My Services
When the body feels safe, everything changes.
Neuroscience proves what ancient wisdom has always known: the mind and body are inseparable - your emotional health is your physical and mental health.
While most programmes focus on working through issues cognitively and on managing symptoms, true healing requires rewiring your nervous system's stress response - reading your body's cues and building awareness of its sensations, so you can self-regulate.
This mind-body relationship is what's missing from typical stress management and personal development work. It's also what sets my approach apart: we help you connect back to the body to create lasting, sustainable change.
Choose your path to healing: detailed options and client stories follow.
You deserve to get your emotional health and vitality back!
Your Journey To Embodied Wellbeing
Every body is unique, which is why I offer three pathways to support you 1:1 from exactly where YOU are:
Free Personalised Path to Recovery
30 minutes to map your path forward from stress, anxiety and exhaustion through the lens of the nervous system healing for sustainable and lasting change:
During this personalised session, you'll:
Discover your dominant nervous system state
Understand why your self-care and stress management practices might be making things worse
Gain clarity on what lasting and sustainable healing looks like
Plus, a gift from me: You’ll leave with a simple body-based tool you can use to shift from stress to feeling calmer in the moment.
Discover Your Body’s Path to Recovery
Hear from my clients:
'I could never have imagined how just bringing my attention and noticing my sensations for the first time was already going to bring me shifts. It feels like being home and safe in my body.'
Michaela Burrell, Marketing Analytics Director
‘The most important shift for me has been this realisation that nothing is wrong with me, I am not broken, the way I've been feeling inside is a reflection of my nervous system and unresolved trauma.
‘Due to the simple foundational embodiment practices and more nervous system regulation, I have been able to sleep much deeper than before, and also wake up feeling refreshed.’
M.M. International Relations Manager
Break Free From The Chaos
Capacity Building
Embodiment Foundation
Start Here
6 sessions of somatic healing using Focalizing healing ‘technology’ - applying body awareness for trauma healing and personal transformation..
Over the period of 6 sessions I support you in calming the overwhelm at the root level of your nervous system through embodiment so you can be more present and grounded and build some capacity for the challenges in your life as well as for deeper healing. Without having to retell your story over and over again. You will be heard and seen, and we will work with the body to process what’s been stuck, rather than talk about it more, which is what you’ve already done. It’s time to go to the root level, gently but deeply.
Once you feel grounded and feel safe to focus on the felt sense in your body, I guide you through a unique process that allows the body’s innate healing capabilities to turn on and flow into the blocks that are preventing you from experiencing life more fully and which are often at the root of fear, anxiety and chronic health issues.
6 Sessions - Somatic Health Coaching £650 upfront, or two monthly payments of £345.
Hear from my clients:
‘I'm actually astonished at how much I'm getting from this work, because I didn't know what to expect... I really am quite astonished how much better I feel after just four weeks.
‘Pausing and paying attention to sensations in my body is a wonderful process because I can do this anywhere and it’s sometimes tiny like a bit of cool air on my forehead, my little finger resting on the sofa lightly… really unusual for me because my tendency is to be all or nothing a lot of the time.’
A. S., Management Consultant (recent client)
'I went into very stressful meetings this week and I managed to contain the sensations of my emotions before the overwhelm took over, and stay present with what was going on.
‘I've never experienced being in control in this way in my legal profession and life. I just know that this is because of the somatic exercises I've been doing this week and learning to notice my body.'
Kate, Senior Regulatory Counsel, City Law Firm
‘We've barely scratched the surface and I am already seeing a huge difference in myself just after two weeks. I am more present with what’s happening in my life which previously completely overwhelmed me.
‘This feels like a huge cloud is lifting because in the past, despite eating well and exercising, I have found it really hard to shift anxiety and fully recover from burnout. I can finally see a way forward.’
Kate, Senior Regulatory Counsel, City Law Firm
Get Your Energy Back
12-week Coaching Programme
A 12-week 1:1 immersive to help you further unwind chronic stress patterns in your body and restore your natural energy. Ideal if you're feeling drained and want to break free from exhaustion and depletion, prevent burnout and want to replenish, resource and restore vitality in your body through nervous system regulation and deeper emotional balance.
Structure: 11 sessions over a 12-week period.
Hear from my clients:
‘The programme helped me finally get to the root of my anxiety and depression, and given me a clear path to healing. I'm learning to connect and self-regulate. Together with learning emotional competency skills, this is bringing a huge shift in my life.'
Kimberley, Finance Director
'The programme has helped me to better connect with my body and its sensations, when emotions arise to really connect and feel where they are present in my body. And even if they are uncomfortable or overwhelming, to be able to sit with them and allow them to be there, rather than distracting myself or running away to the next task.
‘So I no longer get overwhelmed for days or weeks, because I am able to notice what's happening in my body and regulate myself.'
- M.M. International Relations Manager
Rewire Yourself From Inside Out
A 6-month Embodied Wellbeing & Leadership Coaching Programme
A 6-month 1:1 exploration to rewire your nervous system, repair and rebuild your body from the inside out for deeper self-trust, self-healing and self-leadership for self-actualised, self-referenced life, with an enhanced ability to co-regulate with others.
One of 6-month commitment or a month-on-month.
Message me for further information.
Hear from my clients:
‘I wasn't looking to change my whole life - I just wanted to stop feeling like everything was such a battle. What I found was far more powerful than another wellness protocol. I found my way back to myself.'
Anonymous, Partner, London-based law-firm (current client)
‘Possibly the most valuable insight gained very early in the course was the degree of tension that I was holding and how it was impacting me in my day to day life. One of the surprises I became aware of was the ease with which I was able to balance myself in situations that would have been rather difficult to deal with in the past.
Although this is still a journey, I’m pleased to say that there are some situations I didn’t even believe I was capable of facing before I started working with Katarina that I can now not only face but also work with constructively. It’s been a very transformational programme for me, thank you!'
Michaela Burrell, Senior Marketing Consultant.
Three pillars of embodied wellbeing
laying the foundation for our work together in all the options above:
1.
Understanding how your body works:
It's likely that you need a healthy dose of education about how stress works in your nervous system and how your mind and body actually work, so you can understand how you were shaped in embodied way into who you are today.
When you understand how your body works, you can tend to and heal what's not working at the root level of your nervous system.
Most of us don’t know what’s happening in our bodies and we think that there is something wrong.
The education helps to heal the part of you that is feeling guilty and ashamed around your symptoms and that piece is so important to be able to move forward with self-compassion. Many women blame themselves for not being able to show up as they want to and not living up to your full potential.
2.
Increasing your body-mind awareness skills:
Unresolved trauma and chronic stress often stunt our ability to feel safe and connect to ourselves, others, and our environment. Healing then is often about growing our capacity to come back to connection with these things in the present moment awareness through biological awareness skills.
When I talk about connection, I am not talking about some mystical thing that's out there in the ethereal space. I am talking about good old-fashioned sensory input and embodied grounding and presence.
Whether you're struggling with gut issues, tension, brain and mental focus, autoimmunity or chronic fatigue - learning how to bring this connection back is essential to your healing.
3.
Practicing embodiment to explore & connect:
Stress and trauma doesn't happen in our mental sphere (even if it shows up as mental struggle such as over-thinking or brain fog). It happens in our physical body which drives our thoughts, beliefs, stories and behaviours.
We can learn to be deeply grounded in presence and connection through embodiment (body) practices, which help us regulate our nervous system.
Practices are the third piece of the puzzle, in addition to education and self-awareness tools. It's where the healing magic happens!
Here you learn to move at your own pace with curiosity and self-compassion, which is such a new experience for many women - and in order to make it feel safe, we slow down enough to tune in for a few moments, a few times a day. You learn to titrate your practices which is like a balm to a nervous system that’s been functioning in high-sympathetic overdrive without a break.
How nervous system regulation is the missing link...
Periods of chronic stress or traumatic stress (especially in early childhood) shape our nervous system so that it quickly activates the fight-flight or freeze response when we’re under pressure.
This leads to emotional and physiological dysregulation, affecting our moods, emotions, thoughts and behaviour, as well as our physical health. Our nervous system state dictates how we feel about our self as a human being, how we perceive everyday events in our life, how we go about our day, how we are at work, at home, and in our relationships.
This nervous system dysregulation can lead to:
Prolonged anxiety, overwhelm, racing thoughts, feeling panicky, and an inability to relax.
It may also leave you feeling flat, dead inside, depressed, numb and disconnected.
You might find yourself shutting down when you need to speak up, saying things that you don’t mean and experiencing relationship struggles.
Physiological dysregulation effects the immune, endocrine (hormonal) and digestive systems leading to chronic health problems like inflammation, gut issues, chronic pain, insomnia, autoimmune and hormonal issues, muscle tension and even weight problems.
The nervous system is the link between your body and brain.
Practices, tools and skills that help to improve the functioning of your nervous system help build stress capacity and resilience, so that when you face challenges or conflict, you don’t move into fight-flight or freeze - the survival responses, but are able to stay present and connected.
The body is able to release old stress, trauma and old emotions out through embodiment (connecting with your body through biological self-awareness - awareness of your body and physiology). So that the nervous system finds new ways of responding to triggers that don’t emotionally hijack you and drain your body of vital energy. This is due to something called neuro-plasticity that allows us to rewire our brain and nervous system at any age. Learning the tools that help you to self-regulate means you can remain calm, energised, balanced and think clearly, and therefore stay healthy and well.
The beauty of the nervous system is that it has the ability to be re-patterned so that your emotional and physical health improves sustainably. Self-regulation and emotional competency are the foundation to this.
Curious to learn more?