Academic Background
Ffion holds an honours degree in Health & Society DCU (2015), she is a fully qualified
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner through SOS Internationale (2020).
Ffion Thomas
Work Experience
Ffion has been working in private practice as a Somatic Experiencing practitioner since 2018. With a background in complementary therapies, she worked with services users in Rehabcare facilities in Dublin and with patients with acquired brain injuries in Donnybrook hospital, as well as running a successful private practice in Dublin since 2015. Ffion has taught workshops in trauma and the nervous system for staff and therapists at CUAN cancer support centre, and also for parents, teachers and guardians of neurodivergent children at Lus Na Griene family resource centre. Ffion has done additional training in somatic tools for sexual and sexuality trauma, postpartum care, and restorative practice. She also works part-time as a Lifeskills Support Worker for the School Completion Programme, where she uses her extensive experience with trauma resolution and emotional resilience building with young people that are at risk of leaving school early.
Underpinning Philosophy
Ffion holds inherent positive regard for all of her clients and students. She is firmly of the belief that most adverse experiences or trauma holds an opportunity for immense resilience and thriving with adequate support - post traumatic growth.
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body orientated form of trauma resolution therapy. SE gives us an opportunity to release stress energy from the body through presence and attention on specific sensations, emotions, images, body impulses and movements that are arising in the present moment. SE gives us the opportunity to renegotiate overwhelming experiences in life where our boundaries might have been broken, so that we no longer hold the energy and discomfort of those experiences in our body. These sessions are experiential, therapeutic, creative and educational. Ffion truly believes in our potential to expand beyond our trauma and what has happened to us in life. She holds a strong vision of the most authentic, embodied, and thriving version of those she is honoured to work with. Being orientated to the goodness and resilience in her clients has resulted, time and time again, in empowered, bold and beautiful transformations in her practice. The sessions are creative in nature, and she often uses art, writing, and movement as a means to tap deeper into the wisdom of the body.
