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
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.
A gentle place to begin
Nervous System 101 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,.
Nervous System 101 Series
Class 1 | Your Nervous System Explained
Beginning with safety, a gentle class to begin at your own pace.
This is where we start, Understanding how your nervous system has been trying to keep you safe.
This gentle introductory class, you’ll begin to orient to your nervous system as an intelligent, adaptive system that organised around safety, protection and connection throughout your life, doing its best with what it had. This 50 minute class gives you the learning and psycho-education before the techniques, so your body no longer feels like the enemy.
In this class, you’ll begin. to understand:
How the nervous system shapes how you feel, react and relate.
Why understanding has to got to come before regulation or deeper healing.
How stress, threat, and early experiences influence your nervous system patterns over time.
How your system actually changes over time ( and why that brings real hope).
This is a gentle place to slow down, make sense of yourself, and begin a clear internal map of how your nervous system works.
We start from the base, bottom up, so that real repair can later unfold with more safety, clarity, and capacity.
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.
