About
I'm a Brisbane-based, trauma-informed PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor and Somatic Psychotherapist, practising in West End and Milton. I work with the connections between the body, emotions, nervous system and relationships — with trauma, attachment wounds and the patterns that shape a life — because trauma is held and lived in the body and the nervous system, not only in the story we tell about it.
I trained in Psychology in Mexico, and my path into somatic work began during my master's in Gestalt therapy. What I learned there changed how I sit with people: when we stop reaching for an immediate explanation and simply pay attention to what is happening — a tear, a clenched fist, a breath that changes — the answer is very often already inside the person.
Later I began working with trauma, and with much more complex histories, and I found the thing that reshaped me as a therapist: not everyone can simply connect with their body. For someone who learned that feeling is dangerous, connecting with the body can be overwhelming. Sometimes disconnecting was precisely the way they found to survive.
So I understood that I needed other ways of accompanying people. Not to make anyone feel, but to help them build, little by little, enough safety and enough resilience to inhabit their own body again. That is what drew me further and further into somatic work, and why I kept training: Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Compassionate Inquiry, Gestalt, EFT and IFS.
Because I have seen that when someone starts reconnecting with their body, they start reconnecting with themselves too: with their emotions, their needs, their limits, their intuition, their own wisdom. I am convinced now that we cannot separate the mind from the body. We are not a mind that has a body. We are a whole.
Somatic therapy is not a collection of body exercises to help you relax, and it is not a way of feeling good all the time. It is a way inward. Here is what that means in the room.
Somatic therapy is not a quick fix or a band-aid, it doesn't only manage symptoms, and it isn't a set of body exercises to help you relax. It's a trauma-informed way of developing a deeper awareness of the connection between your body, your emotions, your nervous system, your thoughts and the way you relate.
We explore what is happening for you in the present moment: physical sensations, emotions, nervous-system responses, and patterns that formed in answer to stress or trauma. Bringing awareness to them is what starts to give you choice about them.
And we don't push for change or ask you to move faster than your nervous system is ready for. Over time this kind of work builds the capacity to stay present with yourself — which is where regulation, connection and real change come from.
The work can also support embodiment: bringing what you understand into how you feel, act and relate. Together we explore how authenticity, intuition and your own values can guide meaningful choices.
Spanish is my first language, and I offer full sessions in it. This matters more than it might sound: for many people the earliest memories are stored in the language they were formed in, and translating them into a second language flattens something. If Spanish is yours, we can work in it from the first session.
You don't need to know any of these to work with me: I bring them, you don't have to choose between them. But if you like knowing what's informing the room, here they are.
I trained in Psychology in Mexico and hold a Bachelor's degree in it, I hold a Master of Gestalt Therapy, and I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Psychotherapist with PACFA, the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, which means I work under its code of ethics and complete ongoing supervision and professional development. I'm not a registered psychologist in Australia, so Medicare rebates don't apply. Private health extras and WorkCover often do.
What actually happens in a first somatic therapy session
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I think that's one of the deepest changes therapy can bring: to stop abandoning yourself, and to learn, finally, to be on your own side.
