Meet Vicki.
I’m a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Coach based in Auckland, New Zealand. I support clients both online and in person. Premises are in Albany, on Auckland’s North Shore. I also operate from premises in Parnell in Auckland City by negotiation.
Through somatic work, we can support you to:
Shift out of patterns of chronic survival activation and toward a more regulated nervous system state.
Gently reduce long-standing cycles of anxiety, stress activation, and feeling physiologically stuck.
Gently work with chronic pain, fatigue, post-traumatic stress related symptoms, and other persistent patterns through a nervous-system informed approach to regulation and capacity building.
Support improved functional boundaries, steadiness, and ease in daily life by reducing overactivation and shutdown patterns in the nervous system.
Build greater internal stability, awareness of your physiological state, and confidence in your ability to regulate and recover.
Free up energy and capacity that is currently being used for survival-based coping and stress adaptation.
If you’d like to explore working together, please email me to request an initial session, or to make an enquiry.
my background
I’m a Certified Coach with over ten years’ experience and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP). I hold a Bachelor of Health Science in Psychology. I have completed wide-ranging studies in somatic (body-based) coaching and nervous system regulation, and have participated in my own Somatic Experiencing® sessions for over eight years. I regularly engage in professional supervision to support safe, ethical, and competent practice, and to continue developing my skills.
I am also an endorsed Coach for the Aotearoa NZ Public Service through the Leadership Development Centre and an All of Government Panel Approved Supplier of Coaching Services. This means I have completed a rigorous process to evaluate my coaching skills and experience in order to provide coaching services to public sector leaders.
My professional background is in people, programme and funding management in the health, social, philanthropic and community sectors.
Credentials
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) (3 year professional training programme, 2023-2025)
Certified Life Coach (Martha Beck Institute). Additional training in Somatic Coaching, and Professional Coaching (SIT).
Nervous System Know-How for Practitioners (Nervous System RESET)
All of Government Panel Approved Supplier of Coaching Services (NZ).
Pre-Qualified Coach for the Leadership Development Centre, serving the NZ Public Service.
Bachelor of Health Science in Psychology and Health Promotion, PG Cert in Public Health.
my journey to this work
My path to this work emerged from my own lived experience with a highly sensitive nervous system. Over time, the strategies I had relied on — working harder, overriding, staying composed — became unsustainable. I eventually reached a point where my nervous system needed a different kind of support.
Somatic Experiencing® was the first approach that truly met me where I was. It offered a way of working that didn’t demand I push past my capacity, but instead helped me listen to it. This modality felt deeply right: grounded, respectful, and paced enough for my sensitive system to engage and heal.
Because of this, I bring both professional training and personal understanding to my work. I know the terrain of chronic stress and trauma from the inside, as well as through formal study. I understand how disorienting and exhausting it can be — and also how transformative it is to develop a more regulated, resourced relationship with your body.
My intention with every client is to walk alongside you — to understand your unique history, your nervous system, and the conditions that support your healing. I work with great care around pacing, boundaries, and safety — and I bring that sensitivity into every session.
ABOUT MY SCOPE
Please note: I offer somatic and nervous system–based therapeutic support. I do not provide clinical mental health diagnosis, assessment, or talk therapy. If you are currently under psychiatric care or require medical/clinical treatment, my work can complement — but does not replace — those supports. I reserve the right to refer clients out should we not be a good fit or if the work is outside my practice scope.
