Online Somatic & Arts Therapy
Helping you find joy in life again
For deeply caring, highly sensitive women tired of holding everything together for everyone else…
Welcome, I’m Joanne Deaker. I help women work through their patterns & challenges so they can live happier, more authentic lives.
Does this sound familiar?
Life feels like a pressure cooker of doing. You care deeply for everyone and you want to help them all. In fact - everyone seems to keep asking you to do things for them and it’s difficult to say no… so you keep on helping. But you’re exhausted… and quietly resentful… cause there just never seems to be enough time for you… and in it all you wonder ‘who am I now?’
This isn’t a flaw.
…It’s a pattern where your nervous system learned that being “kind” or “good” was the safest way to belong…
Life doesn’t have to stay that way…
I’m Joanne Deaker and I can help…
I support women who are self-aware, capable, and used to holding things together for others—but underneath feel overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected from themselves.
I use a unique combination of somatic and arts therapy processes to help you work with the patterns beneath the surface—so you can feel more steady, clearer, freer and more like yourself again.
I specialise in ‘Good Girl Syndrome’—a pattern many women learned early in life, where being helpful, agreeable, and “easy” became the way to feel safe, accepted, or loved.
My clients and students walk away with a deeper understanding of who they are, an ability to feel safe within themselves and the tools to more readily handle life's many challenges, and best of all, they feel joy in this life again.
Learn to begin reconnecting with yourself
My free ebook introduces simple somatic and reflective practices to help you begin building inner safety - so you can start relating to yourself differently, even in everyday moments..
It’s a gentle place to begin.
How I can help you…
I believe many of the struggles we experience in life are rooted in patterns we learned early on — patterns where we felt we had to suppress emotions, stay “good,” or hold everything together in order to feel safe, accepted, or loved.
Over time, these patterns can leave us disconnected from ourselves.
Then when major stress, change, conflict, or loss happens, the emotions we’ve been carrying beneath the surface can begin to overwhelm us. We might find ourselves anxious, emotionally exhausted, reactive, shut down, or wondering why we can’t seem to cope the way we used to.
Talking can absolutely help.
But often, insight alone isn’t enough.
Somatic and arts therapy work differently because they gently move beyond the thinking mind and help you reconnect with what your body has been holding.
Through these processes, you’ll learn how to create safety within yourself, reconnect with your inner knowing, and allow long-held emotions to slowly surface and move—so you can begin responding to life in a way that feels steadier, freer, and more true to who you are.
Ways to work with me…
1:1 therapy*
For deeper, ongoing support.
Introductory Consultation
A gentle first session to explore what’s coming up and whether working together feels right for you.
Ongoing Sessions
to help you:
navigate overwhelm, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion
understand and shift long-standing patterns
feel more at ease in your work and daily life
respond to yourself with more self-trust
[ Book an Intro Consultation → ]
*Note that due to insurance criteria this service is not available to anyone residing in the United States.
Inner compass
A reflective, self-paced alternative to live sessions. Complete a journal-style questionnaire about your current challenges, resources, and intentions, and receive a personalised video with:
Insights from your responses
Patterns and themes I notice
Suggested next steps to support your journey
Ideal if you prefer reflection first, want something you can revisit, or want clarity before deeper work.
This is not a medical or psychological diagnosis.
Group work -‘Free to be me’
A guided group experience for women ready to explore their patterns in a supportive space.
Connection. Regulation. Expansion.
Join the priority waitlist to be first to hear when doors open.
Which path fits you best?
Prefer live, real-time guidance? → Intro Consult
Want ongoing deep support? → 1:1 Therapy
Prefer reflection first? → Inner Compass
Want group support for Good Girl patterns? → Free to Be Me
Want a short, informative workshop? → Unmasking the Good Girl
There’s no “wrong” choice — only the path that feels most supportive for you right now.
[Book Your Intro Consult] | [Explore Inner Compass] | [Explore Free to Be Me] | [Learn More About the Workshop]