About Me – Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in Newcastle upon Tyne
My Path to Somatic Experiencing
Before training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I spent over six years supporting individuals and families as a certified parenting coach, working closely with parents navigating big emotions, self-doubt, and emotional overwhelm.
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Again and again, I noticed a common pattern: while many parents initially sought support for their child’s behaviour, it became clear that the deeper healing often needed to begin within themselves.
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Anxiety, rage, shutdown, hopelessness, these weren’t signs of failure. They were often expressions of unresolved trauma, emotional neglect, or chronic stress carried from earlier life experiences. This realisation echoed my own journey.
(Meeting Dr Peter Levine in London 2023 on his Therapeutic Presence, Rhythm, and Connection 2 day workshop.)
A Personal Turning Point
My journey into Somatic Experiencing® (SE) began following a difficult life event. I had spent many years as a psychotherapy client, exploring my past and childhood in depth and developing a strong cognitive understanding of my triggers, patterns, and behaviours. While this insight was valuable, I still felt disconnected from my body. I didn’t know how to heal from dissociation, how to be truly present, or how to experience life in the here and now.
My first Somatic Experiencing session was profound. I experienced a level of presence and attunement from my practitioner that I rarely felt in my day-to-day life, and something in my system recognised it as deeply regulating and safe. After a year of weekly sessions, I felt called to deepen my understanding and embarked on the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training in London.
Somatic Experiencing has enabled me to reconnect with parts of myself that had become frozen through trauma and life events, allowing me to feel more alive, embodied, and responsive to the world around me rather than overwhelmed or shut down by it.
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One of the unexpected gifts of my own trauma healing has been how it’s deepened my relationships with my children, my family, and the people in my life and strengthened my connection to my body. This has shown up in how I care for myself through movement, strength training, Pilates, salsa dancing, and in returning to creativity and play through Improv and professional acting classes here in Newcastle.
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I’ve seen time and again, both personally and in my work with clients, that as the nervous system finds more safety, we don’t just feel less overwhelmed we gain access to vitality, playfulness, and parts of ourselves that were never lost, only protected. This is at the heart of the work I offer.
SE was developed by Dr Peter Levine, who began by studying animals in the wild and questioning why they routinely survive life-threatening events without developing PTSD, while humans so often do. Through this work, he discovered that trauma is not caused by the event itself, but by the nervous system’s inability to complete its natural survival responses. Somatic Experiencing gently supports this completion process, helping the body restore regulation, resilience, and a sense of safety - something I have experienced both personally and now bring into my work with others.
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If you are new to Somatic Experiencing I would highly recommend reading Dr Peter Levine's books - Waken the Tiger and In an Unspoken voice. Or watching his videos on youtube by clicking here.
How I Work
My approach is gentle, body-based, and trauma-informed. I support clients to explore their inner experience with curiosity and compassion, rather than analysis or pressure. Somatic Experiencing doesn’t require you to retell painful stories or revisit traumatic events in detail. Instead, sessions focus on gently tracking what’s happening in your body in the present moment, allowing physical tension, emotions, and held energy to emerge and release in their own time. Everything is paced carefully and respectfully, guided by your nervous system and what feels manageable for you.
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Together, we work with:
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Nervous system regulation
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Attachment and developmental trauma
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Chronic stress and burnout
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Emotional overwhelm and shutdown
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Trauma held in the body
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I offer a grounded and compassionate space to explore what’s underneath the surface and move toward greater ease, stability, and wholeness.
I’m a qualified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, supporting adults and parents online and in person across the UK.
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My work is rooted in the understanding that healing begins with the nervous system. Many of the struggles we experience anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, emotional reactivity, burnout, or feeling stuck are not signs of something being “wrong” with us, but intelligent responses of a nervous system shaped by stress, attachment wounds, and trauma.
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Through Somatic Experiencing, I help clients gently reconnect with their bodies, build capacity for regulation, and restore a felt sense of safety, resilience, and aliveness at a pace that respects their system.
About Happy Me Somatic Therapy
Rediscover Your Inner Steadiness
At Happy Me Somatic Therapy, I offer gentle, body-based support for emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and reconnection with your deeper self. Whether you’re navigating parenting challenges, burnout, anxiety, or old trauma, my work helps you slow down, feel more grounded, and meet your experience with compassion - not just analysis.
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Rooted in the science of the nervous system and the power of the mind-body connection, my approach integrates Somatic Experiencing®, trauma-informed coaching, and embodied presence. The aim isn’t to fix you it’s to help you come home to yourself.
As a certified Parenting Coach through the Jai Institute of Parenting and a trainee Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (developed by Dr. Peter Levine), I bring together practical tools and deep nervous system work to support healing that lasts.
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This work is about capacity, not perfection about finding the steadiness underneath the overwhelm. You don’t have to do it alone.
Fiona Ng
Connecting with Your Emotions and Finding Inner Peace
"Working with Fiona was a pleasure. She helped us to understand how we should communicate with our son, how we should hold space for his feelings, remain calm when he has tantrums and always show unconditional love. The journey introduced me to the concept of somatic experiencing as well as reflecting on the parenting my family gave me and how some of the negative aspects are easy to fall into and repeat. Truly life changing."
"Working with Fiona has been such a wonderful experience, I feel like I’ve entered a new world of self discovery and its all thanks to her that I am on this journey now. I felt so comfortable in her warm and kind presence and it was so validating to have someone listen to me with no judgement. I never knew anything about the nervous system and learning from her has changed how I approach everything, not just parenting but in all aspects of my life. I feel so much more confident in my abilities as a parent and learned so much from her. I’m eternally grateful for all the support and guidance she’s given me and I feel so lucky that I found her!"
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"I found Fiona through a Google search and this was the best thing that could have ever happened for my son. Her parent coaching has literally revolutionised how I parent, it’s allowed me to build a safe, strong, close and healthy relationship with my son whilst holding boundaries in a conscious caring way. My son has SPD and it’s been especially crucial for us to have this relationship so we can meet his needs. I cannot recommend Fiona enough and I would encourage any parents to invest in your family by working with her."
