Individual Somatic Release Psychotherapy

Intro

A dedicated container where your system finds the safety to reorganise and release.

In a world that constantly asks you to be productive, available, and composed, it’s easy to carry a weight you haven’t yet had the space to name. Whether you're an over‑achiever holding everything together, a creative individual whose mind never rests, or a highly sensitive person feeling every room you enter, what you long for is not another coping strategy, but a way to feel genuinely at home in your own system.

In our Individual Sessions, we create a psychotherapeutic container uniquely for you, where precise Somatic Release work softens chronic patterns and restores the inner spaciousness needed to meet your life with grounded clarity, and ease.

Clinical Integrity & Trust

This is a professional space where you are invited to settle exactly as you are. We honor your unique pace to make sure every shift is grounded and resilient, fostering a therapeutic partnership that respects your history and your future.

Curiosity-Led Exploration

We replace the pressure to 'fix' with restorative curiosity. Together, we explore the subtle shifts of your internal landscape, uncovering exactly what your organism needs to return to a state of fluid ease.

Integration & Tangible Change

These sessions transform therapeutic insights into a tangible, embodied reality. By resolving long-held patterns at their roots, we foster the internal room you need to show up more fully in your life.

Is Somatic Release the right fit for you?

People come to this practice at different moments, but they share a singular intention: the desire to feel more relieved, connected, grounded, and aligned. Whether you are seeking to resolve a persistent 'stuckness' or looking to inhabit your life with greater vitality and grounded presence, we work with body and mind to address the roots of your experience and restore your natural rhythm.

↠ Navigating Anxiety & Panic: When anxiety feels like it’s taking over, we work to transform those overwhelming sensations into a manageable, lived sense of safety and internal regulation.
↠ Releasing Stored History: We help your system finally let go of the "bracing"—that physical record of trauma and chronic stress your body has been holding onto to keep you safe.
↠ Honoring Intimacy & Desire: Whether you are navigating your sexuality alone or with a partner, we create a conscious space to help you cultivate a relationship with pleasure and intimacy that feels authentic and deeply inhabited.
↠ Cultivating Emotional Maturity: You’ll develop a more sophisticated and compassionate understanding of your inner world, giving you the clarity to navigate your relationships without the old reactivity.
↠ Deepening Self-Discovery: Moving beyond "symptom relief" to explore the psychological and somatic dynamics that shape your sense of self.

Ultimately, these sessions are a space to stop 'managing' your life and start inhabiting it. You deserve a life where you aren't just functioning, but truly flourishing: anchored in a body that feels safer, a mind that feels clearer, and a spirit that is freer to move in its own rhythm.

Methodology

The Anatomy of a Session

A typical session is spacious, dynamic, and deeply collaborative. In this non-performative space, we apply a proven methodology designed to move you fluidly between your story, your biology, and the wider systemic field you belong to, ensuring that every psychosomatic shift is grounded in clinical integrity.

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

Somatic Tracking & Interoception

We practice listening to the language of your body. By paying close attention to physical signals, we can turn vague feelings of stress and unease into a living conversation with your own potential for relief.

Movement-Based Release

Through respectful and curious movement interventions, we invite your body to express what has been suppressed at a cellular level. These interventions help you shift from feeling "stuck" into new ways of expression.

Systemic & Transpersonal Inquiry

We look at the bigger picture of your life, acknowledging the family roots, cultural influences, and wider systemic fields that shape your individual experience. By honoring these dynamics, we move beyond individual struggle to find a grounded sense of place and belonging within the world at large.

Reflective Integration

We use verbal psychotherapeutic exploration to anchor your somatic shifts into a conscious narrative. By connecting physical release to your history and patterns, we ensure your transformation is fully understood and integrated, turning raw sensation into a lasting state of coherence.

Maria Sideri, Psychologist, Integrative Somatic Psychotherapist, and Creator of the Somatic Release Method (SRM).

For over 20 years, I have supported individuals in private practice as well as trained and certified hundreds of therapists in Transpersonal Psychosomatic Therapy through Movement, Dance, and Creativity.

My own path has braided together psychology, meditation, movement, and holistic traditions from around the world. These experiences have taught me that true well-being is found in the integration of body, mind, and soul.

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.

Book a Session

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

Once we’ve confirmed that we’re a good fit to work together, 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 former patients

Over the years, I have had the privilege of accompanying many people through therapeutic and professional training journeys. Each experience has been unique, allowing me to witness processes of deep self-awareness, growth, and personal transformation. The reflections below come from people who have shared part of this path with me.

Maria walked with me through a difficult phase of my life.

She helped me move, quite literally, with my body, but also as a human being.

Obviously, Maria is a professional. But also, throughout this process, she met me on eye level, as a human being.

I am grateful for Maria's kindness, her patience, and the human warmth I felt during our encounters. And, from a certain point, we laughed together a lot, which I appreciate very, very much.

— Hanno

Experiencing my personal process through movement and dance, with Maria’s guidance, has been a true gift from the very beginning to the lasting imprint it’s left on me. It’s a gift I allowed myself, as someone who deserves to enjoy life from a place of Being.

Thanks to this work, I have learned to “stay” even when my old patterns urge me to run away. To stay in a job, in a relationship, in life, but with fullness. I’ve learned to listen to my soul through my body, to let it express itself, to dance. To give my anger a place and a home within me, recognizing and accepting it.

I have truly felt supported and deeply cared for. It’s been a heartfelt and enriching experience.

— Marta Ortega

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.

In many traditional talk therapies, the primary focus is on thoughts, stories, and insight: understanding what happened, why it matters, and how it affects you now. Somatic Release includes all of this, but adds another layer: your body and nervous system become active partners in the process.

Rather than only “talking about” your experience, we notice what your body does as you experience and share different things: tightening, collapsing, speeding up, going blank, or becoming restless. We then work directly with these patterns using somatic tracking, orientation, subtle movement, and inquiry. This allows some of the “stuckness” to shift at the level where it actually lives, like in your muscles, your gut, your breath, your capacity to be with sensations—not just in your thoughts about them.

Somatic Release addresses the deep-seated states where intellectual insight has reached its limit. It is specifically designed for the physiological residue of burnout, chronic stress, and high-stakes anxiety—the places where the nervous system is still bracing against a pressure your mind can’t "think" its way out of.

We work with the "stuck" patterns of survival, such as persistent numbness, relational loops of withdrawal or over-accommodation, and the after-effects of overwhelming experiences that continue to live in your breath and posture. Whether you are navigating a period of visible upheaval or a systemic sense of exhaustion, this work helps you reclaim your biological agency, moving you toward a state of lived coherence where you can finally inhabit your life with a settled heart.

No. Many people come precisely because they feel disconnected from their body: numb, shut down, over‑activated, or unable to “switch off” internally. Others feel a lot (sometimes too much) and worry that if they really pay attention to their body, they will be overwhelmed. All of these experiences are welcome.

We begin from wherever you honestly are, without forcing contact or chasing intense sensations. Part of the work is learning that you can meet your internal experience in small, manageable doses, with support.

Over time, this often leads to a quieter, more trustworthy relationship with your body: one in which sensation becomes less frightening and more like a guide — a way of knowing what you need, where your limits are, and what genuinely nourishes you.

There is no one-size-fits-all length for therapy, because each nervous system, history, and intention is different. Rather than setting a fixed timeline from the outset, we look together at what you are wanting support with, how your system responds to the work, and what feels realistic for your current capacity and life rhythm.

Sessions are 60 minutes and are typically held weekly or every two weeks. This frequency gives your system enough continuity to build safety and momentum, while also allowing time for integration between sessions. In most cases, I recommend an initial commitment of at least six months, so that we are not just “putting out fires,” but allowing deeper patterns to soften and reorganise in a sustainable way.

Over time, we will regularly review how you are feeling, what has shifted, and what you need next. Some people choose to work intensively for a period and then taper, while others prefer an ongoing, slower-paced process. We will always decide together, in conversation, so that the structure of therapy remains attuned to you.

How we’ll know if therapy is helping is something we keep track of together, not something you have to figure out alone.

Over time, we look for changes on several levels: how your body feels day to day (for example, less bracing, easier breath, or a sense of more internal room), how your emotional life is unfolding (more clarity, less reactivity, a kinder inner voice), and how you are moving through your relationships and daily responsibilities. Often the first signs are subtle — feeling a little more choice in moments that used to feel automatic, or noticing that situations which once overwhelmed you now feel more manageable.

We will regularly check in about what you are noticing, what feels different (even if only slightly), and where you still feel stuck. I will also share my clinical observations about how your nervous system is responding in the sessions: whether there is more capacity to stay present, to feel and integrate, and to return to a sense of internal steadiness after activation. If at any point it feels like the work is not supporting you in the way you need, we will talk about it openly and adjust the focus, rhythm, or goals of our work — or, if appropriate, explore other forms of support. My intention is that therapy feels like a living process that is responsive to you, and that its benefits are something you can feel not only in the session, but in the fabric of your everyday life.

Bookings

Book a Psychotherapy Session

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: 80 EUR

↠ Duration: 60 Minutes

↠ Frequency: Sessions are typically weekly or every two weeks, following your personal rhythm. I recommend a minimum six-month commitment to allow your system the necessary time to reorganize and fully integrate these shifts into your daily 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.

Individual Somatic Release Psychotherapy Sessions