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Welcome to Somatic Therapy with Suhad
Face-to-face and online Somatic Therapy and Integrative Bodywork for Trauma Resolution.
London, UK
The nature of Somatic trauma 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.
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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.
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I offer in person therapy sessions in two locations in London: South West (Brixton & Vauxhall) and North West (Marylebone).
Prices:
1 hour session in Brixton is from £80
1 hour session in Marylebone and Vauxhall is from £ 100
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I offer a somatic, hands-on approach that works across all physiological systems to facilitate deep listening and a restorative state where healing occurs naturally. By supporting the autonomic nervous system, endocrine, immune, and fluid systems, we address the root of chronic depletion. While trauma and chronic stress can leave the adrenals exhausted, the body retains an innate capacity for recovery; my role is to facilitate the pathway back to that vitality. This work is highly effective for those navigating chronic pain, auto-immune conditions, or long-standing patterns of physical bracing and 'armouring.' Due to the depth of this systemic work, I recommend two-hour sessions to allow the nervous system sufficient time to settle and integrate."
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I facilitate the re-patterning of developmental and in-utero trauma through specialised bodywork and the integration of Infant Movement Patterns. Using a trauma-informed lens, we work to transition the nervous system from states of historical disruption toward somatic completion and wholeness. Because this work involves reorganising deep-seated physiological foundations, I recommend a minimum commitment of an eight-session package. Extended sessions are often required to allow the body the necessary time to safely unfold and integrate these early patterns.
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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
What safety feels like in your body? When was the last time you felt you belonged to your body?
I will gently guide you to begin finding way to connect with your body and find resources of safety and stability. Listening to the body can be a big task for some of us carrying the burden of trauma! I meet you where you are and we choose a starting point based on what you want to resolve. This is a foundational place to spend time in progressively to not only listening to what your body is trying to say and has been holding for a long time. but also to expand your Nervous System capacity progressively and therefore build resilience to work with traumatic material.
Processing: Titrating Trauma Symptoms Together
How is your body protecting you from feeling certain feelings and connecting with certain memories?
When establishing a “good enough” safety in the body, we enter a co-creative process of somatic inquiry into what the body’s speaking: through tension, contraction, bracing, pain, posture, etc. The aim here is to build a shared understanding of how your symptoms operate and what keeps them in place today. We meet your protective parts that guard emotional burdens and unprocessed losses and we map out what needs to happen in order to heal.
weave in many somatic approaches and practices such as Autonomic Physiology of connection, Somatic Experiencing® and SE™, Process-oriented work, and Infant Movement Patterns and Therapeutic Authentic Movement of BMC®.
Integration: Movement and Completion
Completion, Grounding and Integration.
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.”