Somatic Work & Emotional Healing on Koh Phangan

Body-based therapeutic practice for travelers and islanders ready to bring lasting change to their way of being, thinking and feeling and step into a fulfilled life. 

Whether you’re passing through Koh Phangan, living here as a long-term resident, or joining sessions online from anywhere, this is a body-based therapeutic space to work with what talking alone hasn’t shifted. Many of our behaviours, feelings, and thought patterns are wired into the nervous system, the soma, and the unconscious. When the body learns new experiences of safety and choice, the mind follows.

How we create lasting change

Somatic & Parts Work Therapeutic Practice

Talking about it hasn’t been enough. That’s not a failure, it’s because trauma and stress live in the nervous system, not just in the story.

This is a body-based therapeutic approach, working with both body and mind on a somatic level. Rather than analyzing, we work with what your body is still holding  so it can finally complete what it never got to.

The pace is carefully guided so you feel safe enough to go deeper without overwhelm. As your nervous system learns it’s safe, change stops being something you understand and starts being something you feel, embodied, not just intellectual.

Each session includes three interconnected elements. Click the “+” to read more about each.

We look beneath repeating patterns, whether in relationships, self-worth, boundaries, or habits,  to understand the conditioning that driving them. Instead of managing surface behaviours, we work with the deeper roots.

Emotional patterns are not only mental, but they also live in the nervous system. Through somatic awareness, we allow the body to complete old stress responses and develop new experiences of safety, clarity, and choice.

As inner conflicts begin to soften, your relationship with yourself changes. You may notice greater self-trust, clearer boundaries, and a more compassionate inner dialogue,  allowing you to move through life with greater alignment.

Whether you're here for a few days or you've made Koh Phangan home, this work may be for you if...

  • You notice people-pleasing tendencies, over-adapting, or feeling the need to perform in order to feel accepted or valued.

  • You experience a strong inner critic and want to develop a more compassionate, supportive relationship with yourself.

  • You find yourself repeating emotional or relational patterns, especially in close or romantic relationships, and are curious about attachment-based inner child work.

  • You’re open to a somatic, body-based approach that supports emotional healing through felt experience.

  • You’re seeking a supportive space for inner exploration rather than quick fixes.

This work may support you in:

  • Developing embodied awareness of the patterns that shape your reactions and choices
  • Transforming the deeper layers that block intimate relationships 

  • Softening long-held emotional tension and creating new experiences of safety in the body/soma

  • Transforming your inner dialogue into one that is more compassionate and supportive

  • Feeling more connected to your needs, boundaries, and emotional truth

  • Making clearer, more aligned decisions in relationships and in life

Over time, this work supports a shift from reacting out of old conditioning to responding from clarity and self-trust, allowing you to relate, choose, and live with greater alignment.

What does a session look like?

Each session begins with grounding and clarity around the topics that you would like to work on in your life at the moment. From there, we gently explore the deeper conditionning connected to your current experience, especially those held beneath conscious awareness.

Through guided psycho-somatic work, breath, and trauma-informed methods, your nervous system is supported in experiencing new patterns of safety and choice. Rather than forcing change, we create space for what has been held in the body to be felt, understood, and gradually released.

Sessions are carefully paced and attuned to your capacity. Over time, this embodied process supports lasting shifts, helping you respond from clarity and self-trust instead of old conditioning.

When the body feels safe, what once felt stuck can soften,
and a more compassionate relationship with yourself becomes possible.

Meet your guide

Karine is a somatic & attachment practitioner offering one-to-one sessions focused on attachment work, parts work, inner child healing, emotional processing, and body-based (somatic) therapeutic work. Her approach integrates somatic awareness, attachment-informed perspectives, and trauma-informed methods to support individuals in understanding and gently transforming inner patterns rooted in relational experiences.


Karine trained in Somatic Attachment Therapy through the EmbodyLab with world-known therapists such as Peter Levine, Diane Poole Heller, Ann Weiser Cornell, etc . She also trained in the foundations of trauma-sensitive yoga with TCTSY, an organization that developed their program with Dr. Bessel Van Kolkr who wrote the Body Keep the Score. And finally, with more than 100+ hrs of experience, her work is professionnel, trauma-informed and guided with care, attunement, and respect for each person’s pace. 

Alongside her professional training, Karine’s work is deeply shaped by her own self-development journey. This personal depth informs the grounded, relational way she supports clients today.

She feels honoured to accompany individuals who are ready to move beyond conditioned patterns and build a more conscious, compassionate relationship with themselves and others.


Note: Sessions are supportive and educational in nature and are not a substitute for psychiatric care or medical treatment. Karine does not diagnose mental health conditions

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Session Details

Somatic Therapeutic Work

  • Duration: 60 or 90 minutes

  • Format
    In-person on Koh Phangan or 
    Online (GoogleMeet)

  • Investment
    €115 for 60mins
    €150 for 90 mins

  • Booking: Via the form below or WhatsApp +66 650 7263

Customized program & mentorship available on request.

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For those seeking deeper work, a longer-term mentorship is also available.
Learn more about the mentorship → click here