Trauma Therapy
Trauma-Informed Support Begins With You
There is no single checklist that defines trauma — and you don’t need one to begin healing. What matters most is how your nervous system has learned to survive, and whether it still needs to. Here, we focus on restoring safety, regulation, and connection rather than fitting your experience into a label.
Your nervous system remembers events your mind may not. Healing begins in the body and mind together — gently and safely — with a clinician who understands how survival patterns get locked in. My practice integrates trauma science, somatic insight, and compassionate therapeutic holding to help you move out of chronic survival and into grounded regulation.
Healing trauma is not something you do alone.
It requires a safe, steady relationship — one where your experience is met without judgement, pressure, or urgency.
My work is grounded in trauma-informed psychotherapy and decades of clinical experience supporting people through complex trauma, grief, and nervous-system dysregulation. Over many years, and through extensive retreat and therapeutic work, I have accompanied thousands of individuals as they moved from survival into greater safety, clarity, and connection.
This work is approached with care and respect. I do not rush, label, or attempt to “fix” what has developed as a response to lived experience. Instead, therapy is paced, relational, and guided by the intelligence of your nervous system.
There are no quick solutions here. Healing happens through presence, attunement, and time — allowing the body and mind to reorganise gently, without overwhelm or retraumatisation.
You do not need to have the right words.
You do not need to know where to begin.
You do not need to carry this alone.
If you are considering support, we can begin with a calm, no-pressure conversation to explore what might feel helpful for you.
Tess Hunneybell
Trauma Psychotherapist
Building Safety
After overwhelming experiences, the nervous system often remains on alert. Therapy supports the gradual rebuilding of safety and stability — helping your system learn that the present moment can be different from the past.
Reducing Threat Responses
Trauma can keep the body reliving events long after they are over. This work focuses on easing those automatic responses, allowing moments of openness and choice to return without forcing change.
Restoring Capacity
Long-term vigilance and stress can lead to deep exhaustion. Through paced, body-aware therapy, energy and resilience can begin to return — slowly, safely, and sustainably.
Healing Trauma with Tess Hunneybell: Mind and Body Integration for Lasting Transformation
This work offers a calm, supportive space where healing begins with safety, pacing, and a careful integration of mind and body. Trauma does not need to be relived or explained in detail for change to occur. What matters is how the nervous system has learned to respond — and whether it still needs to.
My approach integrates trauma-informed psychotherapy with somatic awareness, supporting a gradual return to regulation, connection, and choice. Sessions are held gently and respectfully, guided by what your system can safely tolerate.
About Tess Hunneybell
Tess Hunneybell is an internationally recognised trauma psychotherapist and consultant with decades of experience supporting individuals affected by complex trauma, grief, and long-standing survival patterns.
Her work is informed by contemporary trauma science and many years of sitting alongside people as they make sense of experiences that were overwhelming or impossible to process at the time. Therapy is offered with steadiness, care, and deep respect for each person’s pace.
Why Mind and Body Integration Matters in Trauma Therapy
Trauma is not held in thoughts alone. It is reflected in nervous-system patterns, bodily sensations, emotional responses, and states of vigilance or shutdown.
When mind and body are not working together, people may feel numb, overwhelmed, or caught in cycles they do not fully understand. This can be unsettling and often brings a quiet sense of frustration or self-doubt.
Mind–body trauma therapy works with these responses as part of a single system, allowing regulation and coherence to return gradually — without pressure or re-exposure to distressing material.
How This Work Is Held
- Trauma-informed psychotherapy
Evidence-based work that prioritises safety, consent, and pacing. - Somatic awareness
Supporting the body’s role in regulation without forcing release. - Mindfulness and breath-based practices
Used carefully to support presence and nervous-system settling. - Integrative therapeutic holding
A steady, relational approach that allows change to unfold over time.
Working Together
This work is collaborative, private, and carefully paced. You will not be rushed, labelled, or asked to disclose more than feels comfortable.
Many people arrive later in life after carrying things quietly for years. If previous attempts at therapy felt overwhelming or unhelpful, a slower, body-aware approach may feel different.
There are no quick fixes here — only thoughtful, attuned support that respects the complexity of trauma and the intelligence of the nervous system.
Next Steps
If you are considering support, you are welcome to request a brief discovery call to explore whether this work feels appropriate for you.
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If your experience includes grief or loss, you may wish to explore the
Grief & Loss Therapy page.