Bio & Introduction to Somatic Counselling
About Sarah
Twenty years in somatic and trauma therapy, bringing heart, mind, body and spirit into the work.
It takes courage to explore one’s inner world. Therapy can be a supportive process — structure and guidance in letting go of cognitive, emotional or behavioural patterns that are no longer wanted or useful.
It is only through a caring and compassionate relationship that we mend and tend the challenges inherent in daily living, especially the overwhelm of traumatic experience — when we have been left alone with our fear in times of too much, too fast, too soon, and too little. A good fit between client and therapist is therefore essential to the work that takes place.
Connection is medicine.
My own life has been shaped by living in the liminal spaces of life and death, caring for a medically complex child for many years. I bring an interest in embodiment — mindful attention to the wisdom of the body — and an attunement to the energetic and emotional patterns we carry, as a way to reach the inner healing intelligence in each of us.
I’m drawn to the teachings of the land, waters and plants of the Quw’utsun’ lands, to the energy medicines of Therapeutic Touch, QiGong and breathwork, and to the emerging field of psychedelics for trauma and end-of-life care.
It is my passion and joy to walk alongside people on this path of authenticity, learning and growth — as witness and guide in doing this sacred work together.
What somatic psychotherapy is
In somatic therapy, change and healing emerge from bottom-up, right-brain ways of knowing. We listen to the truth of our lives as expressed by our bodies.
Through skills of perceiving and attending to sensation, feeling, image, dream, gesture and innate rhythm, we reach the natural wisdom and healing already present. As constricted emotional and psychological patterns release, the authentic self emerges more fully.
Working with both the left-brain story (thought, logic, concept, belief) and the right-brain story (sensation, gesture, feeling, emotion, imagery), we arrive at meaning, purpose, and freedom from the constricted patterning in our nervous systems.
Education, training and experience
Relevant for referring practitioners, and for anyone who wants to know what stands behind the work.
Sarah Corrin, RCC
Registered Clinical Counsellor · BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
Somatic Transformation — Healing Body-Soul
Somatic Transformation — Relational and Body-Centred Approaches to Healing Trauma
Safe and Sound Protocol
Systemic Constellation Certificate
Conscious Connected Breathwork, Levels 1 and 2
Therapeutic Touch, Levels 1, 2 and 3
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
TheraPsil — Psilocybin for End-of-Life Distress
End-of-Life Doula Course
Way of Council, Levels 1 and 2
Neufeld Institute — Power to Parent, Alpha Children
LIFE Seminars — Side-Stepping the Power Struggle
Kim John Payne — Simplicity Parenting
Embodiment as a process of decolonisation.
As a somatic therapist I am committed to centring the body as the prime locus of therapeutic attention. I understand an individual’s body as sovereign, and also as inseparable from the relational, community, collective, natural and ancestral networks it is embedded within. To centre the body and embodiment as the foundations of individual and collective wellbeing is to engage in acts of decolonisation and reclamation — of truth, of wisdom, of inner healing intelligence, and of sovereignty.
I do this work gratefully while living on the traditional and unceded territory of the Quw’utsun’ Peoples, where I live with my family and attempt to grow food — and not just for the deer.
Start with a conversation
A free twenty-minute call, no obligation either way.