embodied healing, empowered living

Your body is an intricate map, guiding you to where needs love, where needs support, where needs release.

Embracing somatic healing work is becoming an explorer of your own internal map. A curious detective to the story it holds.

The core of somatics lies in fostering greater embodiment, which can lead to improved self-awareness, balance, and an integrated sense of well-being.

WHAT IS SOMATICs?

Somatics is a mind-body approach that helps you increase body awareness and deepen your relationship with self. Somatics aims to heal the psychosomatic split and build a deeper awareness of the body’s senses and sensations in connection with emotions. Rooted in practices that blend movement, mindfulness and self awareness, somatics aims to help individuals become more attuned to their physical experiences and how they relate to mental and emotional states.

The term comes from the Greek work soma, meaning “body” and it typically refers to the body as experienced from within.

Common Applications of Somatics:

1. Therapeutic Use: For managing stress, trauma, and chronic pain by reconnecting with the body.

2. Movement Education: Redefining movement for better alignment and function.

3. Mental Health Support: Trauma-informed somatic therapies help people process emotions stored in the body.

4. Self Expression: Using somatic practices to deepen physical awareness, creativity, connection with nature & community.

1 - 1 SESSIONS

As a Trauma Informed Integrative Somatic Therapist, Emma works intuitively dependant on your needs within a session, through a combination of Somatic Life Coaching & Somatic Trauma Therapy. Emma supports you in releasing past trauma from the body as well as utilising coaching tools to support your growth, healing and ability to step outside of your comfort zone and into a world of infinite possibilities. There is a strong focus on inner child work, family systems, breath & movement. Always ensuring everything is being brought back to the connection between the mind and the body, the soma.

These sessions can be done online or in person. The sessions in person can also include hands on myofascial release work when needed.

*In Person - Based at Blue Morpho - Broughton Street, Edinburgh

Testimonials

  • “When I first started my sessions with Emma I was in a very flat place with life. I’d just got over postnatal depression and was just feeling like I had no direction and struggling to find my mojo. After highlighting the areas I felt I wanted to focus on (which to be honest, I had no idea about until I started our session) Emma guided me to the answers to help me achieve my goals. She made me accountable for my actions & gave me praise for my achievements. Emma’s naturally very easy to connect with & helped me find myself again. I still have a way to go, but I finally am starting to feel excited about life and my potential again. I love working with Emma & am excited for our future journey.”

  • “Working with Emma helped me transform my life to the point where I feel truly happy, successful & blessed every day! We carefully untangled my over active mind to help define some clear goals for me to work towards across the different areas of my life. The process saw me examine my personal values, hold myself accountable and also learn to congratulate myself for the work I have done and how far I have come. Fast forward 9 months and I am having my most successful year as an entrepreneur ever, am enjoying “my present” to the max & am excited for what I want my future to look like & have a plan to get there. Thank you Emma!”

  • Life coaching sessions with Emma changed my life. Emma was able to provide me with all of the tools I needed to light my inner flame, improve self-confidence and find self-esteem. Over the time we worked together, I experienced improvements in every aspect of my life. I achieved goals that I had previously laughed at, because I never dreamt they were possible. With Emma's guidance I was able to take back control of my life and plan for the future I've always wanted. I'm already looking forward to more life coaching with Emma in the near future. Thank you again for teaching me that I can do anything I set my mind to.

  • My coaching sessions with Emma brought me back to life whilst simultaneously transforming my life. I was go, go, go all the time, deeply unhappy and had gotten into a negative pattern of only seeking external validation. I had lost myself. She encouraged me and held the safest space that meant I could not only come back to myself but that I could believe in and love myself again. Her words are still ingrained in my mind and I come back to them often and smile. She truly is the person that everyone needs in their corner.

  • Having had no experience of life coaching previously I was a little nervous about opening up to a complete stranger but Emma was so warm and welcoming that there really was no need to be worrying at all. And it all came out!! we set off on the journey of coach and Coachee And what a journey it was. Emma was amazing and helped me to break it all down into smaller chunks and make sense of it all and how we could tackle each area that needed work in the coming weeks to get me to where I needed to be. I made so much progress during our 12 Sessions and there is still work to be done. But I have learned to just enjoy where I am at NOW. The biggest takeaway from our sessions for me was the fact that Emma constantly acknowledged me for EVERYTHING that I was doing and the self-realisation that I was not actually broken and that I had all the answers within me all the time. She gave me the clarity and confidence to see that and to be able to tackle anything that comes my way in the future. I really enjoyed working with Emma and would 100million percent recommend her to anyone considering life coaching.

  • “Emma has given me coaching sessions over the last couple of months that have been transformational. I have had huge realisations and insights about myself during this process which have absolutely changed my life for the better. Emma is an amazing life coach and has supported me fully throughout; enabling me to take some very important actions. Because of this, I feel more confident in myself, which is amazing. Thank you Emma.”

  • Description goes hereWhen I started with Emma I was stepping into the unknown . Having previously had different therapies for trauma and PTSD. . I still felt unfulfilled in my life . I’d almost resigned my future and my life to just dealing with the trauma and found my life was a cycle of just getting through the day. I’d forgotten who I was and what I needed . Emma came along and radically changed everything, her warm and calming character teased out my sometimes defensive nature and made me see what I needed to nurture in my life . She made me feel excited and optimistic for my future again, she made me realise I needed to take care of me . I can honestly say that undertaking this journey with Emma was one of the most important and positive choices I have ever made . I will forever be grateful to of had this experience with Emma is simply brilliant

  • ””I do not believe I would be here without your support. we had a rough old time (lots of tears!) but you were right, doing the work is worth it! I’m not perfect - far from it! But I’m better at knowing my worth, taking up space and being brave and that is down in large to your help. I know that this is a lifelong process but I feel able to face it and I do think some/a lot of that goes to you.”

  • "I worked with Emma as my coach over a period of 6 months, after reading a glowing review from one of her clients. On the outside, people would describe me as strong, confident, kind and funny, but they did not know the real me.. I had a lot of self confidence issues, which I was a master in hiding from others. I was comfort eating and was overweight (despite exercising every day) and just generally feeling unhappy within myself. My time with Emma gave me a safe space to share my past experiences, which had continued to haunt me years later, as I kept revisiting them in my mind. I recall sharing with her that I felt tortured and that it felt like there was a big black cloud over me and my life. I felt like a failure and it was just dragging me down all the time. Emma encouraged me to visualise and focus on what happy looked and felt like for me and how I could get to that happy place. She supported me in realising my goals in a kind, compassionate way. I had a moment, where I started to fully understand the link between the past, my consequential emotional insecurities and my eating patterns and this was ground breaking for me!! I also read a book, from a selection that Emma had recommended and it all finally fitted into place. I feel that the authentic me has now finally emerged- confident, proud of who I am, happy within myself and strong enough to do what I want for myself, rather than trying to please others all of the time. My understanding of this has enabled me to stop sabotaging my eating and exercise routines, resulting in a sustainable, healthy eating and exercise regime (and 10lbs weight loss!), which I have maintained for over four months after my coaching sessions with Emma stopped. I’m so grateful to Emma for listening, caring, challenging (when required) and for ultimately helping me to be my authentic best self."

  • Emma has guided me through this transforming therapy, creating a safe environment with her calming nature. She has taught me some lifelong coping mechanisms that I will be teaching my children one day. I couldn’t thank Emma enough for the care and knowledge she has given and most of all helping me discover a life of calm & confidence in my authentic self.