Lindsay Somatics

Lindsay is a Lancaster based Somatic Therapist with 25 years of experience who offers one-to-one therapy sessions, workshops, courses and Mentoring in person and online.

Lindsay Etchells MA RSME/RSMT SEP

Integrative Psychotherapist, Somatic Movement Facilitator Educator and Therapist,Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (Body-Oriented Trauma Therapist) Body worker, and a dancer since forever.

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being….
We are here to become more and more ourselves.¨
James Hollis

In my therapeutic work, I often meet the limits of language. A client might say, “I don’t know why I feel this way,” or “I’ve talked about it so much, but something still feels stuck.” This is where somatics becomes an essential companion—inviting us to explore not just what happened, but how it lives on in the body.

Somatic practices help us attend to the parts of ourselves that didn’t get to speak—because they were overwhelmed, because they were too young, or because they were trying to keep us safe. These parts don’t always show up in words. They show up in a clenched jaw, a frozen breath, a collapse in the chest, a quiet feeling of devastation and being alone. The body remembers, and it communicates in sensation, emotion, posture and movement.

Working somatically doesn’t mean abandoning our thoughts—it means widening the conversation. It means asking not just “What do you think?” but also “What do you notice?” and “Where do you feel that?” We begin to listen for what the body knows, what it holds, and what it longs to express.

This isn’t about analyzing the body like a puzzle, or mastering it like a project. It’s about cultivating presence—moment by moment—with whatever arises. It’s about meeting the hidden parts of ourselves with attunement, patience, and care.

In doing so, healing doesn’t always look like insight. Sometimes it looks like a deep breath that wasn’t possible before. A softening. A choice. A reclaiming.