Healing Through the Body:
A Somatic and Energetic Approach
Somatic Energetic Therapy
Deactivating the Body’s Alarm System
Anxiety often acts like an internal alarm system, activated by looping thoughts or unprocessed experiences. By tuning into where this alarm lives in your body—rather than getting stuck in the mind—you can begin to deactivate the signal and soothe your nervous system.This body-first focus helps you reconnect with the part of you that first experienced fear or a lack of safety—often your inner child—and offers the compassion and grounding that was missing at the time.
Returning to Your Authentic Self'
Whether through somatic healing or energy work, our shared intention is always the same: to guide you back to your authentic self. By releasing stored trauma, emotional blocks, and energetic imbalances, you create space for clarity, peace, and presence.True healing invites you to reconnect with your body, your breath, and your energy—so you can move forward with greater freedom, calm, and joy.
Diana Joy
Somatic Therapist and Energy Work
Balmain, Sydney.
Memory doesn’t live only in the brain—it resides in the body and energy field as well. When we experience stress, trauma, anxiety, or fear, our sympathetic nervous system activates the fight, flight, or freeze response. These survival patterns can become embedded not just in the nervous system but also in our muscles, tissues, and energetic centers.
Using a combination of somatic healing and energy work, we gently access and release these stored patterns—bringing deep emotional relief and energetic balance. This integrative process helps you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and return to a more peaceful, aligned state.
I became a therapist after twenty years as a film director. This change was because an odd shift happened in my perception in my mid forties. I began to see energy blocks in the body (literally saw them as shadow) where trauma and negative feelings were held. I found I was able to move these blocks with my hands and breath. I established better flow through the bodies energy system by working directly on these blocks. Sometimes the blocks were held in a tiny muscle in the jaw or on the inside of the knee. A tiny shift could lead to a really big emotional release in my client. I found that when I moved these blocks that people talked about feeling lighter and more positive. It became a standard part of my treatment, particularly for people with anxiety, as they had so much negative fear energy storied in their system.
I was curious about this change in my perception and after working now for ten years, it has been refined and I can feel into the 'story' inside the blocked energy or put my hands on somebody and understand what is 'real going on'.
This has been a real gift for both me and my clients as it can really short cut a process and get to the heart of the matter.
What People Say
:I don't really understand why this works, it just does. Diana puts her hands on me and all sorts of things happen both emotionally and physically. It has made a huge difference to my over-all well-being. I feel lighter, more joyful and it feels like i've left all my baggage behind.
Alice C. - Art Director
Diana has a gift for this work. I can feel the energy moving when her hands are on me and I have these profound emotional releases that seemingly come out of nowhere. It's been the most powerful healing I have ever done.
James R - HR
My anxiety goes away when we do this work. Diana knows exactly where to place her hands and what to do and I walk away in a cloud. Progressively I'm noticing the feeling stick. Thank you Diana.
Martina L - Psychologist