Deena Deemas
Trauma & Relationship Healing
What is Somatic work?
Most approaches work from the top down through insight, thinking, or behaviour, while your reactions are driven by the nervous system, automatically.
This work doesn’t try to convince you to think differently.
It works at the level where those reactions actually start.
This isn’t mindset work or positive thinking.
It’s based on how the nervous system changes through direct experience, not explanation.
When the body learns safety, regulation, and completion, responses shift on their own without forcing, analysing, or “doing more work.”
Somatic work helps heal trauma by changing how your body responds — not by reliving the past. When your system shifts, your experience of life shifts with it.
What is Trauma?
Trauma isn’t always one big, life-shattering event.
Sometimes, it’s quiet. Repetitive. Invisible to others.
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Trauma isn’t always one big, life-shattering event.
Sometimes, it’s quiet. Repetitive. Invisible to others.
Trauma can come from:
• Years of emotional neglect — where no one asked how you were really doing
• Growing up without emotional or physical safety — where you had to stay small, quiet, or perfect to be loved
• Birth trauma or postpartum pain — when a beautiful moment was also overwhelming, violating, or terrifying
• Medical trauma — surgeries, chronic illness, or painful procedures that left your body in fear
• Toxic relationships — where you were constantly walking on eggshells, doubting yourself, or gaslit into silence
• Betrayal by people you trusted — that left a scar you couldn’t explain, but could always feel
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Trauma Lives in the Body
You might look “fine” on the outside…
but inside, trauma can show up in ways you might not even realize.
Some of those ways look like:
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• Anxiety, irritability, or emotional numbness
• Trouble sleeping, resting, or relaxing
• Chronic body pain that's unexplained
• Chronic headaches
• Overthinking and second-guessing every decision
• Emotional shutdowns or sudden outbursts you don’t fully understand
• Avoiding intimacy
• Feeling stuck, drained, or disconnected from who you really are
• Repeating the same toxic cycles in love, work, or family
• Difficulty setting boundaries — or guilt when you try
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These aren’t personality flaws.
They are protective responses.
Your nervous system has learned to stay in survival mode because at some point, it needed to.
In my work, we start by creating that safety through the nervous system.We use somatic tools, attachment work, and trauma-informed practices to gently release what’s been stuck, and reconnect you to calm, clarity, and who you truly are.
If you’re ready to stop just surviving — and start feeling like you again…I’m here to walk with you.
Healing Trauma with Somatic Therapy
Healing using Coaching & Somatic Experiencing
I use Somatic Experiencing® and coaching to help you change the patterns shaped by trauma.
By working with the body’s responses and bringing clarity to what’s keeping you stuck, this work supports real, lasting change—so you can feel more settled, connected, and able to move forward with your life.
How Does It Work?
Somatic Experiencing® works by helping the nervous system gently complete stress responses that were interrupted by trauma.
As the body learns that the danger has passed, symptoms like anxiety, shutdown, and reactivity naturally begin to soften.
What is it?
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-based therapy that helps the nervous system recover from stress and trauma by restoring its ability to regulate.
You use it by gently tracking sensations in the body, allowing safety and regulation to return without reliving or analysing the past.
Benefits of Somatic Therapy
Somatic Experiencing® therapy is a body-based approach to trauma that focuses on restoring the nervous system’s ability to regulate after stress or threat. Research shows that trauma symptoms are maintained not only by memory, but by ongoing physiological activation in the body. By gently working with bodily sensations, SE helps the nervous system complete interrupted stress responses, reduce hyperarousal or shutdown, and regain a sense of safety. Over time, this leads to decreased trauma symptoms, improved emotional regulation, and a greater capacity for connection and resilience.