Somatic Therapy, IFS & Inner Child Healing in Vancouver: How to Reclaim Your Body, Voice & Wholeness
- Candice
- Nov 13
- 5 min read
You’ve sensed it in your body: the tension, the ache, the way you freeze in certain relationships or shut down when you try to say no. You’ve tried talking it through — journaling, cognitive tools, even mindful breathing — and while they helped a little, something still doesn’t feel settled or complete.
There is a gentle yet powerful way back to yourself: one that honours your nervous system, listens to your body, and blends science and spirit. I’m Candice — a Canadian Certified Counsellor located in Vancouver, BC (and virtually across Canada), somatic therapist, and intuitive guide - blending somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, parts-work (inner child healing & IFS/Internal Family Systems Therapy), and other trauma-informed, holistic, and compassionate healing modalities — and I work with women just like you who are ready to stop surviving and start thriving.
What Is Somatic Therapy — and Why Does It Matter?
Many women who experience burnout, anxiety, relational trauma, or low self-worth find that their body still carries the story long after their mind believes it has healed. You might understand what happened, yet still feel a heaviness in your chest, a lump in your throat, or a sense of shutting down when life asks you to expand.
Somatic therapy — sometimes called body-based trauma therapy — bridges that gap between what you know and what you feel. It helps your nervous system shift out of fight, flight, or freeze and into a place of felt safety and presence.
Here’s why so many women in Vancouver (and across British Columbia) are turning toward somatic therapy and nervous system regulation therapy as their path home:
It reaches the root, not just the symptom. Somatic therapy works directly with your nervous system, where trauma and chronic stress are stored — creating real, lasting change rather than surface-level coping.
It helps you feel safe in your body again. For many women, anxiety, overthinking, or emotional numbness are signs that the body hasn’t felt safe in a long time. Somatic therapy rebuilds that sense of inner safety slowly and gently.
It restores connection to intuition and self-trust. When your body is calm and regulated, your inner voice becomes clearer. You begin to trust yourself again — your needs, your boundaries, your truth.
It transforms survival patterns into embodied confidence. Patterns like people-pleasing, perfectionism, or over-functioning are often survival responses. Somatic therapy helps your body unlearn these patterns so you can move from surviving to thriving.
It integrates mind, body, and spirit. You’re not just talking about the past — you’re inviting your whole system to experience something new: safety, softness, wholeness.
It honours the nervous system. The work is gentle, cyclical, and attuned — never forcing or pushing, but allowing your system to lead the pace of healing.
Through somatic therapy in Vancouver, you learn how to listen to your body’s language — sensations, breath, posture, energy — and gently unwind what’s been held for too long.
Healing becomes something you feel, not just something you talk about.
How Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Helps You Heal From the Inside Out
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model sees your inner world as a living ecosystem of “parts” — protector parts, exile parts, reactive parts — and at the center, your core Self: wise, compassionate, calm, and whole.
Many women I work with here in Vancouver come to therapy feeling caught in patterns — people-pleasing, self-criticism, over-functioning, or staying small in relationships. You might notice an inner voice that says “I should be over this by now” or “I can’t mess up.”
IFS therapy invites you to meet those parts of yourself with curiosity and care instead of judgment. As you learn to listen to them, rather than fight them, they begin to relax — and healing unfolds naturally.
When we weave IFS parts work with somatic awareness, the process becomes deeply embodied. You start to notice how each part lives in your body — a tightening in your chest, a heaviness in your belly, a numbness behind your eyes — and through gentle presence, these sensations begin to soften.
This is where the real transformation happens: the shift from simply understanding yourself to feeling integrated. Combining IFS therapy with somatic healing allows both your mind and nervous system to find harmony — bringing you home to your Self.
Inner Child Healing: Returning to the Parts of You That Still Need Love
Your inner child carries the early imprints of your story — the unmet needs, emotional wounds, and moments when it didn’t feel safe to be fully you. Even if you can’t recall them consciously, your body remembers: the tension in your shoulders, the lump in your throat, the urge to shrink or please when conflict arises.
Inner child healing is the sacred process of turning toward that younger you — not to fix her, but to finally listen. It’s where you begin to see her clearly, soothe her gently, and bring her back into belonging within you.
When we integrate somatic therapy, IFS parts work, and inner child healing, something profound happens. You don’t just manage symptoms — you begin to re-parent yourself from the inside out. You reclaim safety, softness, and the freedom to express who you truly are.
For women in Vancouver and across British Columbia navigating burnout, people-pleasing, anxious attachment patterns, imposter syndrome, relationship struggles, self-worth challenges, or a lingering disconnection from body or voice, this work is deeply restorative.
It invites you to stop striving for “better” and start coming home — to the body, to your truth, to your soul-self.
Let's Work Together — Trauma-Informed Therapy, Somatic Therapy, IFS, Inner Child Healing, and More in Vancouver, BC
Are You Ready?
If you’re reading this and you feel:
A persistent heaviness in your body that talking alone hasn’t shifted
Anxiety, freeze, burnout, relational patterns repeating again and again
A longing to reconnect with your body, your voice, your inner child
A readiness to stop living at the surface and begin living embodied, aligned, whole.
Then you’re in the right place. When you choose to explore somatic therapy + IFS + inner child healing, you’re choosing to step into your body, your voice and your deeper truth.
Ready to begin your healing journey?
Holistic & Somatic Therapy with Candice
*Virtually located in Vancouver, BC, and offering virtual therapy and healing sessions in most provinces across Canada.
If you’re feeling the pull to move beyond talking about your pain — to actually feel healing unfold through your body — somatic therapy can help you reconnect with your inner safety, strength, and sense of self.
In our work together, we weave traditional therapy with body-based and trauma-informed approaches to support your nervous system, release long-held patterns, and help you feel more grounded, alive, and whole.
Whether you’re navigating anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, or simply longing to feel more at home in yourself — this work meets you where you are, with compassion and care.
Feeling called to explore this work?
Schedule a 30 minute initial exploration call or learn more about how somatic therapy can support your journey of healing and reconnection.
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