Somatic Psychotherapy & the Mind-Body Connection
Melbourne & Online
You’ve done the talking (perhaps for years) but something still feels stuck in your mind and your body. Perhaps you’re holding tension or unease that won’t shift, or a sense that your emotions aren’t fully processed.
If you’ve been told you’re “too self‑aware” for therapy to help, or you’ve hit a wall in talk therapy, somatic psychotherapy could be the next step.
Somatic counselling can help you bridge the gap between your thoughts, your emotions, and your physical sensations, so you can truly feel what you think and think about what you feel. It’s about listening inward, noticing how your nervous system responds to life, and learning to respond with nervous system flexibility, presence, and self‑trust.
Somatic Psychotherapy with Jackie offers a trauma‑informed, body‑based approach that goes beyond words. It’s for people who are curious about embodied healing, and for those who know their mind well, and are ready to reconnect with their body’s wisdom.
How a Somatic Therapist Can Help
Sometimes our bodies hold stories and memories that the mind can’t fully explain.
You might notice:
Chronic tension in your shoulders, neck or jaw
A racing heart or shallow breath when you think of certain memories
Feeling “checked out” from your body or emotions
Difficulty settling after stress, as if you’re always “on alert”
Emotions that feel overwhelming the moment they arise
Patterns of holding or bracing in relationships and daily life
Being told you’re “too self‑aware” for more traditional therapy
The desire to feel at home in your body again
Somatic therapy helps you understand what your body is communicating, so you can release what no longer serves you and restore your natural capacity for calm, resilience, and connection.
In sessions, Jackie combines her extensive training in somatic psychotherapy with deep trauma‑informed care to:
Listen to your body’s signals: noticing breath, posture, and sensation.
Build nervous system safety: using gentle movement and grounding techniques.
Release trapped energy: through informed, respectful interventions.
Integrate mind and body insights: so emotional shifts feel embodied, not just intellectual.
Support therapy‑experienced clients: offering new pathways when talk alone isn’t enough.
Cultivate embodied presence: developing the capacity to stay present with whatever arises and flexibly move between different nervous system states (e.g. from flight, flight, freeze or fawn, back into sustainable physiology).
Somatic therapy clients often say they feel seen in a new way: not just in their thoughts, but in their felt experience of life, and that’s where profound, lasting change happens.
How Jackie Can Support You
Why Somatic Psychotherapy Helps
At Morrow Endeavour Counselling and Psychotherapy, Somatic Psychotherapy is offered exclusively by Jackie, ensuring you have access to her specialised expertise. We hold every session in a trauma‑informed, non‑pathologising, and culturally responsive space, so you can explore at your own pace with compassion and care.
If you’ve ever wondered why your body still holds what your mind has understood, this work is for you. Somatic therapy can help you reclaim a sense of safety, presence, and agency, finally bridging the gap between intellectual insight and true embodiment.