Dear one

Your efforts in seeking support is a significant step in centring your voice and needs. A way to listen to these words, if you prefer, via voice recording. 

I welcome you in whatever brings you here to connect with me.  I am a body-led, neurobiologically-inspired, and culturally affirming trauma therapist. I  believe in our body's profound wisdom and its ability to transform. I trust the intelligence of our expressive and imaginative capacities. I lean into the creative-experiential-psychodramatic-somatic frameworks to scaffold my therapeutic approaches to work with adults.

I have a deep reverence for our emotive-relational and in-body landscape as an encourager of growth, healing and transformation. I am aware that the felt sense of disquiet emerges due to distress, overwhelm and/ or dysregulation that were evoked in pivotal moments in life. 

The sensations of unease in the body-mind-emotions that emerge thereafter are  often experienced as anxiety/depression, chronic pain/migraine, body dislike, fear, low self-esteem, loneliness, guilt/shame, isolation, impulsivity, or self-blame.  

The medical-cognitive-behavioural-psychological frameworks override our (lived) body to classify everything as a dysfunction or disorder. I affirm your adaptive choices (even the unconscious ones) as  creatively coping  with the absences, complications, wounds, ruptures, disruptions, stressors, adversity and/or trauma.

I  hope that in being alongside we can surrender to the implicit ways as a wise ally to navigate the challenging path of traumatic stress embedded in misattunement, developmental history, neglect, abuse and/ or  violence. 

Please consider booking a 15-minute Zoom no-obligation consultation to determine if I can support your therapeutic needs for in-person sessions @ Preston or Bundoora in Melbourne (Narrm).

I like to conclude by sharing the tender words of Rachel Naomi Remen, "reclaiming ourselves usually means coming to recognise and accept that we have in us both sides of everything. We are capable of fear and courage, generosity and selfishness, vulnerability and strength. These things do not cancel each other out but offer us a full range of power and response to life. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world. It is a real world". 

I long for a world when our bodily impulses, emotional imprints, and relational patterns are seen as unique and valuable gifts. 

Namaste & Thank you  

Jaya Narayan (She/Her).