As a BACP Accredited therapist, and as someone who has regular therapy myself, I'm completely convinced that therapy can be life-changing. Most people can reap its benefits through talking therapy—the so-called 'top-down' approach. However, particularly when working with people with relational and childhood trauma, I have become particularly interested in how some people struggle to recover and remain stuck in old patterns despite having a lot of insight and understanding of themselves. Only when understanding connects with experience does it really fall into place and become a new way of being. This was my experience, and I see it in some people I work with. I had this sense that this capacity for choice and freedom to act was something about connecting head to heart or mind to body—but how to reliably achieve this for people? I heard about somatic therapy and how past experiences and relational patterns can be held in the body. Some things only seem accessible through working with them directly—a so-called 'bottom-up' approach. To deepen my work and personal process in this area, I am undertaking an advanced four-year postgraduate training in body-oriented psychotherapy at the Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre and am also currently training in EMDR.