Psychotherapy and facilitation that reconnects
Supporting embodied healing, wholing and creative expression through somatic psychotherapy, depth oriented processes, dreamwork and exploration with the more-than-human world.
Based on Wodi Wodi country, Thirroul, Australia and serving worldwide.
Psychotherapy and facilitation that reconnects
Supporting embodied healing, wholing and creative expression through somatic psychotherapy, depth oriented processes, dreamwork and exploration with the more-than-human world.
Based on Wodi Wodi country, Thirroul, Australia and serving worldwide.
Come back to life
This might be for you if you are:
Recovering from patterns of overwhelm, anxiety, depression or disconnection.
Resolving trauma, adverse childhood experiences or disrupted attachment
Moving through grief, loss, or a life threshold.
Seeking a deeper relationship with the body and its wisdom.
Feeling called toward a more authentic, connected, and wholehearted way of being.
Exploring recurring challenges in relationships and belonging.
Ecosomatics is a holistic approach that honours the interconnectedness of mind, body and nature and supports us into right relationship with ourselves and our environment. Wellbeing is not just an inner experience. It is also a way of inhabiting the world. This approach supports both, by weaving inner work with gentle nature-based explorations designed to deepen, integrate, and enact the changes you are making.
Longing for greater meaning, purpose, depth and participation in life.
Navigating uncertainty, change, or identity transformation.
Cultivating and deepening imagination and creativity
Living with eco-anxiety, ecological grief, or a sense of rupture from the natural world.
Deepening your relationship with nature, place, and the more-than-human
community.
Come back to life
Ecosomatics is a holistic approach that honours the interconnectedness of mind, body and nature and supports us into right relationship with ourselves and our environment. Wellbeing is not just an inner experience. It is also a way of inhabiting the world. This approach supports both, by weaving inner work with gentle nature-based explorations designed to deepen, integrate, and enact the changes you are making.
Recovering from patterns of overwhelm, anxiety, depression or disconnection.
Resolving trauma, adverse childhood experiences or disrupted attachment
Moving through grief, loss, or a life threshold.
Seeking a deeper relationship with the body and its wisdom.
Feeling called toward a more authentic, connected, and wholehearted way of being.
Exploring recurring challenges in relationships and belonging.
Longing for greater meaning, purpose, depth and participation in life.
Navigating uncertainty, change, or identity transformation.
Cultivating and deepening imagination and creativity
Living with eco-anxiety, ecological grief, or a sense of rupture from the natural world.
Deepening your relationship with nature, place, and the more-than-human community.
This might be for you if you are:
Jake Phillips
I am a Master's-trained and PACFA-certified psychotherapist, facilitator, and inner wilderness guide. My professional focus is on somatic and experiential approaches that facilitate sustained transformation rather than short-term symptom relief.
My presence is gentle, trauma-informed, and collaborative. We work together to navigate each step of the journey. Wherever you are on your path, I aim to meet you with attunement, compassion, and curiosity.
“Jake has a gentleness and receptivity about him that made me feel very comfortable and supported through the counselling process. He allowed me to explore different ideas and themes in my life at my own pace, sensitively guiding me and offering direction where appropriate, but always allowing space and time for emotions and new concepts to arise and evolve. Jake was able to take the messy scramble that were my own thoughts about particular issues in my life, helping me to tenderly untangle them by creating physical symbols and rituals to ground an exploratory and healing process into reality.”
A.D. Tasmania
“During my sessions with Jake I felt safe, connected and heard. He helped me connect with my inner child and have deep realisations around where I can direct my focus and energy to grow in emotional maturity. I now have some valuable tools I can use to overcome deeply programmed responses that are impeding harmonious living. I am wholly grateful for the counselling I received from Jake.”
E.S. Western Australia
Jake Phillips
I am a Master's-trained and PACFA-certified psychotherapist, facilitator, and inner wilderness guide. My professional focus is on somatic and experiential approaches that facilitate sustained transformation rather than short-term symptom relief.
My presence is gentle, trauma-informed, and collaborative. We work together to navigate each step of the journey. Wherever you are on your path, I aim to meet you with attunement, compassion, and curiosity.
“Jake has a gentleness and receptivity about him that made me feel very comfortable and supported through the counselling process.”
A.D. Tasmania
“During my sessions with Jake I felt safe, connected and heard. . . I am wholly grateful for the counselling I received from Jake.”
E.S. Western Australia
A living tapestry
I offer four interwoven strands of work: somatic psychotherapy, wholing, creative depth, and dreamwork. Each strand complements and supports the others and we can draw from any one or all four according to your needs and preferences. All four strand are grounded in the body and rooted in relationship with the natural world.
When our nervous system feels safe, we naturally come into connection with ourselves, others and the world around us. Somatic psychotherapy supports nervous system regulation by slowing down and mindfully connecting to our strengths, resources and agency in the present
moment.
Our work together is to nurture your innate impulse towards healing and growth.
We begin with the fundamental understanding that nothing is missing or broken. However, when aspects of the Self
are exiled, we lose the fullness of our vitality.
Wholing supports the cultivation and integration of all facets of the Self into a
more alive, responsive, and authentic way
of being, and helps us to re-member our co-participation and belonging amongst the more-than-human world.
Creative depth is an ever-present feature of
a living universe. The wider field of life is always seeking expression and form. Cultivating a relationship with creative
depth is a practice of listening and offering
in return. It is a gift received with gratitude and offered back with reverence.
This work is for you if you yearn to cultivate and offer your gifts in the remarkable and singular way that only you can.
Dreams offer a window into the stirrings of the unconscious. They are meaningful worlds that emerge from the ongoing interplay between the depths of the psyche and the wider web of life.
Our work is not to interpret, but to deepen the dreamer’s embodied experience of the dream world. By creating space and staying in relationship with what arises, we allow the gifts of the dream to emerge.
A living tapestry
I offer four interwoven strands of work: somatic psychotherapy, wholing, creative depth, and dreamwork. Each strand complements and supports the others and we can draw from any one or all four according to your needs and preferences. All four strand are grounded in the body and rooted in relationship with the natural world.
When our nervous system feels safe, we naturally come into connection with ourselves, others and the world around us. Somatic psychotherapy supports nervous system regulation by slowing down and mindfully connecting to our strengths, resources and agency in the present
moment.
Our work together is to nurture your innate impulse towards healing and growth.
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We begin with the fundamental understanding that nothing is missing or broken. However, when aspects of the Self are exiled, we lose the fullness of our vitality.
Wholing supports the cultivation and integration of all facets of the Self into a more alive, responsive, and authentic way of being, and helps us to re-member our co-participation and belonging amongst the more-than-human world.
Read more
Creative depth is an ever-present feature of
a living universe. The wider field of life is always seeking expression and form. Cultivating a relationship with creative depth is a practice of listening and offering in return. It is a gift received with gratitude and offered back with reverence.
This work is for you if you yearn to cultivate and offer your gifts in the remarkable and singular way that only you can.
Read more
Dreams offer a window into the stirrings of the unconscious. They are meaningful worlds that emerge from the ongoing interplay between the depths of the psyche and the wider web of life.
Our work is not to interpret, but to deepen the dreamer’s embodied experience of the dream world. By creating space and staying in relationship with what arises, we allow the gifts of the dream to emerge.
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A conversation between the ancient and new
We work at the meeting place between contemporary neuroscience and timeless practices of healing and reconnection. The science of predictive processing and memory reconsolidation provides a wholistic, evidence-based scaffolding for effective and lasting change, and guides all that we do. Nature provides the archetypal patterns of transformation, and pan-cultural practices of embodied listening, movement, imagination, dreaming, ritual and deep reverence for life offer a path to re-member our true nature, innate wisdom, resourcefulness
and place in the web of life. The work I offer integrates sensorimotor psychotherapy, the nature-based map of the human psyche, process-oriented psychology and ecosomatic practices from a variety of lineages and teachers.
Each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
— Rachel Carson
A conversation between the ancient and new
We work at the meeting place between contemporary neuroscience and timeless practices of healing and reconnection. The science of predictive processing and memory reconsolidation provides a wholistic, evidence-based scaffolding for effective and lasting change, and guides all that we do. Nature provides the archetypal patterns of transformation, and pan-cultural practices of embodied listening, movement, imagination, dreaming, ritual and deep reverence for life offer a path to re-member our true nature, innate wisdom, resourcefulness and place in the web of life. The work I offer integrates sensorimotor psychotherapy, the nature-based map of the human psyche, process-oriented psychology and ecosomatic practices from a variety of lineages and teachers.
“Each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.”
- Rachel Carson
So, how does it work in practice?
I offer a blend of somatic psychotherapy and facilitation with personalised nature-based invitations for you to explore independently in your local environment.
Our sessions provide a space to slow down and turn inwards. There we listen with curiosity and respect to the body’s messages. As we make room for the sensations, emotions, images, movement impulses and thoughts that emerge, new perspective, capacities and insights take shape.
At the end of each session I offer a nature-based invitation for you to explore in your local environment in your own time. Each invitation is designed to support you to deepen, integrate or enact whatever emerges in our time together.
So, how does it work in practice?
I offer a blend of somatic psychotherapy and facilitation with personalised nature-based invitations for you to explore independently in your local environment.
Our sessions provide a space to slow down and turn inwards. There we listen with curiosity and respect to the body’s messages. As we make room for the sensations, emotions, images, movement impulses and thoughts that emerge, new perspective, capacities and insights take shape.
At the end of each session I offer a nature-based invitation for you to explore in your local environment in your own time. Each invitation is designed to support you to deepen, integrate or enact whatever emerges in our time together.
