EMBODIED CARING
with Anna Bovo
Somatic Experiencing® & Therapeutic Sessions:
I offer SE® sessions integrating my caring experience as a nurse with somatic neuro-biological approaches to explore the nervous system and its meaning-making.
My therapeutic approach invites self-discovery, emotional resilience, and the power of silence as a pathway to healing. I base my work on the restoration of mind-body connections as well as the body's innate capacity to find its way into self-regulation and trauma healing. You are at the centre of this journey and I will walk alongside you with care, gentle curiosity, and trust in your process.
1:1 Sessions | Somatic Experiencing and Therapeutic Sessions
I offer an initial phone or video call of about 20-30 minutes to get to know each other, explore your needs, and give you space to ask any questions you may have. I usually suggest starting with a set of 4 sessions, which allows you to experience the work and begin to see whether this approach feels supportive for you. Embarking for this journey means gently re-connecting with your body, exploring somatic patterns, beliefs and dis-functional responses that may be keeping you from experiencing Life in a perceived sense of safety, thrive, and freedom. Together, we create a space where your nervous system can gradually soften, where emotions can emerge at their own pace, and where your inner landscape can begin to feel more coherent and grounded. I will invite you to meet your embodied self, facilitating the body's defense responses to return to a state of presence and calm. Over time, this can empower you to build confidence in your own skin, allowing your emotions to emerge, and re-shape the meaning of your own presence and aliveness in the world. I will walk alongside with you as a facilitator to this process of deeper personal connection, resilience, and self-discovery.
​“What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes. Most people don't know this! They think that by not permitting the feeling of their negative ways they make themselves good. On the contrary, that keeps these negatives static, the same from year to year. A few moments of feeling it in your body allows it to change. If there is in you something bad or sick or unsound, let it inwardly be and breathe. That's the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs”
Eugene T. Gendlin
Ready to reconnect with your body’s wisdom?
All of you is welcome in this space
I'd love to hear from you
Anna Bovo (she/her)
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Teaching Fellow in Nursing Studies
School of Health in Social Science
University of Edinburgh
