I am a therapist based in Cambridgeshire, UK, offering one-to-one therapeutic bodywork sessions.

Please click on the links above to explore my work, or to find out more about me.

my approach

Working with the body, both through touch and by bringing awareness to sensations and other aspects of our experience, can have dramatic effects on our emotional state and the way we perceive and respond to the world.

My primary training is in biodynamic massage, in practice since 2003.

Biodynamic massage uses a wide variety of techniques - ranging from subtle energy methods to much deeper styles of bodywork - which are selected to suit the needs of the individual client on that particular day.

The touch aims both to restore balance and to help a client to develop the ability to maintain balance through the ups and downs of life.

Biodynamic massage originated within biodynamic psychotherapy and emphasises the mind-body connection: some talking is incorporated into sessions.

Most people find biodynamic massage extremely enjoyable and many of my clients have been returning to me for years.

I am also an Intermediate year student of Somatic Experiencing (SE), a body-based approach to healing trauma.

SE has brought considerable refinement to my work: it has also been of enormous benefit to me personally. I am passionate about SE!

The two approaches are entirely complementary.

Whereas biodynamic massage has a focus on the completion of unresolved emotional cycles in the body (for example, unexpressed anger or grief), SE works with incomplete self-protective impulses and survival-related nervous system phases (orientation, fight, flight and freeze).

I am not currently taking on new clients but please email me to register an interest if you might like to pursue sessions in future.
Vicki Martin, September 2011

For more about Somatic Experiencing, visit the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (SETI).

SE is also described in founder Dr Peter Levine's books Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice [links go to Amazon.co.uk]

"My muscle pain improved after every session. I'd recommend this treatment to anyone."
[October 2009]