Somatic Womankind

Women’s and Pelvic Health Physiotherapy

Kelly has worked with thousands of women in both the public and private sector, supporting improved pelvic and holistic health outcomes across the lifespan. Graduating from the University of Queensland in 2008 with a Masters of Physiotherapy Studies, Kelly spent her early career on hospital ward rotation, including rehabilitation, surgical and intensive care. She completed her initial pelvic floor training in 2011 and has since undertaken extensive additional training in women’s and pelvic health enabling her to support you with:

Hormonal and pelvic floor conditions

• Pelvic organ prolapse including pessary fittings
• Peri-menopause and menopause
• Endometriosis, Adenomyosis and PCOS
• Dyspareunia (pain with penetration) and sexual dysfunction
• Vulval pain – vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, pudendal neuralgia
• Any other pelvic pain conditions
• Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction – weakness / overactivity
• Preparation and recovery after Gynaecological surgery

Bladder Conditions

• Overactive bladder
• Incontinence including stress and urge incontinence
• Painful Bladder Syndrome / Interstitial Cystitis
• Frequency, urgency and voiding dysfunction

Bowel Conditions

• Bowel incontinence
• Haemorrhoids /anal fissures
• Bowel urgency
• Constipation / diarrhoea
• IBS

Pregnancy and post-natal support

• Pelvic girdle pain / low back pain
• Rib and thoracic pain
• Rectus Diastasis and abdominal wall dysfunction
• Exercise in pregnancy
• Birth Preparation – incl. perineal massage, positioning, breathwork and full pelvic floor for birth function assessment
• Rehabilitation following perineal tearing and anal sphincter injury
• Scar management
• Pelvic floor dysfunction – incontinence, prolapse
• Painful penetration
• Return to exercise post-natally
• Rehab support following Caesarean Section

Kelly understands that your story is unique and provides additional time in all appointments to really get to know you, your history, your goals and support you to reconnect with yourself, your body and your inner intuition.

Providing a fusion of modern physiotherapy techniques and traditional yoga and somatic practices, Kelly is dedicated to holistic and integrative pelvic health care, empowering you towards deeply embodied pelvic health.

Yoga

With over 20 years yoga practice experience, Kelly is a a certified Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork teacher.

Yoga offerings include:

• one-on-one therapeutic yoga for your specific health concerns, pain, and somatic release
• mini-retreats
• as part of pelvic health physiotherapy and coaching appointments

Yoga offerings are trauma-informed and sensitive. Kelly has completed extensive additional training in trauma-sensitive practice and aims empower you with choice and a felt sense of safety.

Somatic Embodiment Coaching

As a pelvic health physiotherapist, Kelly is a highly trained and experienced body worker. She has also completed extensive additional training in a variety of other body-based (somatic) therapies including yoga, meditation, breathwork, nervous system health, stress as a body sensation and trauma-informed care.

Somatic coaching is a powerful way to support you to return to your body, to connect with your body’s inner messages, to work with chronic pain conditions (in particular persistent pelvic pain) and release muscle patterns and tensions that are holding you back from living to your fullest.

Supporting you to deeply work through resistance to change, enhance your life force energy, ability to regulate your nervous system and to support you to live life in a deeply connected and embodied way.

‘The Somatic Woman Gathers’

Small, intimate group gatherings for women ready to deep dive back into loving, non-judgemental, attentive somatic connection.

Designed to support you to to create felt safety in your body, to connect to its messages and use somatic movement, breath and awareness to release tension, stress and emotions held in the body.  Supporting nervous system regulation, connection, greater energy, creativity and joy.

Various somatic techniques will be practiced to both create safety and awareness, and allow gentle release of deep held emotions, body sensation, tension and pain.

Circles will run monthly with different themes including:
Creating safety
Comparison
Grief
Anger and Rage
Joy

Sharing and speaking is optional.
Sessions are trauma-informed.

Online Offerings

Kelly offers a variety of online services and courses including:

Telehealth for rural and remote clients, clients who have difficulties getting into Toowoomba, or women who would like to engage with Kelly from other regions in Australia. Telehealth is an evidence-based method of delivering pelvic health outcomes and can be used to support you when you cant make it into the clinic space

Soothe. A healing balm for your pelvic pain.

An online program comprising 8 modules released fortnightly to support you to understand persistent pain, the nervous system, the role of hormones and the menstrual cycle, the stress response, exercise and more in your persistent pelvic pain. Includes practical somatic, yoga, breathwork and movement practices to support you to feel grounded, safe and in control of your pain. Grounded in the latest pain evidence.

Yoga Nidra – a free, relaxing embodiment practice to support you to relax, rest and feel deeply connected to your body and soul

Stretches for New Mums – a simple and free online course to support you to ease those aches and pains from feeding and caring for your baby.

Masterclasses

Birthwise

“why did no-one tell me this could happen?”

Too many women ask this when coming in for a postnatal appointment – why did no-one tell them about the risks and potential pelvic floor damage with different birth types and interventions.

Research demonstrates that high quality pelvic floor and birth trauma education decreases both:

• your chances and severity of pelvic floor trauma and
• significant psychological distress if you do experience pelvic trauma

In this workshop you will learn:

• all about your pelvic floor, where and what it is, its function, how to connect to it
• how your pelvic floor changes in pregnancy
• what your pelvic floor needs to do in birth
• the potential risks of common birth interventions to your pelvic floor
• how you can determine your individual risk factors
• things you can do to support your pelvic floor for birth
• also Includes information on the impact of Caesarean birth on your core and pelvic floor

The session closes with a short somatic practice for pelvic floor connection, awareness and relaxation to support your birth and pelvic health.

Perimenopause

Peri/menopause is having a moment, and more and more women are coming to understand the enormous shift that occurs at this time of life. With over 35 different symptoms, peri-menopause presents in different ways for women and can be a confusing time.

You may have noticed things like difficulty sleeping, rage and irritability, anxiety, weight gain, irregular cycles, heavier/painful bleeds, bladder urgency, recurrent urinary tract infections, migraines, brain fog, itchy skin, low libido (so much more than just hot flashes!)

In this masterclass, Kelly covers the hormonal changes and shifts of this time of life, how to support yourself with exercise and healthy habits and why lifting and weight bearing exercise become VITAL at this time of life.

To register your interest in these masterclasses, please email Kelly at hello@somaticwomankind.com.au