Somatic Therapy - Sacred Somatic Journeys www.karendesouza.co.uk
There is a space underneath the words I will meet you there
BODY - BREATH - HEART - SOUL
ABOUT
Karen is a Sacred Somatic Journeys Practitioner and a Social Worker. In her private practice she offers therapeutic healing through somatic therapy. Karen's work as a Social Worker has spanned 18 years and includes working within children's and adults services. Karen continues to work within an adult community mental health setting with the NHS. Carrying out assessments and supporting people affected by anxiety, depression, personality disorders and post traumatic stress disorder. Karen has experience of working with individuals on the neurodivergence spectrum, largely ADHD and Autism.
Karen is a nature lover, a singer, a dancer and a yogi. She brings her voice as a conduit for the healing within her sessions. Karen appreciates the rhythms of life and listening to where she is being called in a deeper way to show up, and fully experience her own sacred life and support those to embody their own. She experiences herself as 'a woman of the world'.
QUALIFICATIONS
Sacred Somatic Journeys (certified by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine) - by L'aura Oseland. This modality uses breathwork, touch, sounds and a healing energetic. Karen incorporates inner child work, coaching, guided imagery and compassionate inquiry. Completed modules include, and can be journeys through the embodiment of:
Journey into sacred heart - heart space - compassion, meeting the experience of your heart as it is today and what it has experienced and processed in your own unique journey.
Journey into sacred power - spine, sacrum and pelvis areas - meeting and reclaiming your sense of self, working through blockages, connecting your upper and lower body and moving through shock and fear.
Journey into sacred life - lungs, upper chest, shoulders, pecs and clavicle area - reclaiming what you want for yourself in this life. Witnessing and tending to your grief, in all it's forms. Becoming unhooked from an abuser. Processing birth and early life experiences. Death wishes.
Journey into sacred earth - glutes, thighs and achilleas - connecting deeply to earth energy so that you can walk though this life connected to your heart. There can be an ancestral and past life element to these doorways.
Compassionate Inquiry ® a trauma informed psychotherapeutic approach (certificate)
Trauma Informed Coach by The Centre for Healing (certificate)
Working with Complex Trauma and Dissociation - Enhancing Phase 1 training by NHS complex trauma service
Trauma stabilisation training by NHS
Coping with Voices training provided by the NHS coping with voices clinic
Social Work (BA) Hons
Human Resource Management (MA)
Movement for Trauma (certificate)
Personal Trainer Level 3 (certificate)
Professional Regulations:​
Code of Practice and Ethics of Sacred Somatic Journeys
Social Work Code of Practice
Registered with Social Work England Professional Body
Enhanced DBS Checked
Insured with Balens
