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Nervous system regulation Tools Somatic therapy is different from talk therapy as it addresses physiological responses and goes beneath the cognitive and narrative

Slow Therapy for a Fast World

Hi, I’m Sinead, a trauma-informed somatic therapist dedicated to helping you reconnect with your body. You already know something is there. You've just never had enough space or time, to meet it.

Therapy often asks you to talk about it. To understand it, reframe it and manage it. And whilst making meaning is important it isn't the whole story.

Have you ever left a session still carrying the same thing in your chest? Still living the same patterns?

What if the problem wasn't the feeling but the pace?

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WHAT IS SOMATIC THERAPY?

What we do together

In our sessions, I will slow you down. Not as a technique but as a practice. Slow enough that something else can emerge. Slow enough that you can actually hear what your body is telling you.

We don't regulate feelings away. We don't fix or reframe. We meet them as they are.

This is somatic therapy. It follows the pace of the nervous system, which heals in slowness and in tiny, almost imperceptible shifts.

What can shift

More space between something happening and how you respond to it. That space matters because within it are choices that weren't available before.

Greater ease in daily life. Not because circumstances have changed but because you're no longer operating from a baseline of survival mode and things that used to take everything you had start to take less.

And sometimes, more aliveness. More of yourself available to you.

  • Emma Aitken

    “I’ve had 3 sessions with Sinead so far and they have been so transformative for helping me cope with anxiety. Talking therapy has helped in the past but being able to refocus on how anxiety shows up physically, and learn from Sinead the tools to navigate, ease,  and manage it has been so helpful and healing. She has a gift and couldn’t be more understanding and kind- thank you Sinead!.”

  • Caroline Britton

    “We were lucky enough to have Sinead come into a program and work 1:1 with me and our clients. We were all blown away by the impact her work hard. Both practical and tangible, we were given transformational exercises that shifted us on a profound and deep level. With her exceptional ability to listen, guide, explain and heal we left the sessions feeling more connected, free and in tune with our bodies. I couldn’t recommend Sinead and her work more highly.”

  • Roxi

    “Sinead has a truly special presence—calm, intuitive, and deeply supportive. Each session feels like a gentle return to myself. She creates a space where I don’t have to have all the answers or even know exactly what I need. Instead, she meets me with openness and care, allowing whatever wants to emerge to unfold naturally. Our work together has helped me re-engage with practices I already knew, but from a place of deeper embodiment and trust. Sinead doesn’t impose or direct—she guides with sensitivity and attunement, creating space for my own wisdom to re-surface. Her presence has strengthened my connection to inner resources I had momentarily lost touch with, and helped me rebuild a sense of groundedness in my body. I’m genuinely grateful to be supported by a practitioner who brings such skill, humility, and resonance to the therapeutic relationship. Working with Sinead continues to be a meaningful and restorative part of my healing process.”

Your Questions, Answered

  • Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing that works with the nervous system rather than just the thinking mind. Where talk therapy focuses on understanding and reframing, somatic therapy pays attention to what is happening physically — sensations, tension, breath, posture — as a way of working with what is stored in the body. It is particularly effective for trauma, anxiety, and patterns that have persisted despite insight or understanding.

  • Talk therapies like CBT work primarily at the level of thought — identifying patterns, challenging beliefs, building coping strategies. This is important but it’s only part of the story. For many people something remains unchanged even after years of talking. Somatic therapy works beneath the cognitive level addressing the physiological responses that underlie those patterns. It is slower, more attentive to the body and less focused on solving or reframing.

  • Sessions are relational and led by your nervous system's pace rather than an agenda. We might begin by noticing what is present in your body, your breath, your energy. From there we follow what emerges working with sensation, movement, and sometimes memory or emotion. There is no pressure to perform or produce. Some sessions feel significant and others feel more like gentle excavation. Both are part of the process.

  • Yes. Somatic therapy is particularly well suited to trauma, including complex or developmental trauma and C-PTSD. Trauma is not just a story it lives in the body as unresolved activation. A somatic approach works carefully and at pace with that activation without requiring you to retell or relive events. Safety and consent are central to how I work and we will never go too deep too fast.

  • Slow and steady friends, slow and steady! There is no single answer to this and I would be cautious of anyone who offered one. Nervous systems heal slowly and in small often imperceptible shifts. Some people notice changes within a few sessions. For deeper patterns that have been a lifetime in the making it can take longer.

  • Individual sessions are £65. I also hold two places at any time for people who want therapy and cannot afford it.

  • Yes. I hold two places at any time for people who want therapy and cannot afford it. This is not a concession it is part of how I believe this work should exist in the world. If you would like to apply or join the waitlist, email sjcwhyte@gmail.com

  • Yes. Sessions are available online and work well in that format. The relational quality of the work is not diminished by being on screen and what matters is the pace and the safety of the space.

  • I am based in Glasgow and work with adults online across Scotland and the UK. My clients tend to be self-aware, motivated people who sense that something deeper needs attention. People who have often tried other approaches and found they didn't quite reach the thing that needed reaching. 

WHAT IS TRAUMA?

“Trauma is a fact of life” (Peter A. Levine) but it can be overcome with proper support.

Trauma is anything which has overwhelmed the nervous system. What may not be traumatising for one person might have a devastating impact on another. Trauma is often at the root of limiting beliefs, difficult patterns of behaviour and anything that is keeping you stuck.

My trauma-informed approach ensures that your healing journey is handled with care and respect. I take a compassionate approach that prioritises safety, consent and pacing. We won’t go too deep too fast and you will be supported every step of the way in a space where you can feel heard, seen and safe. In other words, you can be your authentic, messy and human self.