Abi Newman

“The body-unconscious is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our soul and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.” — D. H. Lawrence

I am a fierce believer in people, I know that we all have the potential to meet and integrate our innate power and wisdom, I also know and understand that being human and being in a body can be a challenging experience. I have a compassionate curious nature with a trauma-informed approach to therapeutic work.

Embodied therapy and Somatic parts work

Sessions provide a healing space for you to move into, move with and move through what has been and continues to be held in body, mind and heart. This space will create a chance for you to enter into your inner world, a world where our bodies and sensations offer doorways into meeting with our parts. Parts of us that may have been previously unknown, misunderstood, pathologized, criticised or exiled. Parts can show up in many ways, through body responses, posture, breath, thought, behaviours and held unconscious beliefs, to name just a few.

I work holistically, holding the intention to acknowledge all parts, being with body, mind and heart in a compassionate and welcoming way.

I hold a space for you to explore the map of who you are, giving voice, movement and sound to your emotional, physical and energetic body, allowing a process between what was, what is and what will be. I pay deep respect to finding safety and stabilisation throughout the process, honouring co-regulation and resourcing in sessions.

The body can hold places of pain, joy, unspoken truth and so much more. Our bodies carry within them the legacy of our life experiences; our attachments, our traumas, our abandonment, our belonging and our becoming.

By working with different states that the bodymind enters into you can become aware of protective patterns, functions of the shapes we take and deeply written survival instincts, meeting these parts and welcoming them into the space can create an invitation towards wholeness and integration.

By finding places in the body that can provide an anchor into more safety and befriending these places, you not only have a valuable resource, you can find sustainable change.

Acknowledging the stories and language of your body can offer another dimension to therapeutic work and creates a space to explore the difficulties in your life that do not seem to move or change simply by talking about them.

I will be with you to witness, support, guide and offer my curiosity and openness to your process. I work in a collaborative intuitive way, with wholehearted belief in your power and wisdom. I may use a frame drum or music in session should it feel supportive for you in your process.

EMDR sessions

EMDR can be woven into ongoing Embodied sessions where it feels supportive, I also offer EMDR for single traumatic events that have happened in your life. EMDR can be online or face to face. Bilateral stimulation may be part of an integrated process rather than a specific EMDR structure.

I feel driven and passionate about holding a therapeutic healing space for people to find movement in their bodies and deeper connection with their hearts.

For more detailed information about sessions please head across to my website.

Embodied Therapy

Free 20 minute Zoom Discovery call

£65 1 hour session

£80 1 hour 15 minute session

£95 1 hour 30 minute session

ALL CONCESSION SESSIONS ARE CURRENTLY TAKEN.