Restoring safety, balance and connection
My Services
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-based approach to healing trauma and stress. Unlike approaches that focus solely on thoughts or memories, SE works with the body’s natural ability to regulate and release tension. Trauma and chronic stress can become “stuck” in the nervous system, leading to patterns of overwhelm, hypervigilance, or dissociation. SE gently supports the nervous system to complete these interrupted responses, helping restore a natural sense of safety, balance, and resilience. This process allows people to feel more grounded, connected, and at ease in their daily lives.
This approach was developed by Peter Levine, whose pioneering work highlighted how trauma is physiologically held in the body. By learning to track subtle sensations, movements, and shifts in the body, individuals can support the completion of incomplete defensive responses such as gestures, movements, unspoken words, or sounds, that were never fully expressed during the original event. As Levine writes, “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the aftermath of what happened.” Through SE, the body can gradually release these held experiences, fostering healing, resilience, and a renewed sense of aliveness.
SE is valuable in supporting recovery from a wide range of experiences, including early adversity, abuse and neglect, blocked grief, medical and surgical trauma, car accidents, chronic fatigue and related syndromes, long Covid, generalised anxiety, and depression.
Sensory Attachment Intervention (SAI) is designed to support children and families, particularly those with experiences of adoption, fostering, early trauma, or family stress. This approach uses carefully designed sensory-based activities to build trust, safety, and co-regulation between caregiver and child. Through these activities, children learn to manage arousal, develop self-soothing strategies, and strengthen their capacity for connection, while caregivers gain skills to support their own regulation and model safe, attuned responses.
By creating a predictable, nurturing environment and incorporating routines of pleasurable, organizing sensory experiences, SAI helps families strengthen secure attachment, reduce stress, and foster shared joy. Assessment is a key part of the process, providing insight into each child’s attachment patterns and sensory processing profile, as well as understanding the parent’s unique regulatory style. This understanding supports tailored strategies to respond to triggers, repair ruptures, and build resilience.
SAI also uses tools like video feedback to highlight what is working well, celebrate shared moments of connection, and reinforce learning for both child and parent. In this way, SAI nurtures stronger relationships, promotes emotional resilience, and provides practical, enjoyable ways for families to connect and communicate in everyday life.
Assessment and intervention packages can be tailored to suit individual needs of each family.
Assessments available:
Developmental assessments including gross motor, fine motor and visual motor skills
Sensory processing skills
Attachment and emotional strategies
Parent and child interaction: Marschak Interaction Method (MIMs)
Meaning of the Child Parent Interview (MotC)
NeuroAffective Touch (NAT) combines gentle, respectful touch with deep attunement and listening. Early relational wounds or experiences where our need for safety, care, or connection was not fully met, can become “held” in the body. NAT helps release these patterns, restoring a sense of safety, connection, and belonging. It supports emotional regulation, eases feelings of isolation, and addresses attachment wounds that words alone may not reach.
For many people with early trauma or complex trauma, there can be an internal conflict: a deep longing for connection, yet a fear of closeness because early relationships were experienced as unsafe. NAT offers a safe, gentle way to explore this tension. By working directly with the body and nervous system, it helps uncouple this “bind,” allowing individuals to feel safer in relationships and in themselves.
Through this approach, people gradually strengthen their ability to sense and respond to their own emotions and bodily signals. NAT fosters self-awareness, resilience, and a renewed capacity for authentic connection, both with oneself and with others. It provides a supportive space where healing can happen at the pace the body and mind are ready for, helping people move from patterns of tension or hypervigilance toward a greater sense of ease, presence, and emotional freedom.
Key features of NAT:
Offers the missing non-verbal experiences that many of us did not receive in early life.
Invites a collaborative relationship between your body, heart, and mind.
Uses hands-on support and/or warm, malleable pillows to provide nurturing, supportive contact.
About Jane Reeves
I’m a Somatic Therapist who is passionate about helping people find safety and connection within themselves and in their relationships. My work is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and respect for each person’s journey, drawing on many years of experience in trauma, attachment, and family work.
