Somatics        Psychotherapy        Counselling        Mentoring  

Somatics is a homecoming — a return to your body as a source of wisdom, resilience, and transformation.


By attuning to your embodied patterns, learn to reshape the automatic into the intentional, cultivate agency, dignity, connection, and a life that moves in alignment with your values.

Work with Isy

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    Somatic Psychotherapy & Counselling

    Holistic, individual therapy integrating both cognitive and embodied information, memories, and wisdom. My approach is trauma-informed, queer-affirming, decolonial and informed by neuroscience.

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    Embodiment & Movement Sessions

    Practice sessions that focus on the present-moment experience of connecting to your body. Sessions can incorporate mindful movement & stretching, somatics, nervous system regulation and psychoeducation.

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    Somatic Mentoring for Practitioners

    Tailored mentoring sessions to support practitioners and allied health works to weave somatics into their own professional wellbeing, as well as their work with others.

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About Isy

Isy (she/they) is a somatic psychotherapist and counsellor. Specialising in mental-health aware, queer-affirming and trauma-informed frameworks, Isy’s approach to both counselling and embodiment practices is holistic and deeply relational. 

Isy is a queer, white-bodied, intersectional feminist who understands that somatics and therapy is both political and personal.

Isy grew up on the unceded lands of the Bunurong people, and now lives and works along the Birrarung on sacred, Wurundjeri Country.

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Testimonials

  • “I’ve never felt so deeply heard, supported, and held by a practitioner before. Isy's presence is gentle, compassionate, and grounding, and through our work together, I’ve learned so much about myself."

    A. Somatic Therapy Client

  • “Isy has enabled me to be more open, and more positive (both verbally and emotionally), and I now have a lot more confidence in who I am as a person.”

    R. Somatic Therapy Client

  • “With a compassionate and empathetic approach to her sessions, Isy creates a calm, safe space for me to openly explore whatever is on my mind and help me navigate areas I am unable to articulate.”

    N. Somatic Therapy Client 

  • "I have been engaging in trauma-informed movement sessions with Isy over the past few years and I have never experienced such a safe creation of space and connection before. Isy is warm, highly skilled and an excellent communicator. I feel held during my sessions with Isy and am able to sink in to connection with self/body more easily thanks to her support."

    B. Embodied Practice Client

  • “Isy helps me learn to care for myself, and affirms the ways I already do.”

    C. Somatic Therapy Client 

  • “Through her support, I've gained new perspectives on various aspects of my life and I'm grateful for the tools and strategies we've navigated to help me through the tough times. Isy's support has been invaluable in times where life has felt like too much and for times when I just need to be heard.”

    K. Somatic Therapy Client 

  • "Isy has given me tools I’ll carry with me for life, tools that help me show up for myself with more kindness, self-compassion, and grace. I’m so grateful for everything she’s helped me uncover and heal.”

    A. Somatic Therapy Client 

Connect with Isy

If you are interested in working together, or have questions you’d like to discuss, please fill out this form and I will respond to you as soon as I can.

*Please note that the kind of therapeutic work I offer is not suitable for folks during times of crisis, and I cannot offer crisis support.