Dear one

I validate your time here. It  recognises the significance of paying attention to what you may need for yourself. We feel dis-ease, distress and/ or dysregulation at varying moments in life. These may be felt, shaped and experienced as anxiety/depression, chronic pain/migraine, body dislike, fears, low self-esteem, loneliness, guilt/shame, isolation, impulsivity, or self-blame. 

The medical-cognitive-behavioural-psychological frameworks  overrides our (lived) body and categorises everything as a dysfunction or disorder. Instead of saying (to you) that your responses make sense.  

I appreciate your choices (even the unconscious ones) as  the best way you have coped with the absences, complications, wounds, disruptions, stressors and/or trauma which were perhaps embedded in misattunement, developmental history, neglect, abuse and/ or  violence.

Lets honour your biology and its adaptive expressions. Our bodily impulses, biological imprints, emotional residues, implicit meanings, and relational ways are ingenious treasures. They illuminate  the arduous terrain of navigating  traumatic stress. By appreciating our emotive landscape and fostering in-body curiosity, we can experience transformation.

Namaste. My name is Jaya Narayan (She/Her). I am a body-led, neurobiology-inspired, and culturally affirming trauma therapist. I trust the wisdom of our expressive and imaginative body to resource female-identifying adults. I lean into the creative-experiential-psychodramatic approaches, somatic frameworks, and relationality to scaffold the therapeutic approaches. 

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

I like to pause here and emphasise a favourite quote by Ben Okri, "the most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering".

I see you. You matter.