Hey, I’m Jessica
somatic therapist, slow living advocate
I guide you through a neuroscience-informed, compassion-led process to identity integration and nervous system regulation - so you can stop overanalysing and start embodying the version of you that’s been waiting beneath the surface: steady, clear, and deeply connected to who you really are.
You’ve done the mindset work. You’ve talked it out. You have self-awareness. You know your patterns. You might even understand your trauma responses. Yet insight alone hasn’t been enough to change them.
You still find yourself overthinking, shrinking, over-performing, staying in control…not because you want to, but because it feels automatic.
This isn’t a matter of willpower, it’s your nervous system, still wired for survival.
True transformation doesn’t come from thinking your way out of it.
It comes from working with your nervous system, not against it.
My method aligns your body’s wisdom, your mind’s clarity, and your true self, so you’re not just doing the work… you’re living the shift.
MY PHILOSOPHY
Words won’t shift what the body still holds.
After years immersed in trauma-informed modalities: nervous system science, somatic experience, depth work, and Compassionate Inquiry, one thing is clear: most of the patterns we struggle with aren’t flaws in our mindset, they’re adaptations.
We develop these patterns for a reason.
To stay safe. To stay connected. To stay in control in environments that didn’t allow for the full truth of who we are.
This means real healing isn’t about overriding or fixing.
It’s about understanding, integrating, and building the capacity to meet the survival self with care, and gently guide the system back into regulation, without forcing or bypassing the body’s intelligence.
The work I guide is rooted in creating internal safety, as well as emotional awareness.
Below are the core principles that shape this work.
Compassionate Inquiry
The most lasting change starts with curiosity, not critique.
This approach isn’t about fixing your behaviour. It’s about gently tracing it back to its roots, with compassion.
When we become genuinely curious, why did I learn to show up this way? What was I protecting? What did I need?
We create the space to move from self-blame to self-understanding.
And when we stop pathologising our patterns and start honouring their origins, we begin to see the intelligence beneath them.
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Healing happens in connection, inside and out.
We are wired to co-regulate. Our nervous systems learn what safety feels like in the presence of another.
When that early connection is inconsistent or misattuned, our internal wiring can reflect that leaving us hyper-independent, chronically over-attuned to others, or disconnected from our own needs.
Repairing that wiring isn’t a solo job. That’s why this work focuses on relational safety, both in how I hold space and in how we rebuild your internal sense of self.
When you feel safe with yourself, you stop outsourcing your worth or abandoning your needs. You start responding from your true self, not your survival self.
Parts Work
You’re not too much. You’re made of much.
Inside every one of us lives a system of parts - protectors, performers, critics, inner children, and more. These parts develop in response to life, often stepping in to protect us when we feel unsafe or unheard.
Parts work isn’t about erasing or changing these parts. It’s about understanding them, recognising what they’re trying to do for us, and giving them the attention they’ve longed for.
When we stop seeing these parts as flaws and start treating them with compassion, they soften. They integrate. And you can step into your whole, authentic self.
The goal isn’t to get rid of these parts, it’s to help them find their right place, so your true self can lead.
Polyvagal Theory
Your reactions make sense when you understand your system.
Your nervous system has one job: keep you alive. And it does that job brilliantly. When it perceives threat, whether physical, emotional or relational, it moves into protection: fight, flight, freeze, or shut down.
The issue isn’t that you’re overreacting. The issue is your system has learned to stay prepared.
When we work with your autonomic responses instead of pushing against them, we begin to reshape the pathways that tell your body, “I’m not safe.”
Regulation isn’t about being calm all the time. It’s about having choice and restoring flexibility to your system.
Somatic Experience
Trauma lives in the body - and it needs to be processed with it.
Trauma doesn’t just disappear, it stays in the body. And when the body can’t process it fully in the moment, it holds on, often showing up as tension, anxiety, irritability, or disconnection.
Somatic work offers a way in. It helps us feel what was too much to feel back then, at a pace the nervous system can tolerate now.
The somatic approach isn’t about reliving past experiences; it’s about completing unfinished survival responses so your nervous system can rest, allowing you to feel more at ease in your body.
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