Embodied relational practices for therapists and clients

Wholesome touch is vital for wellbeing.

For clients

Many clients are lonely and touch deprived. When clients are unable to fulfil their fundamental need for wholesome touch, it can restrict their therapeutic process.

Unfortunately, touch is not a part of most therapy. It is impossible to do online. Most professional associations and modalities do not allow it. Many therapists feel uncomfortable with touch or are unwilling to use it.

How can we help clients get the nourrishing touch and hands-on skills they need?

For therapists

You can only pour from a full cup, and can only guide others where you have walked before.

How can we replenish you and elevate your relating skills to support your clients better?

Safety and Care

Read how we approach this work responsibly.

First Steps

As with all therapy, everything starts by building a trusting relationship.

Find out about some possible first steps below.

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How do clients benefit from embodied relational practices?

Nurturing touch

Many clients are missing and needing safe, consensual touch. They benefit from receiving and giving nurturing touch in a structured, boundaried space.

Nervous system

co-regulation

Touch and co-regulation techniques help clients calm their nervous system, down-regulate stress, feel safe, and access deeper healing.

Practicing boundaries and consent work

Clients have opportunities to practise skills learned in therapy, such as noticing “yes's” and “no's,” communicating needs, and feeling empowered in relational dynamics.

Embodied healing

Clients can physically experience safety, trust, and connection in real time, and work on trauma, attachment wounds, intimacy struggles that are stored in the body.

How does the therapeutic process benefit?

Bridge insight and practice

Therapy often brings understanding, but clients may struggle to embody change. Embrace Connection provides a safe, structured space to practice boundaries, trust, and authentic expression in real time. Allow your clients implement and practice the lessons they learn with you.

Unlock new perspectives

Experimenting in a new environment provides new information. Perhaps a mess of issues can untangle to reveal the root cause. Perhaps something entirely new arises. These are valuable elements to bring back to the therapeutic process.

Get un-stuck

When clients struggle to overcome certain barriers, it is frustrating and disheartening for everybody. If an alternative approach can bring a shift, then the therapeutic journey can continue.

Enable access to connection and touch

If touch is not accesible through therapy, By enabling touch and connection in other ways, clients can have certain fundamental needs met, which allows them to focus on other parts of their therapeutic journey.

Enhance client outcomes

Clients who feel more regulated, resourced, and connected in their bodies can engage more fully in talk therapy, leading to steadier progress and more integrated results.

Read about Cuddle Therapy

Read about connection events

Client Benefits

Fill up your cup

You can only pour from a full cup. Holding space for clients can be draining over time. How do you replenish yourself? Cuddle Therapy is an opportunity to be held instead of holding others. Or join an Intimacy Jam, and be held by community!

Cuddle Therapy

Join exclusive events for therapists

Join us on January 28th for a special Intimacy Jam for Therapists only. Connect with peers experiencing similar challenges and stresses. Feel mutually supported. Find out what Intimacy Jams are all about, with no risk of encountering a client.

Therapist Only Event

Elevate your relational skills

What is your personal relationship with touch, intimacy, consent, boundaries, and desires? Elevate your own relational skills, so you can better support your clients with their challenges. You can only lead others where you have walked, yourself.

Connection Coaching

Helping you support your clients better

Care and Safety

Comfort and safety are fundamental. In order to be vulnerable and open up, we have to feel safe enough to trust. If we want to test our edges, we must have one foot squarely in our comfort zone.

I have put a lot of care into creating safer spaces for 1-1 sessions and group events. See details here. Every client and participant confirms that they have read this page before booking.

My background

I am a trained Cuddle Therapist, certified by Cuddle Professionals International.
I hold public liability and professional indemnity insurance, as well as an active DBS certificate.

I have spent years developing and practicing my consent, communication and space holding practices through trainings, workshops and personal practice before feeling ready to work professionally in this capacity. I continue to refine my practice as I work with more people and their diverse needs.

My value system, personal integrity, self-awareness, years of practice and commitment to supporting others give protection to the people I work with.

Regulation

I use the BACP Code of Ethics as a framework of best practice.

This industry is not regulated. While this carries inherent risk of bad actors, it empowers individual practitioners to carry the responsibility of creating safe environments and practicing safe, ethical behaviour.

1:1 Sessions

Safety and consent are at the heart of my work. Every 1:1 session is guided by a tailored Code of Conduct and clear professional boundaries.

I take responsibility for guiding and upholding modern consent practices, while supporting clients to discover and express their own boundaries. Regular check-ins ensure that clients remain in choice at every moment.

Each session is client-led:

There are no expectations around the type or amount of touch.
Clients always opt in to every activity.
Going slowly, pausing, or choosing no touch at all are fully welcome.

My practice is nervous-system informed and trauma-informed. If a client becomes triggered, I can support them to regulate and return to safety. I am clear that I am not a trauma therapist, and I refer clients to specialist support when needed.

Group sessions

Group spaces are held with a strong framework of agreements, including:

Advocating for one’s own needs and boundaries
Respecting and supporting the boundaries of others
Seeking clear consent and repairing if needed
Maintaining a sober, non-sexual space

Consent and communication practices are built into the structure from the start, ensuring participants have both guidance and tools to navigate the session safely.

Participation is always voluntary, and participants are encouraged to take space whenever needed. Throughout, I hold a steady presence — monitoring for wellbeing, supporting regulation, and ensuring a culture of care.

Testimonials

Clients and participants consistently report that they feel safe, comfortable, and cared for in the spaces I hold. Their experiences highlight the trustworthiness and integrity of this work.

View my testimonials HERE.

Care and Safety

First Steps

To help you get to know me and my practice, I suggest the following:

Attend a group event and experience the container firsthand.
Visit my therapy space in Fishponds (or on a call) to see how I frame sessions with new clients.
Let's have an open conversation — I’m always happy to answer questions, share more about my practice, and explore ways we might work together.

Let's have a call

Reccomend embodied connection events

Embrace Connection events are perfect environments for safely exploring edges, applying lessons, and finding insights. Participants can then take the learnings back to future therapy sessions.

Refer for 1-1 support

Refer clients directly, when you recognise that embodied or touch-based work could support their progress. In return, I am happy to refer clients who could benefit from your expertise in talk therapy.

Collaborative working relationship

For clients who would benefit from a joint approach, we can work together in a closer, collaborative partnership. This allows us to align on goals, share insights, and ensure our methods complement one another, while always centering the client’s wellbeing.

Possible ways of working together

Let’s Connect

If you are a counsellor, psychotherapist, or therapist in Bristol, I would love to start a conversation about how we can support each other’s work. Please reach out, and let’s explore how I can support you as you guide your clients on their healing journey.

Let's have a call

Embodied relational practices for therapists and clients

How do clients benefit from embodied relational practices?

How does the therapeutic process benefit?

Helping you support your clients better

Care and Safety

​My background

1:1 Sessions

Group sessions

Testimonials

First Steps

Possible ways of working together

Let’s Connect

My background