This Is Totally Sound

A therapist's journey into why vibration belongs in therapy (and why it’s not woo)

For most of my career, I’ve lived at the intersection of the clinical and the creative.

My work has always moved between worlds; theatre and psychotherapy, science and story, trauma and transformation. I’ve spent a decade helping people regulate, reconnect, and rebuild through EMDR, Dramatherapy, somatic tools, nervous system education, and creative processes rooted in my physical theatre training.

And yet… something in me has been quietly knocking for a while.

An instinct.

A pull.

A knowing.

Not the sort that takes you away from your practice, but the kind that deepens it.

So, this year I'm finally listening.

Stepping Into Sound Therapy: The Training I’m Beginning

In the next few weeks, I'm beginning formal training with the UK College of Sound Healing, concurrently in Himalayan Singing Bowls, and in Gong therapy.

Two separate trainings. Two ancient lineages. One clear intention:

To bring a deeper, more embodied, more elemental layer of healing into my work.

This isn’t a departure from psychotherapy. It’s a continuation, and a widening of it. A return to something both deeply ancient and fully evidence-based.

Let’s Get One Thing Straight: Sound Therapy Is Not “Woo.”

I will make space for the eye-rolls and I am not swapping clinical practice for crystals in a forest (though that sounds pretty great, nature is lovely and I wouldn’t say no to a mossy moment).

Sound therapy directly interacts with the systems I already work with every single day:

• The vagus nerve

• The limbic system

• The body’s natural rhythmicity

• Neural entrainment and brainwave states

• The parasympathetic response

Vibration is one of the oldest forms of regulation. Your nervous system knows how to respond to sound before it knows how to speak.

Think about it:

• Your heart naturally syncs to rhythm.

• Your breath softens when the tempo slows.

• Your muscles let go as vibration moves through the body.

• Look at the way a lullaby works on a baby before language ever arrives

  
  

This work isn’t floaty; it’s physiological.

Sound is a bridge, and a deeply intelligent one, between the sensory, emotional, and unconscious layers we often can’t reach through words alone.

Why Now?

Because we absolutely know that regulation cannot only happen from the neck up.

People are overwhelmed, overstimulated, and disconnected from their bodies, as we're all living in a world that’s too loud and too fast for our human nervous system.

Trauma lives in the tissue. Anxiety sits in the breath. Stress resonates in the rhythms we’ve forgotten how to hear.

My practice has always been trauma-informed, integrative, relational, and creative but something in me wanted to reach further back. To incorporate the wisdom that existed long before clinical frameworks ever did.

To return to something elemental, something rhythmic, something that (literally) vibrates at the level where healing actually begins.

The Personal Layer (Because Therapists Are Humans Too)

If you’ve worked with me, you know that I lean into imagery, sensory grounding, metaphor, and somatic exploration. You might also know I’m astrologically curious, spiritually attuned, and a little bit in love with the quiet mythology of this world.

And when I connect to my own inner world, the imagery is always the same: community, compassion, ancient rhythms, ritual, earth. A druidess in a previous life, perhaps? And I can tell you this; sound is the missing piece that feels like home.

This training doesn’t take me away from being a psychotherapist. It makes me feel like a truer one. A more complete one, and one whose work spans both evidence and intuition.

What This Means for My Clients & Community

A woman dressed in white stands serenely by the water, holding a mallet next to a gong, with sunlight filtering through the trees in the background.

It means that in 2026, you’ll start to see new offerings woven through my clinical work and my workshops:

• Sound-led decompression sessions

• Himalayan/Singing bowl treatments for nervous system settling

• Gong baths integrated with trauma-informed grounding

• Hybrid sessions blending psychotherapy plus sound plus somatic tools

• Creative group experiences rooted in resonance and rhythm

  
  

All of it held with the same boundaries, ethics, and clinical grounding as every other part of my work.

This will never be about bypassing real emotions or replacing therapy with something shiny.

It’s about opening another doorway to healing, one that humans have walked through for thousands of years.

A colourful meditation setup featuring Tibetan singing bowls, mallets, crystals, and candles on a vibrant, patterned fabric, creating an atmosphere of tranquility and healing.

If You’ve Been Waiting for Something More Embodied, It’s Coming...

And I can’t wait to share it with you.

This feels like an evolution. A weird convergence of a return and a beginning all at once, and I’m following this pull with equal parts curiosity, excitement, and grounded professionalism.

More updates will be landing soon. For now, I’m learning, listening (literally), and letting the resonance do its work. And, let me tell you, it's pretty 'sound'. I'll share more of the academic and clinical research in a digestible blog soon, once I've remembered how to reference...

So, here’s to sound. Here’s to nervous system wisdom. Here’s to what happens when science, creativity, and ancient memory finally meet.