Why Multiple Sessions? Understanding Deep Embodiment Work
One Session Treats Symptoms. Four Sessions Create Change.
You might be wondering: Why do I need multiple sessions? Can’t I just come once and feel better?*
It’s a fair question, and the answer reveals something important about how true healing works.
The Difference Between Relief and Transformation
One Session Can:
- Provide temporary relief from tension or overwhelm
- Offer a taste of what embodiment feels like
- Create a moment of calm or release
- Introduce you to somatic practices
- Give you insights about your patterns
This is valuable—but it’s not transformation.
Multiple Sessions Create:
- Lasting nervous system regulation
- Integration of fragmented parts
- Breaking of entrenched patterns
- Sustainable shifts in how you feel and function
- True embodiment as a way of living
Why Your Body Needs Time
Your patterns didn’t form overnight—and they won’t dissolve in one session.
The behaviors, emotions, and physical holding patterns you’re experiencing have been built over months, years, or even decades. They exist in your nervous system, your tissues, your cellular memory. They were created as intelligent protective responses to keep you safe.
What Happens Session by Session:
Session 1: Assessment & Safety
- Your nervous system is assessing: “Is this person safe? Is this space safe?”
- We’re establishing trust and beginning to map what’s present
- You’re learning the language of sensation and embodiment
- Initial relief may occur, but deeper patterns remain guarded
Session 2-3: Beginning to Unwind
- Your system starts to trust the process
- Protective layers begin to soften
- Patterns become visible and accessible
- You start to develop capacity to feel without overwhelm
- Old material may surface as your body recognises safety
Session 4+: Integration & Rewiring
- Real transformation begins
- New patterns start to replace old ones
- Your nervous system learns new responses
- Integration moves from session work into daily life
- Sustainable change takes root
The Science of Neuroplasticity
Your brain and nervous system can change—this is called neuroplasticity. But rewiring takes repetition, consistency, and time.
Think of it like this:
- One gym session gives you a temporary endorphin boost
- Four sessions start building strength
- Consistent practice creates lasting fitness
Embodiment works the same way:
- One session gives you relief and awareness
- Four sessions begin rewiring your nervous system
- Ongoing work creates embodied transformation
Each session builds on the last, deepening the work and allowing your system to integrate changes at a pace it can sustain.
Why Patterns Return After One Session
You might leave a single session feeling amazing—spacious, calm, connected. Then within days or weeks, the old feelings return. This isn’t failure. This is how nervous systems work.
What’s Actually Happening:
Your nervous system defaults to familiar patterns, even painful ones, because they’re known. Safety = familiarity to your survival brain.
One session creates a crack in the pattern but doesn’t have time to build the new neural pathways that would make a different response automatic.
Without reinforcement, your system returns to what it knows—the tension, the numbness, the overwhelm, the recurring behaviour.
With multiple sessions, we:
- Catch the pattern as it tries to return
- Gently guide your system toward the new response
- Reinforce the new pathway until it becomes natural
- Build capacity to maintain the change independently
The Four-Session Minimum
Four sessions is the minimum needed to:
✓ Establish safety and trust in your nervous system
✓ Identify and begin working with your core patterns
✓ Start rewiring automatic responses
✓ Build your capacity to feel and regulate
✓ Create change that lasts beyond the session room
✓ Give you tools and practices you can sustain independently
Four sessions is not:
- The end of your healing journey (many clients continue longer)
- An arbitrary number chosen by me
- A guarantee that all your challenges will be resolved
Four sessions IS:
- The foundation for real, lasting change
- Enough time for your nervous system to begin trusting new patterns
- The difference between temporary relief and sustainable transformation
What Happens If You Stop After One Session
You’ll likely experience:
- Initial relief that fades within days or weeks
- Return of the same patterns and symptoms
- Frustration that “it didn’t work”
- Missing the opportunity for the deeper work that was just beginning to surface
One session isn’t wasted—you’ll have learned something valuable and had a genuine experience. But it’s like planting a seed and not watering it. The potential for growth was there, but it didn’t have what it needed to take root.
Investment in Yourself
I understand that committing to multiple sessions is an investment—of time, money, and emotional energy.
Here’s what I want you to know:
This work is not about keeping you dependent on sessions forever. The goal is to help you become your own healer, to embody the practices so deeply that you carry them with you always.
Four sessions is the minimum to:
- Make that investment worthwhile
- Create change that justifies your time and resources
- Give your body what it actually needs to heal
- Ensure you leave with tools and capacity, not just temporary relief
Many clients work with me for 8-12 sessions or longer for deeper transformation. Some continue with monthly maintenance. Others complete their focused work and return when new challenges arise.
But all lasting change begins with at least four sessions.
Your Choice
I can offer you a single session if that’s what you’re seeking. You’ll have a meaningful experience, and you’ll leave with more awareness than you came with.
But if you’re truly ready for transformation—to break the patterns, integrate what’s fragmented, and live differently—I ask you to commit to at least four sessions.
Your body deserves the time it needs to heal.