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Welcome to Somatic Therapy with Suhad

Face-to-face and online somatic movement therapy and Advanced Yoga teaching based in London, UK

The nature of Somatic work at its core is a body-oriented therapy that aims to tap into the body’s innate wisdom to heal. This is offering us a paradigm shift from solely working with thoughts to working with experiences that have been stored in the body as a result of stress, shock, or trauma. I offer a gentle and personalised approach to meet you where you are in your life journey and create a safe grounding space to explore what's present for you in the moment, supporting you to move towards Well-being, Resilience and Inner-harmony.

  • Reach out to get your free phone/online discovery call. During this call, you can share a bit about what’s going on and I can answer any questions you may have so we both consider how well we might work together. I respond in 24 hours, Monday through Friday, to all calls and emails.

  • I offer in person therapy sessions in two locations in London: South West (Brixton) and North West (Marylebone).

    Prices:

    • 1 hour session in Brixton is £60

    • 1 hour session in Marylebone is £75 (packages are available for a reduced cost)

  • If you are not based in London, I offer online sessions from the comfort of your home.

    Price is: £60 per hour.

  • There's a growing body of research supporting the benefits of mindfulness and wellbeing programs in the workplace. From reduced stress and burnout, enhanced focus and performance to improved well-being and job satisfactions.

    I am committed to working with charities that support refugees and asylum seekers. Reach out and happy to help and create something that is tailored to your needs.

Testimonials: what people are saying?

“Doing somatic therapy with Suhad has been the exact kind of healing I needed. Working with Suhad helped to alleviate a lot of chronic pains. I can’t say enough in words about her work “magic”. Somatic therapy is the ultimate kind of therapy for when we are ready to move beyond the old pains that no longer serve us”

— Tania, K

“The combination of Suhad’s gentle personality and powerful skills have been very helpful for me! I signed up to ten sessions with Suhad and eagerly look forward to each session despite knowing that healing work is never “fun” but therapy with her feels good and freeing afterwards when you commit to it..”

— Nour, J

“I have working with Suhad on a weekly basis. I find the pace and the depth of her sessions very good and suitable for what supports me each day. The weekly nature has been really helpful to process grief that am going through. Leaning into the support of the therapist has been very helpful in building more awareness to different parts of my body.”

— Myra, A

What does a somatic therapy session consist of?

Arrival: Safety and Stabilisation

Gently guiding you to listening to your body and find resources of safety and stabilisation. Listening to the body might be familiar or easily accessible to you, or you might have difficulty connecting with your body. I meet you where you are and we choose a starting point based on your inquiry. This is a foundational place to start listening to what your body has to say, wants to say, or is trying to say through bodily gesture, movement, or a symptom that you might come with.

Processing: bodywork, Movement, and Dialogue

We then enter into a co-creative process of inquiry working with somatic practices that are based on theories from somatic psychology such as Polyvagal Nervous System work, Process-oriented work, and movement practices such as Authentic Movement and the infant movement patterns of BMC®.

This supports you to go deeper into your bodily experience and uncover any memories or untold stories and could be that the nervous system releases through the body impulses.

Integration: expression through drawing and movement

Each session ends with offering you a space for reflection and integration. This could be about coming back into expression through movement that might emerge from processing a particular experience, or drawing images on paper to express what cannot yet be verbalised.

This allows you to experience a strengthened sense of embodied connection to your body and feeling of coherency.

Hi, I am Suhad Aljundi

I am an integrative body-work Somatic and Movement therapist (IBMT Dip. trainee) and advanced Vinyasa and Yin Yoga, Pranayama (breath-work), and meditation teacher. I am goal-oriented, warm and supportive therapist, committed to providing culturally sensitive care. I can help you learn to listen to the language of the body: sensations, metaphors, feelings, movement, gestures and facilitate a direct connection to the internal world. My approach aims to gently guide you to developing an increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions, working to complete what was disrupted at some point in life at the nervous system level such as trauma. I aim to bringing resolution to the dis-ease both at the nervous system level and the physiology level. I work with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultural experiences.

I believe that your story is unique to you and is worth being heard and seen. Together we can uncover the ways that you can bring your potential expressions out into the world and support you thriving rather than surviving.

“The body is the root of all our experience, through it all our impressions of the world come and from it all we have to share with the world is expressed.”
— Antony Gormley