The Breath Body Mind Method
The Breath Body Mind Method is my integrated approach to working with anxiety, chronic pain and trauma.
Anxiety, chronic pain and other symptoms reflect patterns in the nervous system, subconscious learning, stress physiology and lived experience.
This method brings together cognitive, somatic and subconscious work in a way that is responsive to you as an individual.
The focus is nervous system flexibility. This can bring greater adaptability, increased capacity and a deeper trust in your body.
If you are struggling with your thoughts, finding it hard to relax, or feeling as though your body isn’t your friend, it can begin to feel as though you are stuck that way.
When you feel supported to address the root causes of your suffering, your capacity can increase naturally. My aim is to support you to restore your confidence and agency.
The Core Principles
Nervous System Flexibility
When your nervous system has greater flexibility, it can move between activation and rest without becoming stuck in protection. Building that flexibility can increase your capacity to respond to life’s inevitable ups and downs with a feeling of safety and adaptability.
This is different, and more appropriate, than feeling calm all the time.
Subconscious pattern updating
Many protective responses operate below conscious awareness. Which is why working with the subconscious is so important. When we work directly with these patterns, change can happen at a deeper level.
Somatic Integration
The body can hold tension and incomplete stress responses long after an event has passed. Repeatable somatic practices help your body complete those responses and restore regulation to your nervous system by completing and releasing any stress responses on a bodily level.
Empowering psychoeducation
When we expand your knowledge of how symptoms develop and perpetuate, you can begin to apply those insights to yourself. This often leads to more clarity, less fear and a greater understanding- all of which can help you to make sense of and unwind your symptoms.
“The time I spent with Ella has been a real game changer. I’ve been in therapy for over 15 years, and in just a few months with her I made more progress than I had in years.
I’m incredibly grateful for her support. She has helped me reach a place I didn’t believe was possible for me.”
Betty
How the Method is applied
The Breath Body Mind Method brings together several therapeutic and educational approaches, including Cognitive Hypnotherapy, somatic therapy, breath re-education and Pain Neuroscience Education. Some are integrated within 1:1 sessions. Others are delivered as standalone practices that complement the work.
These approaches have different evidence bases, and I use them selectively according to the individual and the issues we're working with.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy
Cognitive Hypnotherapy forms the core of my 1:1 work. It allows us to work directly with subconscious patterns, predictive responses and long-standing beliefs that influence how your nervous system responds.
It creates the conditions to update outdated protective responses and build new internal resources.
Somatic Integration
Somatic Therapy is woven throughout 1:1 sessions in the form of structured impulse completion practices and body-based regulation exercises informed by Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Qi Gong principles.
These practices are structured, repeatable and grounded in nervous system science. They support the body in restoring flexibility and building capacity for regulation.
I also include somatic tools such as Havening, Eye Movement Integration and Emotional Freedom Technique.
Trauma Release Exercises (TRE)
TRE is offered as a complementary standalone practice.
Facilitated over 2 dedicated sessions, TRE can support the body in releasing deeply held tension patterns and restoring autonomic balance.
Many clients choose to integrate TRE alongside Cognitive Hypnotherapy as part of their broader nervous system work.
Breath Re-Education
Breath patterns influence nervous system stability and the ability to feel safe in our bodies.
Using the Buteyko Method, we improve carbon dioxide tolerance and restore functional breathing patterns. This supports autonomic balance and increases resilience under stress.
Pain & Nervous System Education
Expanding your understanding of how symptoms develop can increase your sense of agency.
Pain Neuroscience Education forms an essential layer of this method, supporting you to apply insights between sessions and build long-term change.
How this works in practice
In 1:1 work, each session draws from this integrated method in a way that responds to you as an individual. I work entirely online, meaning you can access personalised integrative therapy from the comfort of your own home.
Anyone is welcome to invest in my pre-recorded selection of meditation and hypnotherapy audios available in my shop.
Additionally, my 1:1 clients can have access to any of these hypnotherapy audio recordings for free during their time with me.