Somatic Birth Processing

Gentle, body-centered support to help integrate your birth experience

Sometimes birth leaves echoes. Sensations, memories, or emotions that keep returning. You don’t have to carry them alone.

Somatic birth processing offers a safe, mother-centred space to gently explore what your body is holding, so you can feel seen, supported, and settled again.

With gentle bodywork, prenatal and perinatal somatics, and trauma-informed nervous system care, this work helps you move from reliving your birth to integrating it, so you can honour your experience, and also feel more like yourself again.

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How it works

Somatic Birth Processing is offered in three 1.5-hour sessions, tailored to your needs. Sessions focus on:

  1. Finding your resources: Identify the internal and external supports that were present during pregnancy and birth, to begin grounding in safety and regulation.

  2. Mapping and processing challenges: Explore and process difficult experiences, tensions, or unresolved emotions held in the body.

  3. Integrating and repairing: Consolidate your learning, restore connection with your body, and create tools for ongoing healing and empowerment.

Who this is for

  • Mothers who want to explore and celebrate the immensity, magic, and complexity of birth

  • Mothers feeling haunted by their birth who are carrying unresolved emotions or tension from a challenging experience

  • Those seeking trauma-sensitive, body-based support

  • Birthing parents ready to prioritise their postpartum healing

  • Spaces are limited to ensure each person receives dedicated time and support

  • ONLINE Sessions

    3 × 1.5 hr sessions via Zoom

    $450 for the package

    Sessions are held on Mondays, with flexibility for scheduling within available slots

    Online sessions include somatic processes to help you make sense of your birth experience. You are guided in a safe, supportive environment to integrate your body and emotions, even from a distance. Yes this works well online.

    After enquiring, I’ll confirm availability and send booking and payment details.

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  • IN HOME sessions

    3 × 1.5 hr sessions at your home (Thornbury, Melbourne + 20-min radius)

    $750 for the package

    Sessions available Mondays 10:00 – 11:30 am or 12:30 – 2:00 pm

    In-home sessions include the same somatic processing as online, plus hands-on bodywork to support integrating your story and experience. In-home sessions cost more because I’m providing the same high-quality, trauma-informed work plus travel, setup, and hands-on bodywork.

    After enquiring, I’ll confirm availability and send booking and payment details.

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A little more about how Somatic Birth Processing supports you.

  • Somatics is a body-based approach to understanding and working with your experiences. Instead of focusing primarily on thoughts or words, it pays attention to physical sensations, posture, movement, and the nervous system. Somatic work helps you notice how your body holds memories and emotions, so you can support regulation, release tension, and integrate experiences in a safe, gentle way.

  • Processing in this context means gently exploring and making sense of your birth and early experiences physically, emotionally, and relationally, in a way that allows your body and nervous system to integrate what happened rather than relive it. It’s not therapy, counselling, or psychology; it’s a guided, relational, and embodied way to work with your experience.

  • Birth in somatic birth processing, isn’t just the moment your baby enters the world. It includes the whole journey: preconception, conception, pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum, and even breastfeeding and Motherhood. Each stage can leave impressions on your body and nervous system, and this work helps you make sense of, integrate, and honour the entire journey.

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Testimonials

"Sophie’s presence gave me permission to rest, to indulge, to do whatever I needed to do. Even if the baby cried for hours, it was okay. I felt cared for, supported, and truly nourished." Damaris

"The bodywork and Closing the Bones ritual were incredible. I felt my body coming back together and my mind settling. It was the dedicated time for me that made all the difference." Camilla

"I felt nourished on every level, body, mind, and spirit. From the first visit to the last, I felt stronger, calmer, and more confident as a mother." Mardi