Sarah Corrin

About Sarah

I believe that an attuned and resonant connection is essential in the therapeutic relationship for healing the emotional wounds that bring one to therapy. Finding a good sense of connection with your therapist is the most important place to begin in your search for a counsellor.

The body holds the secrets of your healing as much as it holds the expression of your pain and suffering.

In my practice, I draw from a somatic and relational attachment approach to the resolution of trauma. This is an embodied way of working with how our nervous systems are wired and conditioned around either states of fear and overwhelm or states of safety allowing for intimacy, trust, intuition, and connection.

WHAT IS SOMATIC THERAPY?

Somatic therapy works from the bottom up – body, heart, mind. Rather than only talking, we work with the felt sense in your body along the way. By tuning into and working with your sensations, feelings, images, gestures – the body’s own record of your life – we access the inner wisdom that is revealed.

Chronic stress and trauma stay in the body. They emerge from personal, relational, ancestral and collective adversity. They show up as anxiety, depression, reactivity, pain, complicated grief, complex trauma and a life that has quietly lost its vitality and joy. The patterns of stress, lack of safety, fear, fight, flight, freeze, and overwhelm contribute to chronic mental and physical illnesses.

Within each body there are subtle hints that guide us towards the inner resources needed for growth, healing, and transformation. In somatic therapy, within the context of a safe and attuned relationship, these inner experiences are the very ones that can unlock the constricted patterns wired into the nervous system. As trauma and constricted patterns release, a more authentic and joyful Self can be fully and freely expressed.

Essentially, paying mindful attention and tuning in to the wisdom of the body naturally facilitates the very healing we are seeking.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Trauma and Chronic Stress – Complex PTSD, persistent pain
Relationships and Attachment – fragmented, insecure, disorganized
Sensitivity and Intensity – HSP, emotional reactivity
Embodiment and Energy Modalities – Breathwork, QiQong
Ageing and End-of-Life Distress – life limiting and chronic illness