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 over twenty years I've worked with people carrying trauma, grief, and patterns that no longer serve them.
Where would you like to begin?
Start wherever feels closest. We will find the best way through, together, as we go.
Trauma & chronic stress
Accidents, injury, abuse, or the burden of living in fight, flight, or freeze. Anxiety, depression, insomnia, pain that no one can explain. Complex PTSD, complicated grief.
Relationships & attachment
Patterns of pleasing and fawning. Difficulty holding boundaries. Closeness that feels unsafe, or distance that feels lonely. Emotional reactivity.
Sensitivity & intensity
High sensitivity, strong emotion, perfectionism, obsessive thought. A nervous system that takes in more than most.
Embodiment & energy medicine
Breathwork, Qi Gong, and practices of attending to the body's own intelligence — on their own or alongside therapy.
Ageing and end-of-life distress
Reflecting on your life in gentle and honest ways, compassion and forgiveness for self and others, understanding the meaning and purpose of regret, living more fully in the ways that truly matter to you. Facing dying with support. Call directly: 250-213-9993.
What somatic therapy is
The body holds the secrets of your healing as much as it holds the expression of your pain and suffering.
Somatic therapy works from the bottom up — body, heart, and mind. Rather than only talking, we work with the felt sense in your body along the way. By tuning into and working with your sensations, feelings, images, gestures — the body's own record of your life — we access the inner wisdom that is revealed.
Chronic stress and trauma live in the body. They emerge from personal, relational, ancestral and collective adversity. They show up as anxiety, depression, reactivity, pain, complicated grief, complex trauma and a life that has quietly lost its vitality and joy. The patterns of stress, lack of safety, fear, fight, flight, freeze, and overwhelm contribute to chronic mental and physical illnesses.
Within each body there are subtle hints that guide us towards the inner resources needed for growth, healing, and transformation. In somatic therapy, within the context of a safe and attuned relationship, these inner experiences are the very ones that can unlock the constricted patterns wired into the nervous system. As trauma and constricted patterns release, a more authentic and joyful Self can be fully and freely expressed.
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 over twenty years. My own life has been shaped by the liminal space between living and dying, 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 energy modalities, breathwork, nature-based wisdom and the emerging use of consciousness expanding experiences for trauma and end-of-life care.
Connection is medicine.
I offer a genuine, caring and compassionate presence in this journey of facing and exploring one's inner landscape. It can feel frightening to journey into the unknown that is at the heart of the therapeutic process.
It is my life's work and deep privilege to walk alongside those on, what I believe to be, a deeply courageous and sacred path of self-inquiry, healing, growth, and transformation.
Practical details
Worth knowing before you call.
- Session fee
- $185 per 55-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.