Nervous System Healing & Somatic Psychotherapy for women shaped by developmental and relational trauma.
A nervous system-led approach to healing grounded in safety, relationship and the lived experience of the body.
This is a space for people living with the effects of early developmental and relational trauma — especially when those experiences still shape how the body feels and how relationships are lived.
Welcome
You may be living with anxiety, PTSD and CPTSD, collapse, freeze, shutdown, emotional reactivity, people-pleasing, difficulty with boundaries, or a sense of never quite feeling safe..
Before deeper trauma or relational work can be supportive, the nervous system needs orientation, understanding and enough safety to stay present in the body. Without this foundation, change can feel overwhelming, destabilising or short-lived.
This space exists to meet you at that beginning — with care, clarity, and pacing that respects the body’s timing.
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There is no single right way to start here.
You’re welcome to take your time and begin where your nervous system feels most able.
Several Ways to begin
1. Learn & Integrate — Guided, Self-Directed Courses.
These courses offer a nervous-system-led pathway for working with stress, trauma and attachment patterns — beginning with understanding and gradually moving toward integration in the body.
They are designed to help you:
understand how your nervous system has organised itself and why certain patterns persist.
reduce confusion and self-blame around symptoms and responses
gently build safety, orientation and capacity in the body
begin integrating new responses through paced, embodied practices
Many people use these courses:
alongside therapy, to support and deepen the work between sessions
before therapy, to build readiness and nervous system capacity
or on their own, as a structured and accessible way to begin.
2. Practising Safety — Somatic Embodiment Practises.
These somatic embodiment practices help the nervous system practise safety and containment through the body, the sense and gentle repetition — supporting regulation, connection and integration over time.
They include somatic deck cards, ritual boxes, guided practices and workbooks designed to be used slowly in your own time.
They are designed to help you:
practise settling and containment when your system feels overwhelmed
build familiarity with safety through repeated, sensory-based experience
support nervous system regulation between therapy sessions
bring understanding into daily life, rather than holding it only cognitively
Many people use these practices:
alongside therapy, to support integration between sessions
alongside courses, to embody and reinforce the learning
or on their own, as steady, non-demanding support
3. Working With Me — One-to-One Psychotherapy
I offer one-to-one somatic psychotherapy for people working with acute, early developmental and relational trauma. My work is grounded in sensorimotor and trauma informed psychotherapy and shaped around safety, pacing and what nervous system can actually hold.
One-to-one work allows us to:
build nervous system stability and capacity
work directly with relational patterns as they arise
support somatic processing at a pace your system can hold
meet experiences that may have been missing earlier in life
Many people choose one-to-one therapy:
after building foundations through courses or practices
alongside other supports, for deeper relational work
when they are ready to be met and supported more closely
A gentle place to begin
Nervous System Foundations is the educational ground everything else in my work builds on.
Nervous System Foundations is a gentle, structured introduction to understanding how your nervous system actually responds to stress, protection, and connection — and how developmental and relational trauma shape your patterns over time.
Many people begin here to orient themselves, reduce confusion, and build a grounded understanding before moving into somatic practices or one-to-one therapy. This work helps you see how your nervous system learned to organise around stress, trauma, and relationships, and why safety and understanding have to come first.
It’s grounded in sensorimotor and somatic psychotherapy, and in nervous system science — but shaped around pacing, clarity, and what your body can actually take in.
A 3-part series beginning here with Class 1:
Class 1 — Understanding Safety in Your Body, a free introductory class to begin at your own pace
In this essential introduction, you’ll begin to gently orient to your nervous system as an intelligent system that has been organising around safety, protection and connection throughout your life, doing its best to keep you safe.
Here you’ll learn:
Here you’ll learn:
How the nervous system shapes how you feel, react, and respond to the world
Why understanding your nervous system has to come before regulation, therapy, or deeper healing
How stress, threat, and early experiences influence your nervous system patterns over time.
How the nervous system changes through repetition.
It’s a gentle place to slow down, make sense of your reactions, and begin building a clear internal map of how your nervous system works — starting from the base, bottom up, so that real repair can later unfold with more safety, clarity, and capacity.
After Class 1
Class 1 offers a grounded place to begin — to orient, understand your nervous system, and explore what safety and healing means in the body.
Some people choose to pause there.
Others continue into deeper learning.
Classes 2 and 3 build gently on this foundation, exploring survival states, regulation, and trauma imprints over time.
There’s no rush — your’e invited to continue if and when it feels right for your system. . It’s a 3-part series created to help you understand how your nervous system responds to stress, protection, and connection — and how developmental and relational trauma shape your patterns over time.
Many people begin here to orient themselves, reduce confusion and build a grounded internal map before moving into somatic practices or one-to-one therapy. This foundational work helps you to understands how the nervous system learnt to organise around stress, trauma and relationships — grounded in sensorimotor/somatic psychotherapy and nervous system science, but shaped around pacing, clarity and what your body can actually take in.
Nervous System Foundations Class 2 & 3
Classes 2 and 3 deepen the foundations introduced earlier moving into how the nervous system organises through protection, regulation and trauma over time - and how those patterns continue to shape your reaction, emotions and relationships now.
Each class can be taken at your own pace and revisited as needed, supporting understanding and integration rather than forcing change.
Class 2 | Survival States In The Body
Understanding regulation, protection and nervous system states.
Class 2 explores how the nervous system organises through different survival states, and what regulation looks like within each one.
Drawing on Polyvagal theory, you’ll learn how the autonomic nervous system shifts between states of safety, mobilisation, and shutdown — and how these patterns develop in response to stress, threat and early relational experiences..
You’ll explore states such as fight, flight, freeze, shutdown, and collapse, how the nervous system moves between them, and why regulation looks different depending on the state you’re in.
This class supports you to:
understand the different nervous system states and their functions
recognise your own patterns of activation and shutdown
see survival responses as adaptive strategies, not signs of failure
understand regulation as a state-dependent process shaped by safety and capacity
Here we focus on how regulation works — as the nervous system’s ability to move safely between states over time.
Class 3| Trauma Imprints On The Body
Understanding developmental and relational trauma imprints
Class 3 explores how developmental and relational trauma, alongside stress, become held in the body — shaping the nervous system’s patterns, capacity, and sense of safety over time.
Drawing on nervous system science and somatic psychotherapy, you’ll learn how early experiences and repeated relational stress leave lasting imprints in the nervous system, influencing regulation, emotional response, and connection throughout life.
This class helps you to understand:
how developmental and relational trauma shape nervous system organisation
why trauma responses persist even when life is safer
how early imprints affect regulation, capacity, and relationships
why healing unfolds gradually through safety, support, and integration
This class provides a grounded, body-based understanding of how trauma imprints form — and what supports the nervous system to reorganise safely over time.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy works with how trauma, stress, and early relational experiences live in the nervous system and the body — not just in thoughts or stories.
Rather than analysing what happened, we work with how your system learned to organise for safety, connection, and survival. This includes patterns of hypervigilance, shutdown, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, chronic tension, and feeling disconnected from yourself.
Sessions are gentle, paced, and relational, supporting your nervous system to gradually experience safety, regulation, and capacity for change.
This work is especially supportive for developmental trauma, attachment wounds, chronic stress, anxiety, and long-standing patterns that don’t shift through insight alone
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Somatic trauma therapy focuses on how traumatic and overwhelming experiences become held in the nervous system as survival responses, states of activation or collapse, and implicit body memory.
Sessions draw on a nervous-system-led, trauma-informed approach that integrates methods such as Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Rewind trauma processing, EFT, and trauma-informed yoga — always paced to your system’s capacity for safety and regulation.
Rather than forcing exposure or catharsis, this work supports the gradual completion and integration of survival responses, helping the nervous system reorganise toward greater safety, stability, and connection.
This work is especially helpful for immediate acute PTSD, distress.
Consulting
Consulting offers a nervous-system-informed space for understanding your patterns, symptoms, and experiences through a trauma-aware, body-based lens.
This is less about therapy in the traditional sense and more about orientation, psychoeducation, and mapping how your nervous system has organised in response to stress, trauma, and relationships.
Sessions can support you to make sense of anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shutdown, chronic tension, and relational patterns — and to understand what your system needs to feel safer and more regulated over time.
This is especially helpful if you’re beginning your healing journey, integrating other therapeutic work, or wanting a grounded nervous-system framework without going into deep trauma processing.
I understand how important it is to work with a therapist of this nature. I offer a short introductory call to see how I can help and if I can support you on this journey.
Testimonials ( original available on Google Profile)
The Ritual Collection
A collection of sensory ritual tools to support nervous system grounding, safety, and regulation — offering gentle structure without overwhelm
Carefully crafted scents to support polyvagal regulation.
UPLIFT
UPLIFT is crafted to gently awaken your energy and remind your body what aliveness can feel like without overwhelm. Each blend invites movement and embodied renewal, guiding you back to a state of grounded vitality.
NURTURE
NURTURE is created to replenish emotional and nervous system safety — the warmth of touch, the scent of comfort through tender florals, the quiet reminder that you are cared for. A soft return to belonging, beginning with the body.
SOOTHE
SOOTHE is designed to quiet the system — calming tension, softening breath, and inviting a slower rhythm. Let warmth and stillness wrap around you, signalling to your nervous system that it’s time to release, exhale, and come home.
Ritual Kits
Somatic Practices
55-cards of somatic practices for regulation, connection & resilience.
Perfect for personal use, or in session for therapists & coaches, each card invites gentle awareness and choice, anytime you need to return to yourself. Based on the latest in Polyvagal Theory, Neuroscience, Somatic Psychotherapy & Trauma-Informed Care.
Meet: the Founder
Shalini Cameron
SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST | CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST | RYT YOGA TEACHER | SOMATIC EDUCATOR
Much of my work is with people whose nervous systems were shaped in early relationships — long before there were words, understanding, or choice. When safety, attunement, or consistency were missing, unpredictable, or overwhelming, the body adapted in ways that made sense at the time.
Those early adaptations often continue into adulthood, not only in how someone feels inside themselves, but in how they experience relationships.
Anxiety, shutdown, emotional reactivity, people-pleasing, difficulty with boundaries, or feeling unsafe in closeness are not personal failures or relationship flaws. They are nervous system responses shaped through early relational experience — ways the body learned how to stay connected, protected, or unseen when it had to.
Relational trauma doesn’t always come from what happened. Often, it comes from what was missing: enough safety, enough responsiveness, enough support to regulate and stay present in connection. When those experiences aren’t available early on, the nervous system carries forward patterns of vigilance, withdrawal, over-adapting, or self-abandonment — especially in intimate or emotionally significant relationships.
My work spans both foundation and depth.
Before deeper psychotherapeutic processing can be helpful, the nervous system needs orientation, understanding, and a sense of safety in the body. Without this foundation, relational work can feel overwhelming, destabilising, or repeat the very patterns it is trying to heal.
Once enough safety and stability are in place, deeper work becomes possible — including relational and developmental processing, integrating experiences that were missing earlier in life, and supporting the nervous system to encounter safety, boundaries, and connection within relationship, often for the first time.
This work happens slowly and relationally, through the body.
Not by forcing change.
Not by reliving the past.
But by creating the conditions where new experience can be felt, tolerated, and integrated.
This space begins at the beginning — with understanding, pacing, and care.
You don’t need to know yet how far you want to go.
When it feels right, you can start by gently orienting yourself to your nervous system through The Nervous System Foundations, Class 1, Understanding Safety In the Body is a free foundational class.
