AILEY JOLIE
I know what it feels like to be a stranger in your own skin.
To keep going, keep functioning, keep showing up, while some part of you isn't really there. To read all the books and try all the practices and still feel like you're watching your own life from somewhere far away.
I came to the practices of both psychotherapy and later somatics because I needed both equally. I spent years confused, overwhelmed, and lost trying to understand the sensations of my body. I didn't understand how I could feel so numb at certain moments and so flooded at others. How I could crave closeness and then feel myself leave the moment anyone got too near. I had experiences early in my life that taught me my body was not safe to inhabit. And I spent a long time believing that if I just understood enough, read enough, tried hard enough, I could think my way back home.
I couldn't. The body doesn't work that way. Coming home isn't an intellectual project. It's a felt one.
I hold two Master's degrees: one in Counselling Psychology, one in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Studies. I completed a certificate in Trauma Recovery through Harvard Medical School. I'm a Chartered Psychologist, a Registered Clinical Counsellor, and a Certified Sex Therapist. I've trained extensively in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and Jungian depth work. I'm currently writing my first book on feminist somatic psychology.
I created INBODY because I kept having the same conversations in my practice. I was sharing things with women that they had never encountered in any of the books they were reading. Women were getting fragments when they deserved the whole picture. I wanted to build something that held the complexity. The science and the feminism and the felt experience, all of it together.
