Case studies
Client A, in early 40’s: PTSD
Came into practice suffering from anxiety, PTSD, gut & womb health issues. When asked what promted her to book sessions with me, she mentioned that she asked spirit guides what she needs to heal her mental health – the word SOMATICS dropped in and decided to Google for a somatic therapist.
She had suffered multiple sexual assault at a very young age for couple of years. She had tried hand full of talk therapy few years back. Eventually she gave up on that. She also tried breath work but gave up on that. She mentioned she would never stick to anything in order to recover from her past trauma. The word resistance to healing is what she mentioned.
Client A hadn’t been able to sleep most her adult life past due to feeling unsafe most of her life, which progressively got worse over last 8 years. She was in a very stressed, freeze state with a constant feeling of being unsafe.
Client A also had a history of childhood trauma, mostly verbal and some physical violence. She 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’.
Together we decided to start with a few energy healing sessions by taking her energetically back to the age where she suffered sexual trauma and work on the layers that showed up in that session. After the 1st energy healing sessions, she mentioned that she felt like giving up as she always gives up, but mentioned that her gut / stomach felt alot better. Through asking her important questions, she managed to stay on track.
After the 2nd healing session around the sexual assault, she mentioned she felt a lot calmer. She rated her sleep as 7/10, where as before working with me it was 3/10.
By the time it came to her 5th energy healing session, there weren’t that many layers that came up to be healed around the assault. She mentioned before her 5th session commenced that she had been crying & processing aftermath of what the sexual trauma caused. She was purging. At the end of the 5th session, we both decide that she was ready to start Somatic therapy on the 6th session.
Through using gentler somatic therapy at first and later somatic regression therapy, she was able to clear over 30+ limiting beliefs as well as childhood trauma, revealing her true self. As she continued further down the recovery path and purging more, she started to feel lost at first as she cleared the identity attached to past trauma. However, she realised the past wasn’t who she really was. Over the last few sessions working together, she was able to find her life purpose and signed up to a counselling diploma and moved to Melbourne to do so.
Client B, in her late 40’s:
Came to me with stress, anxiety symptoms. She was married to a narcissist for well over a decade. Plus interfering in laws that gas lighted her. They all emotionally & mentally abused her, made her feel not good enough.
Always looking over her shoulders since leaving marriage couple of years ago.
Had hypnosis sessions & energy healing sessions elsewhere, prior to working with me but still felt intense anxiety & tightness in chest & shoulders. She had done a lot of inner spiritual work and had talk therapy, however she was unable to shift this intense anxiety.
On our discovery call, we collaboratively decided on 4 session package of Somatic Regression therapy. This was an exceptional case, where in all her Somatic regression sessions, her unconscious mind led her to do Ancestral clearing which had a profound effect on her anxiety. Our souls and unconscious mind knows all and is connected to everyone involved. This also shows the power of clearing & healing the trauma of first ever event leading to the belief being worked on.
Session 1 Energy healing
We changed first session to do healing working on root event of marriage just to stabilise her intense anxiety on the day.
Session 2: Somatic
We then started work on Somatic Regression therapy – where the main profound self-healing starts to happen- when you do it yourself through guidance.
We muscle tested 30+ core limiting beliefs and I always look for the belief that will also shift many other beliefs with it. We decide to work on “Its not safe to be me” which took her to do Ancestral clearing on behalf of her mum as that’s where the belief started. We all carry some ancestral trauma that is carried down the DNA- there’s whole area of research dedicated to this called Epigenetics. I asked her unconscious mind for brief description of what’s going on and then she was guided to clear many emotions & feelings trapped as her mother. The details of the event are not as important as clearing the trapped emotions. After which, she was asked questions to gain as many learnings & clarity from the event. On returning to now on her timeline, she was asked to collect all the flash up events related to this event and around belief of not safe to be me which will all be processed in following week to fortnight by the unconscious mind I the background. She also collected events within the marriage.
Session 3 Somatic
On muscle testing in this session, we found she had shifted a few more beliefs just by working on above belief in last session:
In this session we worked on belief “I fear rejection” which took her into another ancestral clearing of stuck emotions as her grandma. Again, collected all related events on way back to now including related events in her marriage
Session 3: Somatic
Again, on muscle testing in this session, we found she had shifted a few more beliefs just by working on above belief in last session and she only had 2 out of 30+ beliefs remaining to work on. In this session we worked on belief “I fear success” which again took her into another ancestral clearing as her Grandfather this time and cleared event around his business
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. She also handed her notice at work to start working on her passion as a side hustle as she carried on in previous line of work as self employed until her passion gains moment to be her only source of income.
Client C in her late 30’s. c-PTSD
She was successful in her career by suppressing her trauma and keeping herself super busy to avoid the pain. Her nervous system was in functional freeze. But eventually her body started to scream with aches & more frequent migraines. Her body and soul only allowed her to escape her past to a certain extent, but now, no more. She was forced into finding deeper ways to heal from past.
She was getting no where with her counsellor. During counselling sessions, she would get sensations, images pop up within certain body parts but the counsellor had no idea how to deal with it and recommended EMDR with a local psychologist. An appointment was made with the psychologist, however her waiting list was long. The client started to seek alternative trauma healing methods.
She had tried online somatic yoga / exercises, but their automatic Q&A wasn’t resonating with her. She needed to make sense of what’s going on in her body and gain clarity as well as resolution. She searched for a Somatic therapist and that’s when she came across me and my work as an energy healer & somatic therapist.
On discovery call, Client C was at end of her tether. She couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, couldn’t think due to constant brain fog. She wasn’t being able to be a “good” mum to her young kids and her husband suggested for her to start to seek professional help.
I found that she had been under every single trauma you could possibly fathom from being neglected and beaten by parents and school kids. To later being raped and becoming a cancer survivor without any support.
We discussed the ways in which I worked. I want the best way forward for each client I take on, seeking the most direct route to their recovery, but always working within the window of tolerance for the person. I explained, I utilise energy healing to activate her own healing abilities as well as shift most of the fear out to help stabilise her nervous system. This fast tracks clients down the recovery path. Intuitively, she knew this was the way forward for her and we started down her healing path together.
I walked with her through her recovery, provided in between session support whenever she needed it the most and mentored her through some of the spiritual changes she was going through.
As per my working with PTSD framework, we started we a few energy healing sessions around root events of physical trauma she had been through. We also started to build her safety / neutral resource within the body, which she practiced as much as she could as home so that it became 2nd nature. As she was quite a sensitive person, she was able to sense which areas of body I was doing the energy work on.
We spoke about her readiness to start Somatic work from session 5 onwards.
I had planned another energy healing session for session 6. However, I always go with what the client needs on the day. She came in saying she had been really ANGRY past few days at her parents & brothers. Clearly, her subconscious mind was ready to start somatically process the past. So, we invited this anger & explored it through the body. By using my intuition & actively listening to her, I guided her into the root event of the Anger at her parents, which was aged 8 when they failed to come to her violin concert. We somatically cleared the stuck anger as well as sadness and few other feelings at that root event. I then guided her to collect all the similar events of being disappointed at parents all the back to now on her timeline. By collecting all relating events, we are fast tracking her recovery. As she had done the main task of somatically clearing the original event, the unconscious mind processes all collected events in background the following week.
For next few sessions, we carried on clearing root events of recent triggers which lie within childhood. No, we do not need conscious memory as the Unconscious mind within the body that’s knows all will always lead you to where you need to go to clear the trigger. We worked on the beliefs:
“I’m always at fault”.
I’m always dismissed by my husband- which again led her to clear childhood event around parents.
“I have pretending to be strong & Ok”
By session 8, her husband had noticed changes in her, saying that she looks different as well as being less “prickly “and softer. She herself reported feeling lighter.
We worked weekly over 5 months with some fortnight gaps to help her rest & integrate the Somatic work. I also had to swop out a Somatic session for an energy healing one as she strongly needed it to stabilise as she felt lost after clearing so much of what was her old identity tied to her childhood trauma. We were stabilising her as she was finding her true self, her authentic self under the trauma identity
At some point, we carried out the muscle testing of over 30+ limiting beliefs to process somatically. They all are doorways into original trauma that created those beliefs, such as:
Its not safe to relax
I need to struggle
I am not good enough
I fear betrayal etc
One of the feedbacks she gave me was that I always guided her to results within every session. She mentioned that with clock watching counsellors / psychologist, a topic was frequently stretched out between 2-3 sessions or more, repeating stuff. I am passionate about my client’s recovery and seek resolution of a topic / trigger within a session as long as its within the window of tolerance for the client ( so that you don’t dissociate). I want best path forwards for whoever I work with
As her trauma was complex, we both agreed she needed to carry on beyond the minimum recommended 12 sessions. We did space out to monthly sessions after this. By session 16, she was ready to work with the main violent parent. By session 19, she felt she was ready to clear out the rape event of all its emotional charge it held in her body. She knew she could always come back to her safety resource and in finding safety with me holding space & energetically holding her hand through the clearing.