships with others
- Arrive at such a place of safety within your body promoting the optimum state for releasing your trauma and stress, to explore challenging thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions. It is crucial to release these in a managed and manageable manner, in the spirit of self compassion, to keep you safe on your healing journey
- Break the cycle of unconscious maladaptive coping strategies be they physical, mental, emotional or energetic, that continue to keep your symptoms of trauma and stress locked in and continuing, seemingly uncontrolled
- Liberate yourself from the legacy of your traumas and stress, with body awareness to generate the right environment to cultivate your new life and learn the tools to dissolve old patterns of being, feeling, thinking, moving, manifesting
- Find your freedom from the negative effects of stress and trauma, anxiety, grief, depression and other emotional conditions on the body, as you learn how to release suppressed feelings and memories and to integrate your traumas and stresses in a safe and healthy way
- Free your body from holding patterns and postures caused by trauma and stress that create tightness, tension, restriction, limited range of movement, constrictions and symptoms beyond including exhaustion
- Embarking upon your healing journey is the greatest gift you can give yourself. Healing allows you to break the cycle of trauma and stress, creating a healthier future for yourself and your loved ones. Healing allows you to unlock your full potential and live a life filled with joy, purpose, and meaning.
What others say
MIRACLE WORKER... My first amazing and transformational Trauma session... the best nights sleep .. I put my trust in Jan and the process. I wish I had met Jan sooner.
Lynne S, LS Skinology
THANK YOU FOR LIGHTING MY WAY...I've seen other counsellors and even top psychiatrists before and they're nowhere near as good as you.
Hannah Hunter-Lynch
IN MY EXPERIENCE THIS MIND-BODY WORK HAS BEEN MORE DEEPLY HEALING THAN TRADITIONAL TALKING THERAPY......it has worked wonders. .. after each session I've felt lighter, calmer and more present.
Joanne B
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I am delighted to have been awarded for both this year 2024, and last year -
Best Stress and Trauma Resolution Provider in the North West of England.
for recognition of my services for mental health by the Global Health & Pharma publication.
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I am based in Standish near Wigan, WN6