~Somatic Psychotherapist~
Chelsea is a Somatic Psychotherapist who works to co-create a space of safety, compassion and curiosity; supporting clients to explore and transform from their unique experiences and challenges.
Bridging Integrative and Somatic Therapies allows her to work collaboratively, bringing the felt sense of the body into the heart of therapy. This allows clients to deepen their self-awareness while gently unravelling and resolving the core traumas and imprints that are stored within their body and nervous system. Working on this level can have a transformative and lasting impact on their experience of self, as they come into felt contact with who they are beneath the many imprints, stories and beliefs.
Chelsea’s approach is deeply person-centred; acknowledging the individual’s inherent knowing and capacity for growth. She supports clients to come into more compassion for self; allowing existing challenges, behaviours and patterns to find their healthiest expression from a place of ease and non-resistance. From this place, it is possible to experience more vitality and clarity, a greater capacity for connection within relationships and a deeper sense of purpose and belonging.
Chelsea tailors each session to meet the presenting concerns, needs and goals of the individual; dynamically drawing upon her training in Psychology (B.A), Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (M.A), Somatic Psychotherapy (Dip. Internal Tracking) and Compassionate Inquiry (Cert. Gabor Mate). Her diversity of training allows for body-based processes to work in conjunction with methods such as Internal Family Systems and Attachment-based Therapy.
Chelsea has a deep understanding and interest in working with major life events and transitions, relationship challenges, grief, loss and death, personal and familial crises, chronic pain and psychosomatic symptoms, emotional regulation, identity & esteem challenges, anxiety, depression, eco/existential/spiritual concerns, attachment and developmental issues.
She also works with those seeking more meaning, purpose and creativity and offers in-depth mindfulness and embodiment tools to empower people with resources to navigate life in more ease and resilience.
Her personal history of recovering from a major spinal accident has deepened her passion for somatic-based psychotherapy; as the inner resources it provided were paramount to her navigation of this time and her returning to a life of vitality, mobility and service.
With a background in facilitating music therapy, voice work, deep ecology and wilderness rites of passage, and a devotion to eastern philosophy and practice; Chelsea recognises how our mental, emotional and physical wellbeing is not isolated from our social, ecological, spiritual and creative selves and the context within which we exist. If relevant for the individual, she can also support the cultivation of a personal practice or creative outlet that is fulfilling and resourcing.
Chelsea’s fee is $160 for a 50 minute session.
