Trauma recovery that starts with the body, not the story
One-to-one and small-group, trauma-sensitive sessions with a certified Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) facilitator, online or in person if you’re in London. You don’t have to talk about what happened.
WHO THIS IS FOR
I work with adults living with the long-term effects of PTSD, chronic stress and interpersonal trauma, especially people frustrated by conventional options who feel like nothing has ‘worked’ yet. If you’ve tried talk therapy or medication and still feel anxious, depressed, numb or unable to truly enjoy life and relationships, you’re not alone.
I grew up being posted around the world by the British Army, come from a family of military veterans and have trained to deliver yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices adapted for the military community, so I welcome serving personnel, veterans and their families. I support business leaders and healthcare professionals dealing with burnout too.
Alongside one-to-one and small-group sessions (on request), I facilitate trauma-informed psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands, where psilocybin truffles are legal, and in Peru, where traditional ayahuasca use is recognised as part of the national cultural heritage. I’ve supported veterans on these retreats, and I offer preparation and integration support before and after.
What the work is
TCTSY is a therapeutic, evidence-based approach developed for complex trauma and PTSD, and is described by its developer, David Emerson, and colleagues in The Palgrave Handbook of Third-Wave Psychotherapies (2025)*. I’m a certified TCTSY facilitator, and I work in ongoing clinical and peer supervision. It can sit alongside therapy, counselling or medication.
You’re invited to explore movements and notice what you feel in your body. You decide what to do, whether to change it, or whether to stop. No pretzel poses, no pressure, no performance. You don’t need to be flexible or fit, and we can work from a chair. The aim is that, over time, you develop tools you can use on your own, so you don’t need me forever.
*Emerson, D., Pringle, K., Jude, M., Bodine, E., Kempe, E., & Nguyen-Feng, V. N. (2025). Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga: Conceptual Components, Facilitation Guides, and Reflections. In W. W. Li et al. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Third-Wave Psychotherapies. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00353-9_34
HOW IT STARTS
A free call on Zoom. You tell me what’s going on and what you want, and you decide whether to go ahead.
A short intake questionnaire, which you can leave partly blank.
A first session. I suggest booking three to begin with, then reviewing.
SESSION costS
30 minutes: £65 per session (£45 supported rate).
Up to 75 minutes: £125 per session (£85 supported rate).
The supported rate is for anyone not in employment, on state support or under financial strain, and no evidence is needed.
GROUPS
I also offer small-group sessions on request, for businesses, charities and other groups of people. Feel free to get in touch to discuss what you need and I’ll tailor the cost to suit.
“I’ve had an eating disorder for a long time and the stresses of my job mean I also find it hard to be present, often negative thinking, planning or judging. My goal was to settle down, to rest and to be kinder to myself. What really helped me is that Charlotte always gave me options and was flexible in responding to how I was feeling. It helped me to listen to my body and what I needed, and really helped me to be open to this kind of work.”
“Body treatment is somewhere, like, way on the periphery of the world. Instead, we sit in a chair and we talk to people, somehow trying to magically make people safe in their body…
…I did the first National Institutes of Health-funded study on Yoga. If you learn how to really inhabit your body and learn to feel comfortable moving your body… something starts shifting.”
- Dr Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist, trauma researcher and author of The Body Keeps the Score.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO TRAUMA RECOVERY
There is a growing evidence base showing that trauma impacts not only thoughts and emotions, but also the body’s physiological stress systems. Your nervous system can remain highly attuned to threat — a kind of persistent ‘survival mode’ that may have served you well in the past, but now, long after the original distressing events, may be limiting your capacity to live a full and free life.
You may experience a persistent edginess, restlessness or need to constantly be busy doing things, and/or a reduced ability to feel at ease in your own body. These patterns can affect sleep, concentration, relationships and the ability to be present with and enjoy daily life.
Understanding with your mind what has happened can be important, but insight alone doesn’t always change the patterns held in the body. We can also work directly with the body to build a greater capacity to feel safe and alive in the present. This is where trauma-sensitive somatic work — using body- and movement-based practices — comes in.
No gimmicks, gadgets or equipment needed. Just what you walk around with. You can be your own most powerful resource.
TESTIMONIALS
What I offeR
All options combine Western-developed somatic practices informed by neuroscience with ancient postural, breath and meditation methods drawn from Eastern traditions such as Yoga and Buddhism — always tailored to the person in front of me. I bring together clinical best practice, ancient wisdom and deep respect for you and your individual experience, without dogma or judgement.
Body-Led Therapeutic Trauma Support using Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)
TCTSY is an evidence-based, therapeutic approach using mindful movement, interoception (encouraging reconnection to inner bodily sensations and signals) and offering choice-based exploration, developed specifically for people living with complex trauma and PTSD. Online one-to-one sessions via Zoom, or in person if you’re in London. Small-group sessions tailored on request, including for charities and other organisations.
Engineer Stillness® — A 40-day one-to-one programme building self-regulation
A 40-day, one-to-one programme in which we design a personal practice of body-, movement- and breath-based techniques, ancient and modern, that you learn by heart and can use whenever and wherever you need it. The aim is to find your grounded centre, the steady, ‘still’ part of you that remains unperturbed beneath everything, and to move from it, whatever the day asks. The aim is not dependence on me. It is embodied self-leadership.
Psychedelic retreats, preparation and integration support
I facilitate trauma-informed retreats working with psilocybin truffles in the Netherlands and with ayahuasca in Peru, alongside indigenous ayahuasca healers, and have worked with psychedelics for my own recovery for years. I help you prepare beforehand, and afterwards offer somatic, body-led integration coaching to make sense of the experience and bring new tools into everyday life. Prepare well, integrate deeply, live differently.
“EVERYTHING CAN BE TAKEN FROM A MAN BUT ONE THING: THE LAST OF HUMAN FREEDOMS - TO CHOOSE ONE’S ATTITUDE IN ANY GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES.”
- Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, neurologist and Holocaust survivor.
What it’s like to work with me
Through my own process of navigating relational trauma, a long-standing eating disorder, anxiety and corporate burnout, and through my professional training, I’ve learned how to work with our body-mind in a way that is:
Adaptable — you don’t need to be flexible, fit or able to get onto the floor.
Approachable — no pretzel poses, no pressure, no performance, wear what you like.
Empowering — teaching you tools to use on your own, so you don’t need me forever.
Holistic — addressing your whole self, not just your symptoms
My work draws on both contemporary understandings of trauma and longstanding embodied traditions, offering ways to work directly with patterns held in the body as well as the mind.
I offer practical somatic (body- and movement-based) approaches, informed by evidence and tailored to the individual, to support sustainable recovery and long-term, self-guided wellbeing. These are tools you can learn to help rebuild physical confidence, gain greater agency over day-to-day mental and emotional functioning, regulate your nervous system, adapt more readily to change and develop a greater capacity for fulfilling relationships.
If you’ve tried yoga before and it wasn’t for you, you may find this is different. My work draws on what I see as yoga’s heart: that relating, to ourselves and to each other, is central to being human, and that when we’re met with compassion, our systems settle and we can grow into our fullest capacities. So it’s more than a set of practices, though those are always adapted to your needs, capacity and comfort. It’s a way of being with you and holding the space, at your pace. It may look very different from what you’ve seen or experienced.
If you’re curious, the first step is a free call, with no commitment.