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Somatic Practice, Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen

For new clients, a free 15/20 minute consultation call is required before our first session together. 

This can be a space to ask any questions you might have, for your therapist to provide more information on what to expect in sessions and to make sure this will be a good fit for you!

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A body-oriented, talking therapy that recognizes the importance of the therapist-client relationship, and incorporates the body into clinical practice as an avenue for discovery and healing. Your therapist will take an approach that builds on traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body as central. Sessions include both 'top-down' (talk) and 'bottom-up' (body) processing of relational wounds, emotions and cognitions, informed by your therapists training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Body-Mind Centering, polyvagal theory, Parts/IFS, Narrative Therapy, and Emotion-Focused therapy. Through collaborative approach to treatment planning between therapist and client, sessions may include mindful movement experiments, guided visualization, the use of consensual somatic touch, and expressive art. Your therapist takes a relational and person-centered approach, meeting you where your at each session and beginning from there.


For New Clients: If we haven’t worked together yet, please schedule a free consultation before booking any sessions.

Somatic Therapy (in-person)

A body-oriented, talking therapy that recognizes the importance of the therapist-client relationship, and incorporates the body into clinical practice as an avenue for discovery and healing. Your therapist will take an approach that builds on traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body as central. Sessions include both 'top-down' (talk) and 'bottom-up' (body) processing of relational wounds, emotions and cognitions, informed by your therapists training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Body-Mind Centering, polyvagal theory, Parts/IFS, Narrative Therapy, and Emotion-Focused therapy. Through collaborative approach to treatment planning between therapist and client, sessions may include mindful movement experiments, guided visualization, the use of consensual somatic touch, and expressive art. Your therapist takes a relational and person-centered approach, meeting you where your at each session and beginning from there.

Virtual session take place over Zoom.

For New Clients: If we haven’t worked together yet, please schedule a free consultation before booking any sessions.

Somatic Therapy (virtual)

Personalized guidance and support in your journey of belonging with your body-mind.

These sessions focus on supporting you in building your own practice for embodiment through guided somatic movement exercises and explorations. These session offer a place for diving into your own embodied practice, in a supportive container, to explore the body systems (nervous, endocrine, fluids, fascia/ligaments, bones, muscles, senses & perception, etc) and to increase neuroception and the felt sense. These sessions aim to help you foster a new way of relating to your body-mind, one that is slow, present and attuned to support nervous system regulation. Through collaborative approach to treatment planning between therapist and client, sessions may include psychoeducation, guided self-touch or consenual & boundaried therapeutic touch, gentle movement, yoga, breathwork, visualization and mindfulness. Your therapist takes a relational and person-centered approach, meeting you where your at each session and beginning from there.

For New Clients: If we haven’t worked together yet, please schedule a free consultation before booking any sessions.

Somatic Movement & Embodiment Coaching (in-person)

Personalized guidance and support in your journey of belonging with your body-mind.

These sessions focus on supporting you in building your own practice for embodiment through guided somatic movement exercises and explorations. These session offer a place for diving into your own embodied practice, in a supportive container, to explore the body systems (nervous, endocrine, fluids, fascia/ligaments, bones, muscles, senses & perception, etc) and to increase neuroception and the felt sense. These sessions aim to help you foster a new way of relating to your body-mind, one that is slow, present and attuned to support nervous system regulation. Through collaborative approach to treatment planning between therapist and client, sessions may include psychoeducation, guided self-touch or consenual & boundaried therapeutic touch, gentle movement, yoga, breathwork, visualization and mindfulness. Your therapist takes a relational and person-centered approach, meeting you where your at each session and beginning from there.

Virtual sessions take place over Zoom.

For New Clients: If we haven’t worked together yet, please schedule a free consultation before booking any sessions.

Somatic Movement & Embodiment Coaching (virtual)

In these sessions, sound is the primary means of facilitating relaxation and healing. The consistent and repetitive nature of the sounds can help the brain shift from a state of high-frequency brainwaves (like beta waves associated with active thinking) to lower frequencies (such as alpha, theta, or delta waves), which are linked to relaxation, meditation, and deep restorative sleep.

Instruments used in sound baths create a range of frequencies that resonate with different parts of the body and mind, potentially bringing them into balance. Instruments your practitioner will use in these sessions include crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, chimes, and other resonant tools.

During the sound bath you will lie down or sit comfortably while the facilitator plays the instruments, creating layers of sound frequencies that wash over the body and mind.

In-person sessions only.

For New Clients: If we haven’t worked together yet, please schedule a free consultation before booking any sessions.

Soundbath

Sessions are focused on supporting individuals and families during the perinatal period (before conception, during pregnancy and postpartum/4th trimester). This type of counselling addresses the emotional, psychological, and social aspects of the perinatal journey, helping parent(s) navigate the complex changes and challenges associated with this life stage. Includes support processing loss, grief, changing family dynamics, and new relationships to self/other, with many more themes and topics to be explored as needed. Gender & 2SLGBTQ+ affirmative!

Childbirth education can be incorporated into sessions which can include labour and birth preparation/consultation around what to expect during the birthing process and beyond!

For New Clients: If we haven’t worked together yet, please schedule a free consultation before booking any sessions.

Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen

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New Clients

$155.00

Somatic Psychotherapy

$155.00

Somatic Psychotherapy

$155.00

Somatic Movement & Embodiment Coaching

$155.00

Somatic Movement & Embodiment Coaching

$170.00

Sound Meditation

$155.00

Perinatal Counselling & Childbirth Education

$155.00

Perinatal Counselling & Childbirth Education

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Somatic Practice, Mary-Dora Bloch-Hansen