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All ACT Bodywork & Somatic Therapies

Bodywork & Somatic Therapies support healing, regulation, and self-awareness through the body rather than the mind alone. These approaches recognise that stress, trauma, emotions, and life experiences are often stored in the nervous system and physical body. By working with touch, movement, breath, and embodied awareness, somatic therapies help individuals reconnect with bodily sensations, restore a sense of safety, and release held tension. Sessions are typically gentle, trauma-informed, and client-led, emphasising consent and presence. This category supports physical wellbeing, emotional resilience, nervous system balance, and a deeper sense of connection between body and mind.

Examples

  • Massage therapy and remedial bodywork
  • Somatic experiencing and body-based counselling
  • Craniosacral therapy
  • Yoga therapy and therapeutic movement
  • Breathwork and embodied awareness practices




Mind Care Therapy Canberra

  • Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Telephone: 0478 643 950
  • Website: https://mindcaretherapy.com.au/services/somatic-therapy/
  • Description:
    Mind Care Therapy provides somatic psychotherapy sessions that integrate traditional counselling with body-awareness techniques. The therapy focuses on helping clients release stored tension, regulate emotions, and reconnect with their body’s natural healing processes. Somatic therapy can support recovery from trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, and grief by exploring how emotional experiences are held within the body and nervous system

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    Inner Strength Trauma Therapy & Counselling  

      

    • Practitioner: Chantal Jackson
    • Location: Canberra, ACT
    • Website: https://www.innerstrengththerapyandcounselling.com
    • Description:
      Inner Strength Trauma Therapy offers somatic experiencing therapy and counselling designed to help individuals reconnect with their body’s natural capacity for healing. The practice integrates somatic experiencing, integral somatic psychology, counselling, and coaching approaches to support trauma recovery and emotional regulation.

    Somatic Psychotherapies

    • Practitioner: Gaye Mallinson
    • Location: Canberra, ACT
    • Website: https://www.somaticpsychotherapies.com.au
    • Description:
      Somatic Psychotherapies combines counselling with trauma-informed yoga therapy and mind-body techniques. The service supports individuals, couples, and families through somatic awareness, helping clients understand the relationship between physical sensations and emotional wellbeing.

      

    Soma Women’s Wellbeing

  • Location: Dickson, ACT
  • Website: https://somawomenswellbeing.com.au
  • Description:
    Soma Women’s Wellbeing is a Canberra-based wellbeing centre offering somatic meditation, embodiment practices, movement therapy, and women’s circles. Programs focus on reconnecting people with their bodies, reducing stress, and building supportive community environments for healing and personal development.

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    Kendra Healing Arts

  • Practitioner: Kendra Boone
  • Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Website: https://www.kendrahealingarts.com
  • Description:
    Kendra Healing Arts provides trauma-sensitive yoga therapy, TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release), and somatic bodywork. These practices help regulate the nervous system, release long-held muscular tension, and restore a sense of safety and connection within the body. 

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    Dianna Moroney – Somatic Healing & Naturopathy

  • Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Website: https://www.diannamoroney.com
  • Description:
    Dianna Moroney integrates naturopathy with somatic healing approaches including Somatic Experiencing and Neuro-Emotional Technique. Her practice focuses on supporting clients with stress, burnout, hormonal imbalance, and nervous system dysregulation through a holistic mind-body approach.

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      Anna Siebert Therapy 

  • Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Website: https://annasiebert.com.au
  • Description:
    Anna Siebert combines counselling, somatic therapy, and spiritual healing to support trauma recovery, motherhood transitions, and emotional wellbeing. Her approach emphasises reconnecting individuals with the intelligence of the body and developing resilience through embodied awareness.

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    Here. Wellbeing

  • Practitioner: Clinton McCulloch
  • Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Website: https://behere.co/team/clinton-mcculloch/
  • Description:
    Here. Wellbeing offers somatic psychotherapy and mindfulness-based therapy. Clinical psychologist Clinton McCulloch integrates Hakomi mindful somatic therapy, neuroscience, and mindfulness techniques to help clients explore their inner experiences and support emotional healing. 

    • Transforming Touch® Canberra

  • Practitioner: Kate Dillon
  • Address: Chisholm, ACT
  • Telephone: Not publicly listed
  • Website: https://katedillon.net/transforming-touch
  • Description:
    Transforming Touch® is a gentle somatic therapy designed to support nervous system healing. Through guided body awareness and therapeutic touch, the practice helps individuals address developmental trauma and restore a sense of safety and regulation.

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