Charlotte Mindel

Somatic Therapy for women & mothers

Find freedom from stress, overwhelm, and resentment.

For women feeling stuck and ready for more Authenticity and Joy

You’re doing ‘the work’, yet something still feels unresolved.

You’re weary finding yourself in the same repetitive arguments with your partner.

The self-righteous anger and resentment doesn’t feel good, and yet it feels like an inevitability. It feels impossible to find another way.

Your self-doubt about your relationship, your parenting, or your work blocks you from living in the moment.

Your hopeful ideas of being a present, playful and spontaneous mother are feeling further out of reach than ever.

Exhaustion is your normal state, and how do you change anything when you only have the energy to do the bare minimum?

On the outside everything looks great but it doesn’t match up with how you thought this part of your life would feel.

i know. I was there too.

After recovering from an eating disorder in my 20’s I felt like I had all the tools to cope with the changes of motherhood. Yet I found myself a year in reaching an emotional rock-bottom and wondering “is this it?”.

Everything changed for me when I started healing my nervous system and coming into a deeper relationship with my body. Read more of my story here.

I witness this same shift with my clients. They move from surviving to thriving. From stress to space.

An entire shift in capacity to love life rather than manage it.

But don’t just take my word for it ⇣

  • I was not expecting to have such deep stuff brought up but honestly it helped me feel so much more compassionate and patient with myself. Charlotte made me feel so comfortable and safe. I could listen to her voice all day. Thank you Charlotte for helping my heart.

    Nicola

  • Charlotte has a great way of digging deep into feelings and topics without making you feel too exposed or pressured.

    Victoria

  • I am in awe of what emerged. so insightful, healing and I felt much lighter.

    Yolande

  • Working with Charlotte has helped me turn some big corners that I didn't quite know were there. She guided me to safe places within my body, letting my body speak and move without judgement.

    Leonie Rainbird-Savin

  • I cannot express to you enough how much your questions and insight and deep listening helped me to pivot to a place of empowerment and acceptance as opposed to overwhelm and fear

    Alice

Your body knows the way, even when you don’t

How your body might be speaking to you?

  • Exhaustion or constant stress

  • Intrusive thoughts

  • Feeling constantly wound up by yourself and others

  • Ruminating on a past event (e.g. a challenging birth or old relationships)

  • Intimacy blocks

  • Fear around yours or your child’s health, your career, your living circumstances, birth or other life events

  • Feeling limited by your life circumstances

  • Recurring bouts of illness / run down / burn out

  • Physical expressions e.g. back pain, skin flare ups, digestive difficulties

How we work with what your body is saying

  • Somatic healing: Soma refers to the body, and using a co-created intention, together we listen to your body and follow it’s guidance.

    I support you to release the judgement and meaning making so we can allow the innate healing and intelligence of your body.

    Your body has all the power it needs to heal and integrate wounded parts, together we enable that process.

  • Healing is multi-layered: often a wound, trauma, or an unmet need sit beneath a layer of inner critic.

    The critical voice often prevents us from healing because it tells us it’s not a big deal, we should be over it, it never happened, at least we have xyz, we’re broken.

    We work directly with the critical voice of shame and the inner critic, when they are the predominant experience to support you to move beyond them to the wisdom beneath.

what does a session look like

We meet online. I invite you to join from somewhere you will be undisturbed and comfortable.

A minimum of 6-sessions is how I work to build therapeutic alliance, and initiate your connection with your nervous system.

The first couple of sessions are about getting to know your body, and supporting you to connect with the sensations and experiences of your body.

From there, we set an intention for each session e.g. I would like to feel able to ask for support from my partner with ease. I support you to refine the intention.

I will guide you to drop-in to your body, and support you in starting to connect with how it is communicating through sensation, imagery, memory, or other instincts.

No two sessions are the same, we track the sensation of your body and work with what is showing up. Sometimes through specific practices, or by following movement, vocalising, or other ways in which your body wants to express something.

As we come to a natural ending point, we land and spend a brief time in review of the session.

Read more about somatic therapy and my approach here.

How I got here


Healing has been the backdrop to my life since my mid-20’s when bulimia and a deeply critical inner narrative took me to a real rock-bottom.

After years of challenging but life-changing recovery, I was shocked to find myself brought to new depths of challenge when I became a mother. I really thought I had the whole ‘living’ thing sussed.

What’s really become clear after years in a recovery, and the new depths of healing that motherhood has called me into, is that healing is a part of life. It’s never truly over.

But nor does it have to define your life.

The more I have healed, the more energy I have had to put behind the things that help me feel great. Like looking after my body, pursuing hobbies, exploring my creativity, and being truly present and in a state of appreciation with my family.

Somatic healing was quite a significant piece of the puzzle for me. It was really the only approach that supported me in healing unresolved trauma, rather than trying to understand the root of it.

It joined the dots of realisation that intuition is something we can access as we choose rather than elusively and intermittently throughout life. That sparked a real fire in me that drives me to want to make intuition available to all those who want to access it - because I know it can be.

With joy, always, Charlotte