Maria Sideri

Couples Somatic Release Psychotherapy Sessions

Step into a safely held space for two, where your relationship is met with care, honesty, and practical support. Here, we work gently with your emotions, bodies and patterns so you can move from disconnection and tension into a more regulated, trusting bond.

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Intro

A nurturing container where your bodies and minds can deeply realign as a couple.

Somatic Release for Couples is an embodied, clinically grounded approach to relationship work. Rather than focusing only on communication skills or “fixing” surface conflicts, we turn toward the deeper relational patterns that live in your nervous systems, your bodies, and the space between you.

In Couples Somatic Release Sessions, we create a shared therapeutic space for both of you, where your patterns of conflict, distance, and closeness can be safely seen, felt, and gently reshaped together.

Clinical Integrity & Trust

This is a professional, non‑judgmental space for both of you. We move at a pace that feels safe, grounded, and realistic for your current life, while I hold a clear frame that protects each partner and supports the relationship as a whole.

Co‑Regulation & Connection

In our work together, we pay attention not just to your words, but to how your bodies respond to each other. By learning how to work with somatic signals, you learn how to turns moments of stress into chances to strengthen your bond.

Integration & Tangible Change

Our work doesn’t end when the session does. You leave with clear tools and a felt sense of what is possible between you, so you can bring new ways of speaking, pausing, and repairing into your everyday life and see real change in how you live together.

Is Somatic Release right for your relationship?

Couples come to this practice seeking relief, closeness, and a return to warmth. You may be trying to resolve a persistent cycle of conflict, or perhaps you are looking to deepen a bond that has grown quiet over the years. We work with the body and the mind to restore your natural rhythm as a couple, addressing the roots of your experience together.

↠ Resolving Conflict Cycles: You may find yourselves having the same fight over and over without really getting to the root. We work to release the underlying responses, so that you can clear the way for true vulnerability and genuine repair.

↠ Restoring Intimacy & Desire: We create a conscious, respectful space to help you cultivate a relationship with physical closeness and pleasure that feels authentic, deeply safe, and joyful for both partners.

↠ Navigating Life Transitions: Parenthood, illness, or work changes can shake your foundations. Even when you love each other, you may feel out of sync. In our sessions, we help you stay grounded and physically present with one another as you navigate new chapters as a team.

↠ Deepening Mutual Understanding: You will develop a profound, compassionate awareness of how you each respond to stress. This clarity gives you the ability to support one another with grace during difficult moments.

Whether you are here to repair, to deepen, or to decide what is truly right for both of you, this work offers a grounded place to explore those questions together.

Methodology

The Anatomy of a Session

Each couples session offers a calm, contained space where both of you can be fully met. We move slowly between what is said, what is felt in your bodies, and what happens between you, so that the changes you experience are safe, practical, and rooted in your real relationship.

Here are some of the core elements you can expect us to navigate together:

Somatic Tracking for Two

We pay close attention to what happens in each of your bodies as you interact: changes in breath, posture, tone, and energy. This helps you both recognise the moments you usually shut down, explode, or pull away, and opens up new possibilities of staying present together.

Movement-Based Release

Through respectful and curious movement interventions, we invite your bodies to release some of what they have been holding, so your nervous systems can create more room for ease, warmth, and honest contact between you.

Relational & Transpersonal Inquiry

Your relationship does not exist in isolation. We look at the wider context that shapes how you love and protect yourselves—family history, culture, previous patterns, and current life pressures. From there, we clarify what kind of partnership you consciously want to build.

Reflective Integration

Throughout the session, we make sense of what has happened between you. We put words to the patterns we’ve seen, the moments of contact or distance, and the new possibilities that appeared. Each session becomes something you can both remember and use at home.

About

Maria Sideri, lead psychotherapist and educator in the field of Somatic Release.

For over 20 years, I have supported individuals in therapeutic settings and trained professionals in integrative body-oriented psychotherapy approaches incorporating movement, creativity, and emotional process work.

My professional path has brought together psychology, movement-based therapeutic practices, contemplative approaches, and body-centered methodologies from different traditions. These experiences have shaped an integrative understanding of well-being grounded in the connection between body, mind, emotion, and nervous system regulation.

Steps

How booking a session works 

To help you feel supported from the very first contact, I keep the booking process simple and personal. You reach out to me directly, we confirm together whether it feels like a good fit, and then you receive a secure payment link to reserve your session in advance. This way, our time can be fully dedicated to your therapeutic work, with practicalities already taken care of.

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Step 1: Get in touch with me

Send me a message through the contact form or by email, sharing a few words about what you’d like support with and your availability.

Step 2: Receive your secure checkout link

I’ll send you a private Stripe checkout link where you can securely pay for your session in advance.

Step 3: Confirm your date and time

After payment, you’ll receive a confirmation email with your session date, time, and connection details (online or in person, depending on availability).

Step 4: Have your session

At the scheduled time, we’ll meet for your Somatic Release Psychotherapy Session and begin working together.

Testimonials

Kind words from couples I’ve worked with

Over the years, I have had the honor to work alongside hundreds of people. From therapy sessions to certification training paths that spanned years, I have witnessed countless journeys of growth, healing, and transformation. The following words are reflections from those who have shared this path with me.

We began therapy with Maria seeking support to resolve some conflicts and to feel accompanied as a couple.

The sessions have brought us a lot of clarity and provided us with several tools to navigate difficult moments and transform them into opportunities for deep connection. Session after session, we have built greater intimacy, improved our communication and trust as a couple, and thanks to this, our relationship has grown stronger.

What we appreciate most about Maria is her professionalism, her deep knowledge and experience with relationships, as well as her empathy and depth. To this day, she continues to be a source of support for us whenever we want to work through a process together.

Thank you so much, Maria!

— Carol and Victor

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

When you are considering beginning a new therapeutic process, it is natural to arrive with questions. Below, I’ve addressed the most common inquiries to provide a clear sense of our work together, helping you choose a path that feels right for your current capacity and needs.

Many couples therapies focus mainly on communication skills, problem‑solving, or negotiating compromises.

In Couples Somatic Release, we include these, but we also pay close attention to how your bodies and nervous systems react while you are interacting. Instead of only analysing arguments, we notice the moments you tense, shut down, speed up, or pull away—and we work directly with those reactions.

This helps change happen not just in your ideas about the relationship, but in how you actually feel and respond to each other in real time.

This work can support you if you are stuck in repeating arguments, feeling distant or more like flatmates than partners, dealing with breaks in trust, struggling with intimacy and desire, or feeling overwhelmed by life transitions.

 It is particularly helpful when you both care about the relationship, but your usual ways of talking either escalate conflict or shut everything down. We look at the patterns underneath these struggles and gently open up new possibilities for connection.

It is very common for one partner to feel more motivated than the other at the beginning. You do not need to arrive with the same level of enthusiasm. What matters is that both of you are willing to show up, be honest about your experience, and treat each other with basic respect in the sessions. Often, as the more hesitant partner feels safer and starts to experience the benefits, their motivation naturally grows.

Ambivalence is welcome here. You do not have to be certain about your future together in order to begin this work. In fact, therapy can offer a structured, caring space to explore those questions. We slow things down, look at what is really happening between you, and support both of you in becoming clearer about what you want—whether that means repair, deepening commitment, or an honest, respectful separation.

Absolutely. Some couples rarely argue but feel lonely in the relationship, or notice that warmth, desire, or curiosity have faded. In our work together, we give language to this distance and pay attention to the subtle ways you turn away from each other. We then explore gentle, practical ways of rebuilding contact, so you can feel more like partners again, not just people sharing responsibilities.

Yes, if both partners are open to including this area in our work. Difficulties with desire, arousal, or physical closeness often have roots in stress, shame, past experiences, and nervous system patterns. We approach sexuality with great care, moving at a pace that feels safe. Our focus is not on performance, but on rebuilding trust, communication, and a sense of choice and ease in your intimate connection.

My role is to support the relationship and the well‑being of both partners, not to act as a judge. Instead of deciding who is right, I help you see the pattern you are both caught in and how each of you contributes to and suffers from it. At the same time, I will be clear and firm about any dynamics that are harmful, and we will address those directly with care and boundaries.

Couples sessions are 90 minutes and are typically held every two weeks. This spacing gives you time to integrate and practise between sessions while keeping enough continuity for the work to stay alive. Rather than fixing a rigid length from the start, we will look together at your intentions, your capacity, and how the process is unfolding. As a general frame, I recommend an initial commitment of at least eight sessions so that deeper, more sustainable change has time to emerge.

You do not need to prepare anything elaborate. Simply bring yourselves, as you are, and a willingness to be as honest as feels possible. If you like, you can arrive with a few examples of recent moments that felt difficult or important in your relationship. From there, I will guide you step by step, so you never have to manage the process alone.

Bookings

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Sessions are held primarily online via a secure video platform, allowing us to build a deep therapeutic container wherever you are in the world. In‑person sessions are also available periodically in Athens and Barcelona, depending on current availability.

↠ Single Session: 160 EUR

↠ Duration: 90 Minutes

↠ Frequency: Sessions are typically held every two weeks. I recommend a minimum of eight sessions to give your relationship the continuity it needs for new patterns of safety, intimacy, and communication to take root in the reality of your shared life.

Please use the form below to send me your booking request, and I will respond as soon as possible. You can also reach me directly via email at info@mariasideri.com.

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