Natalie Janinski, ACA

Natalie Janinski is a practitioner who combines lived experience with structured experiential work to help clients move through stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, and anger. She is trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) at Level 1 and in Coherence Therapy, two experiential models that work with the brain's memory reconsolidation process to shift traumatic memories and the patterns that maintain them. These approaches are offered alongside evidence-based somatic practices tailored to each person's needs, including yoga-informed movement, guided breathwork, polyvagal-informed techniques, and mindful focusing.

Natalie often supports people who are coping with abandonment and attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant personality traits, codependency, communication or control difficulties, dissociation, eating and food-related challenges, feelings of emptiness, family conflicts, guilt and shame, and related concerns. She describes experiential and somatic methods as sometimes producing more rapid change for symptoms such as anxiety, people-pleasing, self-sabotage, and depression than talk approaches alone. As a clinician with the ACA credential, Natalie brings both professional training and personal understanding to her practice.

She encourages prospective clients to trust their instincts when choosing a therapist and welcomes enquiries by email to organise a brief chat to discuss fit and next steps.

Experiential and Somatic Approaches for Online Care

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an experiential method that helps people identify and relate to the different parts of themselves - for example protective or wounded parts - with curiosity and compassion. It can be useful for unpacking internal conflicts and patterns that contribute to anxiety, relationship difficulties, and self-sabotaging behaviours.

Coherence Therapy focuses on accessing and transforming emotional memories that maintain unwanted symptoms. By working experientially with those memories, this approach aims to allow shifts in how past experiences are held, which can reduce the power of longstanding emotional patterns.

Natalie also integrates somatic-informed techniques such as yoga-informed movement, breathwork, polyvagal-informed practices, and mindful focusing to help people reconnect with bodily experience while processing difficult emotions. These methods are applied flexibly to suit each person’s needs.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Natalie works with clients to explore which methods align with their goals, preferences, and comfort level, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - provide flexibility and accessibility for people balancing work, family, or geographic constraints. These formats allow clients to engage in experiential and somatic work from home while maintaining regular, consistent contact with a licensed professional.