1:1 Recovery and Regulation
Build your brain and body’s capacity to respond to and recover from stress.
Combining Recovery Psychology, Regulation Science and Physical training under one roof.
Building the life you want can be deeply rewarding and highly demanding. Your body can absorb a lot for a long time, and you can get very good at overriding stress, until one day, often in midlife, you notice you can’t do that in quite the same way anymore.
Chronic stress can change many aspects of how we function. Stress regulation, emotional reactivity, concentration, breathing, muscular tension, sleep and energy. I offer interventions for all these layers.
Seven years ago, I introduced tools such as neurofeedback into my practice, and what I saw was that for many of my clients, brain and body regulation led to automatic changes in thinking, perspective and emotional regulation. This body-first approach to regulation is now the centre of how I work and the layer I still see missing in psychological approaches.
I felt like I was ‘on’ and in overdrive the whole time — a state of constant vigilance. I found Nicola’s website and what it said resonated ALOT. Immediately after the trial, I could feel my body being softer, my thoughts were more mobile – I wasn’t holding tightly to worries. I booked a full course. The answer is that I am still myself, but now I am the relaxed version that I wanted to be.
This client came to BodyMindBrain after years of chronic stress and realised her reactivity was stuck at the physiological level. She combined neurofeedback, direct brain regulation training, with IHHT, a form of oxygen therapy that works at the cellular level. In the video, she describes what changed.
The Work
What sets this work apart is that I bring a wide-angle lens to how your body and mind process and recover from stress. Movement, stress regulation, nervous system regulation, recovery patterns, and thoughts and habits under pressure can all be understood through a single lens.
The work here takes several forms depending on what you need. Weekly movement and strength sessions. Psychological work to help you better manage stress reactions, habits and recovery patterns. Functional breathing training. Packages of specialist recovery technology. Or a combination across two or more of these areas.
Some clients work with me short term with a specific focus. Others work with me over longer periods as their needs evolve and as they build on previous work with me.
If you’re unsure whether it’s the right fit, let’s figure it out on a discovery call. Book a call.
Where would you like to start?
I’ve done the psychological work. I need the next layer.
Therapy or coaching gave you understanding. But the reactivity, the fatigue, the difficulty switching off haven’t shifted. You’re looking for the physiological piece that talking alone couldn’t reach. Read More Here
I know what I’m looking for.
You’ve researched neurofeedback, IHHT, or one of the programmes, or someone has pointed you in this direction. You’re ready to find out if it’s the right fit. Start Here
Something isn’t working and I’m looking to understand the whole picture more deeply.
You know the gap is there, between the effort you’re putting in and how you’re actually functioning. You’re not sure what’s driving it. A conversation or a structured assessment is the right place to begin. Read about the Deep Dive