Integrative Complex Trauma Therapy & Somatic Psychotherapy
Haritha Jonnalagadda offers specialist trauma therapy for adults, couples and families with complex and developmental trauma and is based in Brisbane and Australia. She specialise in working trauma recovery from childhood attachment trauma (abuse & neglect), dissociation and chronic pain and related somatic symptoms.
Brisbane (Ashgrove | Mt Gravatt | Bardon) & Telehealth
Are you tired of wondering if things will ever change?
If you will ever feel whole, safe, connected to yourself and in your relationships?
Are childhood trauma, chronic pain, and dissociation keeping you from feeling whole and present in your life?
Does this sound familiar?
You've spent years in talk therapy, but you still feel stuck in the same patterns, your body holds onto pain, fatigue and trauma that words alone can't seem to reach.
You experience unexplained chronic pain, tension, or physical symptoms that doctors can't fully explain or treat.
You often feel disconnected from your body; numb, shut down, or like you're watching your life from the outside looking in.
You oscillate between being flooded with overwhelming emotions and feeling completely numb, with no middle ground.
You recognize patterns from your childhood trauma showing up in your relationships, your work, and your daily life, but you can't seem to break free from them.
Despite your best efforts to "think your way out" of these challenges, your nervous system keeps pulling you back into old survival responses.
You may also struggle with…
Fragmentation & Dissociation
You feel like different parts of you are in conflict, one part wants to heal, another part wants to stay protected. You lose time, feel disconnected from your experiences, or struggle to feel like a coherent whole person. Living in fragments keeps you from accessing your full strength and resources.
Attachment Wounds & Relational Patterns
Your early relationships taught you that the world isn't safe, and those patterns continue to play out in your adult relationships. You struggle with boundaries, people-pleasing, or pushing others away. You long for connection but your nervous system keeps signaling danger.
Chronic Pain & Somatic Symptoms
Your body carries the weight of unresolved trauma through persistent pain, tension, digestive issues, or other physical symptoms. Medical interventions provide limited relief because your body is holding trauma that needs to be processed, not just managed.
Feeling Trapped in Survival Mode & Burnout
Your body is stuck in survival responses—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—even when there's no current threat. You react to present-day situations as if you're still in danger. You know intellectually that you're safe now, but your body hasn't received that message.
Nervous System Dysregulation
You swing between states of hypervigilance (always on edge, anxious, scanning for danger) and hypoarousal (shut down, exhausted, numb). You can't seem to find that calm, regulated middle ground where you feel safe and present in your body.
Disconnection from Body Wisdom
You've learned to ignore or override your body's signals—hunger, tiredness, pain, pleasure, intuition. Years of dissociation and survival have taught you that it's safer to disconnect than to feel, but this disconnection is keeping you from healing and living fully.
You're ready for something different:
To finally feel safer in your body.
To integrate the protective and survival parts of you that are leaving you feeling dysregulated and learn to be in harmony.
To learn to regulate through chronic pain and shift from survival patterns.
You've read the books, listened to the podcasts, maybe even tried talk therapy before.
And yet nothing has led to the deeper, embodied healing you've been longing for.
YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!
Trauma not only conditions our mind into having protective belief systems that keep us safe from threat…it also conditions our body into patterned responses that reflect the traumas.
By tuning into the wisdom of the body, we can understand the inherent intelligent processes of the body and mind to discover the habitual, automatic attitudes (both physical and psychological).
This gentle and empowering approach is particularly helpful in working with the effects of trauma, relational trauma, and difficult past attachment relationships.
So why do nervous system focussed, movement & other somatic approaches work for trauma…?
Trauma permeates our physiology affecting more than just our core beliefs around how safe the world is. It disrupts our body functions, our ability to regulate our nervous system states and the deeper parts of our brain that control our emotional and survival responses.
Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Therapy and somatic movement interventions directly increase our nervous system’s capacity to recognize and distinguish between past and present threat and engage the appropriate defense responses to manage the experience of the threat.
They support conditions within our body that allow natural healing processes to reorganize and facilitate resolution of the stuck or buried trauma energy.
Somatic & Parts Therapy can help you…
Regulate your nervous system and move out of chronic survival states
Process trauma that's stored in your body, not just your mind
Reduce or resolve chronic pain and unexplained physical symptoms
Integrate dissociated parts and experience greater internal harmony
Develop somatic awareness and reconnect with your body's innate wisdom
Build capacity to feel your emotions without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down
Recognize when you're responding to past trauma versus present reality
Create healthier attachment patterns and more secure relationships
Reclaim vitality, pleasure, and the capacity to fully inhabit your life
Trauma imprints our physiology. A Nervous System approach and somatic healing is the pathway…
Hi, I’m Haritha
I am an Integrative Complex Trauma & Somatic Psychotherapist for adults with Childhood Attachment Trauma, Dissociation & Chronic Pain.
Finding the right therapist can be overwhelming, especially if you experience complex trauma and haven’t found a therapist who is able to work with the multiple ways in which trauma maybe impacting you.
I work with the parts of you that words alone can't reach.
Clients often come to me knowing intellectually what their trauma is and how it's affecting them, but their bodies haven't received that message. They've tried traditional talk therapy, but they're still stuck in the same patterns, still carrying pain in their bodies, still feeling disconnected and fragmented.
Sound familiar?
I'm the kind of therapist who understands that trauma lives in the body, not just the mind. We'll work with your nervous system, your somatic experiences, and the protective parts of you that developed to keep you safe. I'll help you build the capacity to be present with your experience: sensations, emotions, body wisdom ; without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down. If you work with me, we'll honor where you are in your healing journey and move at a pace that feels safe for your nervous system.
I work with adults who are ready to do deep, body-based healing work, and who are open to approaches that go beyond traditional talk therapy. I'll bring my authentic presence, my expertise in trauma and nervous system healing, and my commitment to creating a safe, regulated space where transformation can happen.
All you need to do is bring your willingness to reconnect with your body's wisdom. And together, we'll walk toward the healing you've been waiting for.
If I were to guess what you wanted for yourself…
A regulated nervous system where you can feel calm, present, and safe in your body—not constantly on edge or shut down.
Freedom from chronic pain and physical symptoms as you process the trauma your body has been holding.
Integration of your parts so you feel whole, coherent, and able to access all of your resources and strength.
The ability to feel your emotions without being overwhelmed by them or numbing out completely.
Secure, healthy relationships built on authentic connection rather than survival patterns and attachment wounds.
A deep sense of embodiment where you can trust your body's signals, feel pleasure, and inhabit your life fully.
What if you could finally feel at home in your body? What if healing felt real—like, truly viscerally real?
Specializing in…
Nervous System Dysregulation
You're either in constant survival mode—anxious, hypervigilant, on edge—or completely shut down, numb, and exhausted. You swing between these extremes with no calm middle ground. With nervous system regulation work, you can build capacity to feel safe and present in your body, moving out of chronic survival states.
Complex & Relational Trauma
You're not even sure if you'd call it "trauma"—but looking back, most of your life has felt hard. Most of your relationships have left you feeling hurt. Your body carries the weight of experiences that words can't quite capture. With somatic trauma therapy, you can process what's stored in your body and discover a life that's grounded in the present, not haunted by the past.
Chronic Pain & Somatic Symptoms
Your body holds tension, pain, and symptoms that doctors can't fully explain or treat. You know there's something deeper going on—something connected to your trauma and nervous system. Somatic therapy helps you address the root causes of chronic pain, releasing what your body has been holding and finding relief that actually lasts.
Dissociation & Parts Work
You feel fragmented, like different parts of you are in conflict or disconnected from each other. You lose time, feel detached from your experiences, or struggle to feel like a coherent whole person. Through parts work and structural dissociation approaches, you can help these parts communicate, collaborate, and integrate so you can feel whole again.
Approaches
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Sensorimotor & Somatic Psychotherapies
Sensorimotor & Somatic Psychotherapies work directly with the body's sensations, movements, and physical experiences to process trauma. These approaches recognize that trauma is stored in the body and nervous system, not just the mind. By bringing awareness to bodily sensations, gestures, and movement patterns, clients can complete survival responses that were interrupted during traumatic experiences and develop new, adaptive patterns that support healing and regulation.
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Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment & Parts Work
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment & Parts Work uses a phase-based approach to healing, prioritizing safety and stabilization before processing trauma. This method recognizes that trauma can cause fragmentation of the self into different parts or states. Through compassionate parts work, clients learn to understand, communicate with, and integrate these protective and wounded parts, creating internal collaboration and coherence rather than conflict.
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Somatic Movement
Somatic Movement utilizes intentional, mindful movement practices to release trauma held in the body, increase body awareness, and develop new patterns of relating to physical sensations. Movement becomes a language for processing what words cannot express, helping clients reconnect with their bodies, release chronic tension and pain, and build capacity for embodied presence and pleasure.
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Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory provides a framework for understanding how the autonomic nervous system responds to safety and threat. This approach helps clients recognize their nervous system states—social engagement, fight/flight, or shutdown—and develop practices to shift between these states intentionally. By building awareness of nervous system patterns, clients can cultivate regulation, safety, and the capacity for authentic connection with themselves and others.
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Attachment Based Framework & DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy)
Attachment Based Framework & DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) focuses on healing relational trauma and attachment wounds through the therapeutic relationship itself. This approach recognizes that early attachment experiences shape how we relate to ourselves and others. Through attuned, responsive therapeutic presence and co-regulation, clients can develop earned secure attachment, repair developmental trauma, and build capacity for healthy, connected relationships.
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Movement Science
Movement Science applies research-based understanding of how the body moves, holds tension, and responds to stress to inform therapeutic interventions. This approach integrates knowledge of biomechanics, neuroscience, and embodiment to help clients understand their physical patterns, release chronic holding, and develop more adaptive ways of inhabiting their bodies that support both physical and emotional wellbeing.
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Dissociative Disorders & Structural Dissociation Framework
Dissociative Disorders & Structural Dissociation Framework provides a comprehensive understanding of how trauma can cause the personality to fragment into distinct parts or subsystems, each holding different experiences, emotions, and functions. This framework recognizes dissociation as an adaptive survival response to overwhelming trauma, particularly in childhood. Through specialized therapeutic approaches, clients can work with different parts of their personality structure—emotional parts that hold traumatic memories and experiences, and apparently normal parts that manage daily functioning—to achieve greater integration, cooperation, and wholeness.
Therapy in Brisbane & Online Across Australia
You need flexibility and convenience.
I offer sessions in person at my Brisbane practices (Ashgrove, Mt Gravatt, Bardon) and via telehealth throughout Australia. Whether you're in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, or anywhere else across Australia, you can access somatic and parts therapy from the comfort of your home or any confidential space.
Online therapy works just as effectively for somatic and body-based approaches when adapted thoughtfully. I'm experienced in guiding clients through nervous system regulation, parts work, and somatic awareness practices via telehealth, ensuring you receive the same quality of care regardless of location.
Ready to get started?
Find your fit: We'll schedule a 15 Minute complimentary consultation where I can answer your questions and you can determine if we're a good fit before you commit.
Focus on you: Join me for regular sessions (weekly or fortnightly) or for an intensive to work through trauma, chronic pain, dissociation, and nervous system dysregulation using body-based approaches tailored to your needs.
Feel whole and embodied: Develop nervous system regulation, integrate fragmented parts, release chronic pain, build somatic awareness, and reclaim your capacity to feel safe, present, and alive in your body.
