👋🏽 I’m Sheetal Mistry.
I help women recover from anxiety, stress / burnout and overwhelm by clearing stored emotions & patterns that drive their reactions by working at the root — through the body’s wisdom, not the mind.
My work combines somatic therapy, parts work, timeline work, and energy-based healing to release trauma and survival patterns stored in the nervous system and the body.
Somatic therapy is not surface level work where the results only last temporarily and definitely not about coping or managing symptoms. Somatic work creates root level lasting transformation that sticks. It’s about clearing what your body has been carrying so you can finally feel safe, calm, and whole again.
This is for women who are tired of managing symptoms and are ready to understand, process, and gently release what their body has been carrying.
By safely processing the experiences, emotions, and survival patterns your body has been holding, you create space for lasting transformation, deeper clarity, and a renewed sense of peace, self respect and connection to yourself
Former Healthcare Professional (Optometrist) | Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapist | In person, Cairns-Based & Online Australia-Wide | Personal Lived Experience of Recovery
Somatic processing therapy recognises that healing involves more than the mind.
Somatic approach works holistically with all aspects of the self — physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. By combining parts work with the exploration and release of core limiting beliefs, clients begin to understand the deeper patterns that were driving their experiences.
Many describe the process as putting the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together — as disconnected parts of themselves begin to make sense, connect and form a clearer picture of who they truly are.
Rather than simply helping you understand why you feel the way you do, somatic therapy helps your body process what it couldn't at the time the experience happened.
By creating safety within the nervous system, the body can begin to release the unresolved emotions and survival responses it has been carrying.
As your nervous system becomes more and more regulated through root level processing of stuck emotions and patterns, you stop reacting from the past and begin responding from the present. You no longer hold the emotional charges from the past that were driving your patterns in the now.
While coping strategies can help in the short term, somatic work focuses on resolving the patterns driving the symptoms, so you can experience lasting peace, emotional freedom, deeper clarity, and finally feel safe in your own body again.
Sheetal has helped me overcome barriers I have struggled with all my life. Finally, feel like I can move forward in life.
I’ve had dimensional therapy sessions with her, along with energy healing that uncovered the root causes which revealed some limiting beliefs. These sessions were empowering and tied loose ends back to trauma. Others will surely benefit from somatic trauma healing as I have!! Thank you Sheetal! Much love.
I found Sheetal on Google when I was in a deep grieving period of my life, my anxiety and Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms were very heightened. I was really nervous for my first session, however Sheetal thoroughly explained the process and made me feel safe and calm. My first session was intense and I was amazed at my subconscious wisdom and body's ability to hold on to trauma that I was unaware I was carrying. I have had major shifts, I feel the most connected to my highest self that I have in many many years, if not ever, I am feeling generally less anxious and seem to have more control over my emotions and my ability to sit with and process them. Somatic work has created shifts in ways I didn't know possible, it is truly amazing work that Sheetal is doing. Finding Soul Reflection was exactly what my soul needed. I highly recommend doing this work.
10/10 would recommend. Sheetal is a wonderful therapist, she has a kind and caring approach in her sessions.
After finishing sessions with Sheetal I have gained more confidence in myself. I feel free and at peace. If you have been struggling with childhood trauma i would recommend soul reflection
Sheetal facilitated some trauma release work that was ready to be released with the right practitioner. Her manner, guidance and support was gentle and strong at the same time!
Former healthcare professional (optometrist)
Trained in somatic approaches
Online and Cairns-based in person sessions
Personal lived experience with recovery frameworks
My approach is rooted in both lived experience and professional training:
I’ve walked through anxiety, depression, and the dark night of the soul — and emerged with hard-earned wisdom.
I experienced firsthand the impact of somatic healing when I cleared heart palpitations long before I even knew what somatics was.
Since then, I’ve studied and integrated a wide range of somatic, integrative, and energy-based modalities to support deep recovery and transformation.
A spiritual awakening over a decade ago sparked a powerful growth journey that continues today.
BEFORE: Unable to process all “the traffic” in her head. Her emotions were very heightened and showed up physical anxiety symptoms in the chest & gut. Jen approached me as her husband was triggering childhood trauma of witnessing her parents relationship, where her father was a bully. She was also not allowed to express her emotions -leaving unprocessed emotions trapped within her body. Together we agreed on a 9 × 2hr session pack.
AFTER 9 sessions of working with me: she said ”I am now a much happier, confident, calm and empathetic person.”
BEFORE: suffering from anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, gut & womb health issues. Suffered repeated sexual abuse as child. Had tried talk therapy sessions, and breath work. Sleep issues most her adult life past due to feeling unsafe most of her life, which progressively got worse over the years. She was in a very stressed, freeze state with a constant feeling of being unsafe. Grew up in a household with an alcoholic & violent father and witnessed domestic violence inflicted on her mum on multiple occasions. She grew up feeling neglected as her mum was depressed and was not ‘present’.
Signed up to 12 session pack - 5x energy healings at root of sexual abuse, and building safety into nervous system followed by 7x somatic therapy sessions
AFTER: Reduced gut and womb issues. Able to be more present mum, feeling far less anxious and feeling safe to relax and sleep. Found her life purpose and signed up to a counselling diploma course.
BEFORE: Stress, anxiety symptoms. She was married to a narcissist for well over a decade before separating. Plus interfering in laws that gas lit her. They all emotionally & mentally abused her, made her feel not good enough. We agreed on 3 sessions of Somatic Regression sessions. Unusual case as all 3 sessions lead to somatic clearing as an ancestor where limiting beliefs originated, creating huge shifts within her own life.
AFTER: On follow up after finishing the sessions, her anxiety levels had plummeted and tightness in chest and shoulders had gone as she had shifted many stuck emotions within the torso regions as well as her arms/hands.
Each session is around 2 hours long. Your first session is primarily about regulating your nervous system by building layers of safety/ neutral anchors within the body.Before we can touch the root of any recent trigger, your body needs to feel safe enough to do so. There after, depending on your system, we may or may not be able to clear all emotional charges of the root event in that first session — this is always led by your nervous system, not a timeline. This is where the downloadable nervous system questionnaire helps us to see which of fight/flight/ freeze/fawn the nervous system defaults to.
Freeze/shut down and some cases of Fawn/people pleasing will need more sessions that those who are primarily in fight or flight as their emotional energy is repressed/ shut down underneath the freeze. (See Working with Freeze section.)
I am intuitively guided where how the session unfolds for the highest good of the person. Most of the time, if their system is not primarily in freeze, then the person is able to clear a root event in first session. However, not all are able to as their autonomic nervous system needs time to feel safe enough to start processing their past. In this case, if you are open to it - I would be guided to do energy healing to clear any blockages thats preventing you from healing, and to help regulate you further.
Based on your nervous system questionnaire and our initial free mapping call, I will recommend an approach that best supports where you are right now.
If your nervous system is spending a lot of time in freeze or shutdown, we don't need to force change or push you to process more than you're ready for. We can work at a pace that feels manageable for you, allowing space for your body and nervous system to respond.
Rather than two-hour sessions, I may recommend one-hour sessions, giving us more space to work gently and build gradually, without overwhelming you.
I generally recommend a minimum of 12 sessions to allow time for us to explore the patterns beneath your symptoms, work with your body's responses and support you through the process. Your needs are individual, and we will review how the approach is working for you as we go.
I draw on my intuition and experience to guide the direction of each session, while paying attention to what you share, how you respond and what feels appropriate for you on the day. There is no expectation that you need to know what to work on or have everything figured out before you arrive.
If you are open to energy healing, we can also incorporate this into your sessions. Your 12-session journey may include a combination of somatic processing and energy healing, depending on your needs and preferences.
This is not about forcing yourself to feel more, do more or push through.
It's about creating space to understand your responses, reconnect with yourself and gradually develop a greater sense of safety within your body.
You don't have to do it all at once. We work with where you are, one session at a time.
For anxiety, I use a 6–9 session framework, ( see below link) which you can explore in detail on the Anxiety page.This work focuses on calming the nervous system, clearing the emotional imprint driving anxiety, and restoring internal safety so your body no longer needs to stay on high alert.
https://www.soulreflectionhealing.com.au/somatic-therapy-for-anxiety
If you are open to it - we start with regression-based energy healing to meet the original impact of the trauma without overwhelming your system.These early sessions help clear blocks in the energy system, calm fight/flight/freeze responses, and activate the body’s natural capacity to heal.
From there, we build somatic safety layer by layer.Only when your nervous system feels stable enough do we move into deeper somatic processing.
This is where real transformation happens — through your body’s own processing, guided questions, and the space to finally resolve what was never completed.
This framework is deep and powerful.It dissolves limiting beliefs, heals trauma at its source, and reconnects you to who you truly are beneath survival patterns.
PTSD healing requires patience and commitment.Every nervous system has its own pace, and trauma stored over many years cannot be rushed.For this reason, a minimum of 12 sessions is recommended.
You can explore the full PTSD framework and case studies on the PTSD page:
I only work with clients who are genuinely ready for recovery, not quick surface level relief.Deep healing cannot be rushed or done casually, and it doesn’t happen in one or two sessions. The way you move through this journey depends on the main state of your nervous system. This is where the downloadable nervous system questionnaire helps us to see which of fight/flight/ freeze/fawn the nervous system defaults to. Freeze/shut down and some cases of Fawn/people pleasing will need more sessions than those who are primarily in fight or flight as their emotional energy is repressed/ shut down underneath the freeze.
Your first session is primarily about regulating your nervous system.Before we can touch the root of any recent trigger, your body needs to feel safe enough to do so.Depending on your system, we may or may not be able to begin clearing the root event in that first session — this is always led by your nervous system, not a timeline.
I don’t offer casual, one-off bookings because this work requires consistency, containment, and commitment to be effective.
your autonomic / automatic nervous system might have defaulted to during its formative years of 0-7. Your nervous system can still be stuck in fight, flight or freeze/ shutdown ever since, in which you have no conscious control over. By focusing on your unique journey so far, we can map out your recovery path by combining modalities tailored to you. Where it feels intuitively right, I also add timeline journey on way back after clearing original event, collecting all related events that will be processed automatically by your unconscious mind in the background in following week /fortnight. This fast tracks your recovery. I also weave in Inner child healing after clearing events where necessary, but usually the inner child is calm and at peace after clearing stuck emotions and trauma
Its the this autonomic/ automatic part of us that in the drivers seat, causing you to react to triggers in the now, causing sensations and symptoms within the body. Our human thinking brain tries to rationalise and think its way out. However, it’s only by outsmarting your conscious brain and going into body and sitting & feeling sensations within your nervous system , can they finally be processed and released, gaining clarity . The nervous system does not understand words, it only understands sensations.
Somatic therapy isn’t covered by medicare or private insurance as its not yet recognised by mainstream. So its fully private pay only. Mental health plan can only be used with psychologists or mental health social workers.
I work with people who are fully ready to recover & those who are done with surface-level healing.
They’ve tried talk therapy, Reiki, kinesiology — and maybe felt a little better, but nothing changed.Because no one helped them get to the real root — the part that keeps recreating the same pain.
My work goes where the symptoms end and the true healing begins.
My work isn’t for anyone half-in, half-out on their healing.It also isn’t a fit for those currently on antidepressants, since these medications numb the very sensations we need to access for somatic work.
If someone is looking for a quick fix or surface-level relief, this won’t serve them.My work is for people ready to meet what’s at root level of their problems— and actually heal it on all levels: mind, body & soul.
If you’re constantly juggling responsibilities and struggling to find a sense of balance, you’re not alone. Many people who live in their masculine energy — always doing, achieving, and pushing — are often disconnected from their inner feminine: the part that allows rest, flow, and emotional connection.
Overworking can sometimes be a way to avoid the discomfort of what’s held beneath the surface — the unresolved emotions or childhood wounds stored in the body. But what we resist tends to persist.
If you feel called to do deeper healing work and create true balance within yourself, I can support you. I’ve walked this path personally — learning how to integrate my masculine drive with my feminine wisdom — and I now guide others to find that same inner harmony.
Frame work is similar to Anxiety frame work, see:
https://www.soulreflectionhealing.com.au/somatic-regression-therapy-for-anxiety-depression
It can feel like life is already full — and then the universe adds another layer with hormonal changes and all the symptoms that come with them. While it’s often treated medically as a problem to fix, perimenopause and menopause are not diseases. They’re natural transitions — the same ones our maternal ancestors experienced long before synthetic hormone replacements existed.
What many women experience today is a body struggling to complete that natural shift. Chronic stress, emotional strain, and unresolved trauma can all interfere with how the body transitions from reproductive hormones to relying on adrenal support. When the nervous system is overloaded, the symptoms intensify — but with the right support, this phase can become a powerful opportunity for healing and renewal though somatic therapy.
"We acknowledge the Djabugay people as the Traditional Owners of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging,"
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