Somatic Experiencing Therapy
Developed by Dr Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a naturalistic, body-oriented approach to trauma healing. It is rooted in the observation that wild animals, though regularly threatened, rarely become traumatised — because they are able to discharge survival energy through the body once danger has passed.
Humans share these same instinctive regulatory mechanisms, but our nervous systems are often prevented from completing this process. Unresolved survival energy becomes bound in the body, giving rise to a wide range of physical, emotional and psychological symptoms.
SE works gently with bodily sensation — the felt sense — to help people renegotiate rather than relive their trauma. As this held energy releases, symptoms often diminish, and a new sense of aliveness, resilience and connection becomes possible.
My Therapeutic Orientation
I work with all genders, and my practice reaches beyond the individual — into the social and cultural patterns we inherit, the ancestral threads that move through us across generations, and the more-than-human world that holds us whether we feel it or not. Repair, in this work, is not just personal. It is intergenerational and transgenerational, cultural and relational — a mending that ripples outward, through our families and communities, and into the wider web of life we belong to.
I am based in Ibiza, I offer sessions online and also where I live, in the garden — held by the presence of the natural world, and drawing on its resources as an active part of the healing process.
Qualifications & Training
I am a fully certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), having completed the beginner, intermediate and advanced training over five years. I have been practicing in 1:1 and group contexts for 14 years.Post-graduate training includes:
Healing Sexual Trauma — Ariel Giarretto (2021)Transgenerational Trauma: From Hauntings to Wholeness — Dr Peter Levine & Euphrasia Nyaki (2020)Developmental Trauma — Dr Peter Levine, Switzerland (2015)Pricing & Practicalities
Sessions are £80 per hour. Lower income sessions are available - please get in touch.
Sessions are offered via Zoom, or in person in Ibiza. Each session must be paid in advance.
Cancellation policy: 48 hours notice required to reschedule without charge. Less than 48 hours: 50% fee. Less than 24 hours full fee.
Bank details: Payment to Gemma Mallol
Wise Banking, BIC: TRWIBEB1XXX, IBAN: BE88 9674 2769 9941
Wise's address: Avenue Louise 54, Room S52, Brussels, 10, Belgium
or PayPal: gemmamallol@hotmail.com
- Reflections, Les Jardins Majorelle, February 2026
“My body is here now, my body is millions of years old, my body is not my body. My body is a fish, my body is my grandmother, my body is the sea, my body is the rock, my body is a fragrant flower. My body is the history of my ancestors moving, my body is their music, my body is our grief, my body is my child's survival, my body is our joy, my body is an unknown tiny baby, floating, unborn.”
– The Ancestral Body, Gemma Mallol