Embodied Processing
I am a certified Embodied Processing Practitioner. As part of my mission to help others move towards greater balance and wholeness, I offer Embodied Processing sessions both in person and online. In-person sessions can be combined with my other therapies to create a bespoke treatment plan tailored to your individual needs. The intention behind all of my offerings is to support your body’s natural capacity for healing, helping you reconnect with yourself in a safe, compassionate and empowering way.
What is Embodied Processing?
Embodied Processing is a body-based approach that helps you understand your nervous system and how it influences the way you respond to life’s experiences. It can be used to safely meet and digest the emotional wounds and trauma, that can often be the root cause of many of our surface symptoms. This can bring about deep and lasting change.
Drawing on Jungian psychology, Polyvagal Theory, ancient traditions and a range of established somatic therapies, Embodied Processing supports you in reconnecting with the parts of yourself where stress, trauma and emotion may be held. Rather than focusing only on thoughts, it includes the whole person—body, emotions and nervous system—allowing healing to unfold at a pace that feels safe and manageable.
During each session, I guide you gently into greater awareness of your body’s sensations and signals. Together we explore patterns of nervous system activation, helping you recognise responses such as fight, flight, freeze and fawn, while developing the capacity to regulate these responses with greater ease and resilience. Embodied Processing honours the wisdom of the body, recognising that lasting change often comes through experiencing and processing, rather than simply understanding.
You can learn more about Embodied Processing and the training undertaken by certified practitioners like myself through The Centre for Healing, where I completed my training and with whom I am a registered practitioner. Here is a link: What is Embodied Processing? | The Centre for Healing
How Embodied Processing may help
Embodied Processing may help you to:
- Process and release the effects of trauma and chronic stress held within the body.
- Increase your nervous system’s capacity to experience emotions safely.
- Feel calmer, more grounded and more at home in your body.
- Reduce recurring emotional and behavioural patterns that no longer serve you.
- Improve your ability to connect with yourself and others.
- Develop greater resilience and emotional regulation.
- Feel more vibrant, present within your body and connected to your inner wisdom.
By working with what is happening in the body, rather than pushing through difficult emotions or relying solely on thinking, we create space for meaningful and lasting transformation.
What happens during a session?
Each session follows a carefully paced structure designed to help you feel safe, supported and grounded throughout as follows:
1. Initial consultation
Your first appointment lasts approximately 90 minutes and includes a complimentary 20-minute consultation. This allows us to explore what has brought you to Embodied Processing, what you hope to achieve, and any particular areas you would like to focus on.
Follow-up sessions last 60–70 minutes.
2. Beginning the session
We begin by gently settling into the body through guided awareness and breathwork. This helps quieten the analytical mind and encourages you to connect more deeply with your present experience.
3. Creating a foundation of safety
Together we establish a personal resource for safety using a memory, an imagined place or gentle hand placement. This becomes an anchor that we can return to whenever needed during the session.
4. Exploring the issue
Using the body as our guide, we gently bring awareness to the issue you would like to work with. As sensations arise, we may also notice emotions, images, colours, textures, words or archetypal themes.#
5. Processing
As the underlying patterns begin to emerge, we work with them using Embodied Processing techniques that allow your nervous system to move towards greater regulation and completion. If your nervous system becomes activated through a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response, we work gently within your window of tolerance, ensuring the process remains safe and manageable. My role is to support and guide you throughout, adapting the pace to meet your needs.
6. Integration
Before the session ends, we discuss practical ways you can continue supporting the integration process between appointments. Afterwards, I send you a short summary of the session for your reflection.
Developing your intuition
If this is something that interests you, Embodied Processing can also support you in strengthening your connection with your intuition.
As your sense of safety within the body grows, many people find they are better able to access their innate wisdom and navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity and confidence. We can explore practices that help you deepen this connection and develop trust in your body’s natural guidance.
Book an appointment
If you would like to find out more or book a session, I’d love to hear from you.
Email: info@sarahwyatthealingandgems.uk
Telephone: 07949 661468
Session costs are:
- Individual session: £65
- Block booking of four sessions: £220 (payment required at the time of booking)
- If you book an individual session and decide you want more sessions, the initial session can be included within the block booking so you benefit from the discount. I would recommend a minimum of 4 session to real feel the benefit of Embodied Processing and allow and work through a particular issue.
I look forward to welcoming you to my peaceful garden treatment room, or meeting you online, and supporting you on your journey towards greater balance, resilience and wellbeing.