Moving Towards the Light – Saying Yes to Everything as Life Unfolds – Healing Deeply Held Unprocessed Trauma & Defensive Responses That Keep Us Out of Connection – Allowing in Unconditional Love and Care Towards the Body – Feeling Free to Be Fully Yourself.

January 17, 2023

As each day of the new year unfolds, we are slowly, softly moving towards the light of the spring – planting seeds and engaging in renewal.

The body is a doorway. Touch, our very first language, can access the deepest layers of our earliest experience. This is an invitation towards tenderness, healing – a combination of touch, bodywork, somatic healing, movement, mother/father wound healing and a relational process – allowing everything to change about how we feel and show up in the world.

Learn to rest into the gentle nature of presence – reconnecting to ourselves and moving away from chaos and agitation. When we allow ourselves to go slowly and take the space we need to heal our nervous system responses and deeply held toxic stress, we are teaching our bodies to orient to safety. We can transcend inherited family trauma patterns, so that our energy that can flow more freely within our bodies and we can feel more alive, bright, coherent and free.

As we grow and develop, our bodies become adapted to difficulties and begin to use survival strategies and self-protective management responses to survive. Many of us feel chronic feelings of anxiety, depression, panic, an inability to stay present in relationships, chronic pain, stress and a restlessness – draining our feelings of aliveness and vitality. We will teach your body to feel safer – slowly and tenderly – now and always – and create more regulation in your nervous system.

Heal deeply from within from what is limiting you and unlock what is true for you- no matter what’s happening around you.

We are wired to protect ourselves. When our brains perceive a threat in our environment, we automatically go into one of the three stress response modes, freeze, flight or fight. From an evolutionary standpoint, these responses have served us well by allowing us to respond quickly to threats and get ourselves safety. For those living with unresolved trauma, the threat never feels like it has gone away, leaving them “stuck” in a chronic stress response.

I work with clients to help move them out chronic overwhelm and nervous system dysregulation resulting from a traumatic event and/or from early developmental trauma – so they can move back into connection with their bodies, other people, and their own lives. I do this using therapeutic co-regulating touch – a beautiful, natural and highly effective combination of Somatic Experiencing, Kathy Kain’s Touch Skills for Trauma, Stephen Terrell’s Transforming Touch and Somatic Resilience and Regulation, and Aline La Pierre’s Neuroaffective Touch.

The true nature of who we are includes everything with no resistance. It offers a continual deep and open “yes” to everything that appears as life unfolds.

This natural deep acceptance is profoundly healing to the pain of our early trauma patterns. These patterns of fear and suppression develop from disruption in our relationships early on in life—with ourselves and others. Although everyone is doing their best, we just don’t get the unconditional love, presence and care we needed to feel free to be fully ourselves.

What is needed to discover our essential wholeness is ongoing unconditional acceptance of all parts of ourselves. And this is just what is offered by the natural alive aware being of who we are. As we stand here in this openness, we find the loving space to hold these painful residues from the past. As these parts absorb into this love, their tension relaxes, and we come home, more and more, to live in daily life as a vast field of unconditional acceptance.

We’ll enter into a field of love—for ourselves and others. Opening to everything.

Together, we lovingly embrace our humanness as we expand into overflowing appreciation and deep connection with all of life.

Come back home to yourself.

When you come to realize the truth of who you are, trust it, and step into it with purpose & confidence, your whole life heals in magnificent ways. 

You know deep down that your body is the key to deep healing.

I see you. You’ve tried to improve your situation, but you still feel confused, overwhelmed, frustrated.

You want to find peace & joy within you, but doubts and fears keep you from figuring out how to attain it.

Other people’s emotions affect you greatly, and their judgements even more.

You have a good life, but something’s missing. You are hoping for better health, more engaged relationships, more energy, aliveness and passion for your work and life. You know you’re meant to feel better, you know you’re meant for more. And you wonder whether what you feel is truly valid.

It seems there’s some secret everyone else knows about that you haven’t figured out.

You don’t need fixing. You are not broken.
You have everything you need within yourself.

It starts with integrative relational somatic body-focused healing and shedding limiting beliefs & conditioning that you’ve been carrying around from your early life experiences.

The messages from society that made you believe there’s something you need to “fix”.

You’re getting a sense these messages and conditioned ways of thinking aren’t serving you—but rather holding you back from the life you know you’d truly like to experience.

And you’re ready to move them so you can choose a different path for yourself, now, and going forward.

When you do, your relationship with yourself transforms.

With a level of self-compassion & self-trust that changes how you see yourself & everything around you.

You know who you are and what you want, and even more importantly, what you don’t want, and you feel comfortable creating  and communicating healthy boundaries that improve the dynamics of all of your relationships, including with yourself.

As a result, you feel more ease and joy. You feel at peace with yourself in a way you never considered possible.

When this happens, you will see the healing beyond what you’ve been able to experience before; with all the other things you’ve tried: body, health, relationships, and life in general.

And then your external world changes. People show up for you differently, careers feel more fulfilling, and opportunities unfold in ways you never even considered possible.

Here’s what you’ll experience on your journey back to yourself:

Nervous System Healing & Regulation

Before we can do anything else, it’s important to give your nervous system an experience of safety, to provide moments of ease, and improve nervous system flexibility so that you will be able to feel more resilient. This creates a strong foundation for everything else to build on.

Healing Mother & Father Relational Wounding

Discover who you really are on the inside and uncover your true needs and desires. Meet your younger part and find out what you’ve really wanted all along….you might be surprised what you uncover through this supportive, gentle process. Then, through a step-by-step process that involves inner mothering and compassionate listening, beginning to give yourself the things you always wanted, so that you can feel better, from within.

Making Connections Within

Understand the layers of conditioning that have impacted your beliefs, emotions, and behaviours, and how it’s affected all aspects of your life.

Seeing these connections delivers “aha” moments of clarity. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it, and it’s the starting point to creating effective, lasting, meaningful change.

Softening Layers of Conditioning & Healing Inherited Family Trauma

Softening layers of conditioning that have been keeping you stuck and holding you back. Create new perspectives and beliefs. Begin to feel lighter and freer in body, mind, and soul. This is the beginning of your inner awakening and life-changing transformation.

Heal Your Relationship with Yourself

Once you uncondition yourself from external beliefs, this sets the stage for you to develop deep, compassionate love, trust, and acceptance of yourself. You come to realize just how magnificent you truly are, and it changes absolutely everything.

Meet the hidden parts that you may not have fully accepted, and once you understand their benefits, you’ll make peace & befriend with every single aspect of yourself. When you heal your relationship with you, it sets the foundation for everything else in your life to heal, grow, and flourish, including relationships with everyone else.

Reset Your Inner Compass

Explore how you truly want your health, relationships, career, purpose, and entire life to unfold, now, and going forward, now that you are moving out of survival mode. Design your own unique blueprint for life so that you can create the present and future you truly desire and reset your inner compass to what’s true for you. Learn how to decode the language of your inner guidance system so that you trust yourself and your intuition.

Tap into Your Flowing Energy and Aliveness

Magnify your inner potential and purpose and watch your well-being, relationships, career, and entire life evolve in ways you’ve never imagined. Celebrate with excitement how your life is now unfolding. Live your life filled with confidence, inner trust and purpose, and feel fully rooted in your centre with deep resilience and strength.

Heal the long-held relational and somatic patterns held in your body so you can feel calm and more confident, no matter what’s happening around you. Come home to yourself and shed the layers of conditioning that kept you from seeing the magic you have within yourself.

What You’ll Develop and Improve:

  • Nervous system regulation
  • Emotional resilience
  • Understanding of self & sense of identity
  • Mindful awareness
  • Body awareness
  • Self love & compassion
  • Inherited family trauma & early developmental trauma healing
  • Healthy boundaries
  • Intuition & inner knowing
  • Awakening to your inner power
How You’ll Benefit:

  • Greater energy & mental clarity
  • Softening of physical conditions & symptoms
  • Improved health and decreased pain in your body
  • Higher self-esteem & self-worth
  • More stable mood
  • Less toxic stress and more inner resilience, no matter what’s happening around you
  • Self-trust that you have the answers within you
  • Healthier, richer relationships with yourself & everyone around you
  • Feelings of self-empowerment, confidence, freedom, joy, fulfillment, purpose, and greater ease in life
  • New perspectives that will change everything, in magnificent ways

What to Expect During a Whole Body Health Somatic Practice –
Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma Session

For true emotional and physical healing, we can’t leave our body and how it feels and responds, out of the process. Each person needs something very specific in their healing journey, which is why it is so important to have a customized approach with sessions that are specifically tailored for you – a combination of emotionally-focused psychotherapy and body-focused Transforming Touch, Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma.

Your body doesn’t have energy – it is energy. When we allow traumatic stress that is contained in our nervous system to begin to move through our system – flow begins to happen in our body and we feel more energetic, grounded, healthy and alive.

We explore our fluid bodies through the language of sensation, co-regulating touch,and  subtle movement. We have the opportunity of allowing time to slow down, to notice, let go and shed that which needs to shed, and to come through anew and refreshed.

For those who would like to focus on a body-focused, somatic approach, we begin by talking about your background, symptoms and history. We do this online and or in-person by sitting in chairs across from each other or you lie on your back on a table. When you are sitting in a chair, we can do some talk therapy, and you may also be asked if you are open to closing your eyes and noticing your feelings, emotions and body sensations that are happening for you in each moment.

For those who would like to do Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma Session – sessions consist of lying on a table with eyes closed – and I offer touch on several areas of the body: the head, stress organs, the belly, and joints in the body.

Therapeutic Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma is a gentle, backed-by-science method that enables qualified practitioners to work safely and ethically with the emotions stored in the tissues and organs of the body. It works to unlock and release emotional pain buried in the body, sometimes since before we born, in-utero, our early childhood and all way up to present day adult experience.

Using touch, we reset complex physiological systems and help harmonize energy flow in a person’s body. Often, we restore what was missing in the early years. Touch can give a client greater awareness of their body’s sensations and the ability to get to know themselves better from the inside out.

Bringing a compassionate presence to the body is another essential part of healing. It helps address the neural numbing, muscular bracing, and autonomic disorganization that are physiological by-products of grief, shame, anger, and fear.

Therapeutic touch works to heal the nervous system by providing an avenue for the body to process deep-rooted trauma and facilitate self-actualization. Through gentle, attuned touch, we can help to rebuild an underdeveloped nervous system that has been negatively impacted by early trauma.

Sessions are done fully clothed. Each session is one-hour, unless we are doing an extended session – and is unique depending on what you are experiencing on that day and would like to focus on during a session – we want to tune in and understand what’s really going on in your body – beyond pathology and diagnoses – to allow your body to move into a flow state, rather than to remain stuck in a stress response state – during the session and in the hours and days afterwards.

Somatic Approaches You’ll Experience:

  • A blend of scientific, research-based perspectives along with eastern-focused philosophies & approaches, such as Buddhist principles and perspectives from Somatic Experiencing (SE), Craniosacral Therapy, Feldenkrais, Breathwork, Movement Therapy, Body-Mind Centering
  • Transforming Co-Regulating Touch Practice
  • Somatic Resilience & Regulation
  • Primitive Reflex Integration
  • Inner child healing & compassionate inner re-parenting
  • Shadow integration
  • Intuition growth & development
  • Breathwork for somatic & subconscious rewiring
  • Dietary strategies to improve efficacy of the above approaches

This work is support for you to feel more ease through deep embodiment, the immense gifts of slowing way down, how to lovingly hold and transform your story and become a master of our nervous system.

Our early developmental and attachment wounding is a wound with life itself. To an infant, our attachment with our mother is everything – our very experience of ourselves and of the world was filtered through the body and psyche of our mother.

As you heal, you begin to feel your core as goodness; to deeply know that you belong, to feel a oneness with life. You can feel an unshakeable love in your heart that becomes a stable background in your life. The greater empathy and compassion you feel for yourself extends to all beings and the earth itself.

I hold you with kindness, deep respect and space to be with you as you are. This deep presence will shift our felt sense experience of whole body mental and physical health care. My approach is open, spacious and flexible. I look forward to inviting you in to my space.

Who would you be if you felt nourished and loving towards yourself every day?
Say ‘yes’ to what feels nourishing, joyful and expansive.  Be ever so gentle with your heart.

I look forward to being with you.

all my love this year and always, Kim xoxoxo
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Whole Body Mental Health & Well-Being from the Inside Out.
Deep healing at the level of the nervous system enables you to explore and expand your inner landscape where self – confidence and inner agency reside. When you heal your nervous system, you can more readily access deeper ways of knowing and being that include intuition, imagination, sensuality, and the subtle body of emotions.

Get in touch to learn more about working with me – [email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)+
Co-Regulating Touch Trauma Resolution Bodywork = Somatic Healing

The POLYVAGAL THEORY – SAFE & SOUND PROTOCOL OFFERING – The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) is an auditory listening intervention for adults and children – using headphones – that is intended to accelerate the effectiveness of other modalities by preparing each person’s emotional and physiological state. Dr. Stephen Porges (developer of The Safe & Sound Protocol & of The Polyvagal Theory) explains that we need a calm autonomic/physiological state for health, growth and restoration, and achieving this becomes the foundation of an effective therapy. 

The Safe & Sound Protocol is a way to support a change  in your physiological state; opening the system to further neural change and improvement for other therapies that follow. The process is designed to reduce stress and auditory sensitivity while enhancing social engagement and resilience. The intervention uses prosodic vocal music that has been filtered to train the middle ear muscles to focus in on the frequency envelope of human speech. You’ll find you are better able to feel calm – less chronically stressed and/or anxious.  Clients who have experienced long-held trauma and are healing from PTSD, troubling chronic health concerns, chronic pain and troubling chronic emotional responses, can experience an increased sense of safety in their physiological state.

HEART HEALING SESSIONS – Heart healing sessions are all about you, your path and healing. These can be monthly sessions or several sessions scheduled over a period of days to support you along your healing path.

My clients love this work, it is nourishing and gentle. It is wonderful for healing early developmental trauma, attachment repair and shifting to a more regulated place where the heart can freely open into abundance.

You may want to schedule these sessions as a focused time for letting go of all that you healing. Heart Healing sessions consist of combining several sessions over a short period of time. They are a great way to get out of your daily routine and be immersed in healing. We may meet for multiple sessions per day over a period of days. Since you will be out of your typical routine, this will give plenty of time for integration of the work and healing.

The Heart Healing Sessions are held in my office in Markham. You can schedule between several sessions over a period of days. Since this work is done away from your typical day to day life, integration of the work is deep and truly transformative.

I am sending softness, gentleness and love from my heart to yours. May you slow down and receive the wisdom your body is seeking to share with you breath by breath.

Let’s plan your sessions in advance – if you are interested in scheduling or have questions, please get in touch and we will make a plan for your visit.[email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

OTHER Offerings – 90-Minute In-Person SOMATIC HEALING SESSION. Allow yourself to slow down and experience deep healing. 30 minutes – Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma – Somatic & Psycho-Spiritual Process – 30 minutes – The Safe & Sound Listening Protocol – 30 minutes – Nurture Surround healing process – feeling supported on the table with weighted blankets, soft pillows and bean bags on your body – you choose what is most comfortable for you – providing soft, nurturing care – feeling supported and held – with choice. We will take time to attune to your body’s core needs and comfort at a deep level. Your needs are important. I will use a variety of touch skills with you – and invite you to place a hand wherever you would like to on your body – and to pause, slow down and notice what you feel.

Using mind-body skills to stabilize your nervous system – befriending, grounding, slowing down, tracking and resourcing. We will listen to your body’s narrative while utilizing body-mind emotion dialogue. We will explore biological survival strategies and process historical trauma by creating moment-to-moment interpersonal experiences of safe connection. We will utilize non-cognitive senses of relational connection – auditory, visual, movement, and touch – co-creating manageable ways to defuse internal feelings of pressure, anxiety and stress.

NEW – SOMATIC MENTORING – I am now welcoming therapists, health care professionals, healers, coaches, bodyworkers and anyone who resonates with my work; who would like to have open space to explore how early developmental, prenatal and intergenerational trauma lives in their bodies  – explore somatic blocks to expansion, heal chronic anxiety, illness and pain patterns, and have an open space to explore the deepest parts of yourself in relation to yourself, your work, your life and your relationships with others. This work happens on the table, in-person and online via Zoom.
Let’s explore together – [email protected]

THE COUPLES SESSIONS – Awaken in Relationship – Being Present to the Relational Wounding and the Pain We Carry – Ongoing Bi-Weekly or Monthly Sessions for Couples (online or in-person) – Learn to Process Deeply Held Emotion, check-in with each other regularly and learn to communicate from the heart and to connect deeply with one another again or for the first time.

1) Be with Relational Wounding when it shows up in your relationship
2) Be with and face Hot Button issues when they arise and cause conflict
3) Take 100% responsibility for yourself in your relationship.

Our feelings, bodily sensations and relational patterns are clues to what is being held in the unconscious – so we must be present to them. Conflict can give us the opportunity to awaken out of the conditioning that we are a separate, disconnected self.  Get in touch to learn more and work together – [email protected] – www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

HEALING CODEPENDENT PATTERNS IN RELATIONSHIPS – healing through the body for codependent patterns in relationships – healing from resentment, blame, shame and addictive patterns – nurturing your inner child – learning your needs in relationships – and finding ease in the body, mind and heart for longstanding conditioned patterns.

HEALING FAMILY TRAUMA IMPRINT – 90-minute – in-person or online Zoom session – an opportunity to get to the roots of intergenerational trauma patterns & begin a path towards relational & relationship healing.

DISCOVER YOUR INNER MOTHER– Healing the Mother Wound – uncover your hidden family dynamics and trauma history – this is an opportunity to strengthen your internal relationship with your inner your self – as well as your mother, father and extended family – in ways that contribute to healing – get in touch to schedule an online or in-person session – [email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

SESSIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES – Relational Neurobiological Somatic Healing -an Embodied invitation for you – to slow down and feel the strength of a supportive resource, move beyond blame and notice how our nervous system states inform our interactions with our partner, feel present in your body, to unwind patterns of anxiety, depression, anger, hopelessness, chronic stress & pain, trauma, regulate your nervous system, to cultivate trust in your moment-to-moment experience, your naturally wise heart, and your capacity to connect to yourself, those you love and the love that surrounds us.

Somatic Body Learning & Practice and Somatic Experiencing Trauma Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma sessions are available for you now. Waking you up to Somatic Resilience & Regulation – the innate wisdom of your body, healing inherited, ancestral and pre & peri natal trauma patterns, feeling yourself below the level of thought, and accessing your full beingness in flowing, fluid motion.

Get in touch to learn more about The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP), Embodied Recovery, Nurture Surround & Family Systems Imprint Sessions & Individual Body-Focused Therapy Sessions, and Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma, NeuroAffective Touch – The Anxiety, Stress & Trauma Restorative Clinic – in-person  and/or online – and to set up a time to work together:   [email protected]

The Anxiety, Stress & Trauma Restorative Clinic:
Creating Well-Being Through Nervous System Regulation.
Heal Relational Trauma – Break the Cycle of Inherited Family Trauma.
Nurturing Connection, Restoration & Building Resilience.
Easing the Body ~ Calming the Mind ~ Opening the Heart.
Somatic Experiencing ~ Somatic Practices ~ Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma ~ Movement Practices ~ Whole Body Systems Approach for Healing Inflammation.

  • Move Energy Through Body – Movement & Breathwork – discover energetic awareness and simplicity.
  • Sensory Awareness … becoming more in touch with oneself and the world.
  • Somatic Reclaiming … re-integrating the body/mind/spirit.
  • Pre and Perinatal Therapies … consciousness begins before birth.
  • Somatic Experiencing … resolving shock and trauma.
  • Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy … helping restore integrity in our living organism.
  • Relational Therapy … awareness in therapy; awareness in life.
  • Autonomic Nervous System Mapping – learning about what happens for you in different areas of your nervous system

Somatic Healing work can be done effectively online, as well as in person – online sessions are available for those who would prefer not to come in to the office at this time, for those who live far away from the office, or prefer to work from your own home – [email protected]

Working together enables everyone who is willing to do the work an opportunity to decrease feelings of anxiety, pain, depression, chronic stress, pain or illness – as well decrease the chatter in the mind, and ground your mind and body with the depth of the intelligence found in the body. Experience lasting somatic transformation and feelings of calm, peace and wholeness – within your own body and within your relationships.

You will learn to feel and by doing so, you will move towards whole body health and well-being that you can feel within you.

[email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

Feedback from a recent client:

Before I started working with Kim, I was feeling lost in life. I also struggled with depression, feared change, and had bouts of anxiety. I desperately wanted to change and improve my life in order to live feeling calm and peaceful.

I was surprised about how much personal growth and healing that happened while working with Kim. The process I went through helped me come home to myself with confidence and compassion for myself.

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When I came to you I felt confused, disconnected and broken. Now, I'm on my way to feeling whole. Thank you.
Kim Cochrane
2016-10-06T10:59:12-04:00
When I came to you I felt confused, disconnected and broken. Now, I'm on my way to feeling whole. Thank you.

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I’m so glad I’m giving myself space to explore what’s happening in my life and to understand my feelings.
Kim Cochrane
2016-10-06T10:59:51-04:00
I’m so glad I’m giving myself space to explore what’s happening in my life and to understand my feelings.

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I've wanted to do this for a while and I'm so glad I did - I trust myself more now, I feel more calm and open - working together has changed the course of my life.

Kim Cochrane
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I've wanted to do this for a while and I'm so glad I did - I trust myself more now, I feel more calm and open - working together has changed the course of my life.
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