Somatic Psychotherapy · Cowichan Valley & Online
Listening to the wisdom of our bodies
It takes courage to explore one's inner world. I'm Sarah Corrin, a Registered Clinical Counsellor — for twenty years I've worked with people carrying trauma, grief, and patterns that no longer serve them.
No cost, no obligation — a short call to see whether we're a good fit.
Where would you like to begin?
You don't need the right words for it. Start wherever feels closest.
Trauma & chronic stress
Accidents, injury, abuse, or the long weight of living in fight, flight, or freeze. Anxiety, depression, insomnia, pain that no one can explain.
Relationships & attachment
Patterns of pleasing and fawning. Difficulty holding boundaries. Closeness that feels unsafe, or distance that feels lonely.
Sensitivity & intensity
High sensitivity, strong emotion, perfectionism, obsessive thought. A nervous system that takes in more than most.
Embodiment & energy medicine
Breathwork, Therapeutic Touch, and practices of attending to the body's own intelligence — on their own or alongside therapy.
Living with a life-limiting illness
Support for the person facing the end of life, and for the family walking beside them. Trained in psilocybin-assisted therapy for end-of-life distress and end-of-life doula care. If time is short, call directly: 250-213-9993.
What somatic therapy is
Chronic stress and trauma stay in the body. They arrive from personal, ancestral, and collective adversity, and they show up as anxiety, reactivity, pain, complicated grief, insomnia, and a life that has quietly lost its vitality.
Somatic therapy works from the bottom up. Rather than only talking about what happened, we attend to sensation, feeling, image, gesture, and rhythm — the body's own record of your life. As constricted patterns release, the self that was underneath them has room to come forward.
We listen to the truth of our lives as expressed by our bodies.
Nothing here asks you to relive anything. The work moves at the pace your nervous system sets, inside a relationship built to be steady enough to hold it.
About Sarah
I've worked in somatic and trauma therapy for twenty years. My own life has been shaped by the liminal space between living and dying — I cared for a medically complex child for many years — and that has made me unafraid of the hardest rooms.
I bring heart, mind, body, and spirit into the work, along with an interest in the energy medicines of Therapeutic Touch, QiGong, and breathwork, and in the emerging use of psychedelics for trauma and end-of-life care.
Connection is medicine.
- Somatic Transformation — Healing Body-Soul; Relational & Body-Centred Approaches to Trauma
- Safe and Sound Protocol · Systemic Constellation Certificate
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy · Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- TheraPsil — Psilocybin for End-of-Life Distress
- End-of-Life Doula course
- Therapeutic Touch Levels 1–3 · Conscious Connected Breathwork Levels 1–2
- Way of Council Levels 1–2
Practical details
Worth knowing before you call.
- Session fee
- $185 per 50-minute session
- Format
- In person and online
- Who I work with
- Adults, individually
Embodiment as a practice of reclamation.
I work gratefully on the traditional and unceded territory of the Quw'utsun' Peoples. To centre the body as the ground of wellbeing is to take part in reclaiming wisdom, inner healing intelligence, and sovereignty — and to recognise that no body is separate from the relational, ancestral, and natural world it belongs to.
Getting in touch
The first step is a free twenty-minute call. No intake forms, no commitment — we talk, and you decide.