somapoetica
somatic therapy | sexology | sex & relationship counselling
by Taylor Neal
The medium is the message; how we experience our bodies becomes how we experience the world.
SomaPoetica offers body-based therapeutic support including Somatic therapy and Sexology for individuals and couples exploring sexuality, intimacy, relationships, emotional wellbeing, and embodiment.
SomaPoetica is a space to slow down, get curious about what your body is telling you, and explore the patterns that shape how you move through the world.
Start where your curiosity lies:
Whether you're looking for one-on-one support or something to explore in your own time, there are a few ways to begin.
Somatic Therapy
For exploring emotional patterns, self-worth, anxiety, relationships, body image, and feeling more connected to yourself.
Somatic Sexology
For exploring desire, pleasure, sexual confidence, arousal, boundaries, intimacy, and your relationship with your body and sexuality.
SomaPoetica Resources
Self-guided guides, workbooks, and practices for exploring confidence, relationships, sexuality, and embodiment at your own pace.
What is somatic work?
Our bodies are constantly communicating with us through sensation, emotion, tension, movement, desire, pleasure, discomfort, and the ways we respond to the people and environments around us.
Somatic work offers a way to become more curious about those experiences rather than simply trying to think your way through them.
In our work together, we might explore sexuality, relationships, emotional patterns, body image, boundaries, confidence, pleasure, or the places where you feel stuck between knowing something intellectually and being able to experience it differently.
There's no single way to do somatic work. We start with what's happening for you, and go from there.
Create space for the process.
Somatic work isn't always about one big breakthrough in the room.
Sometimes the most useful part of a session happens afterwards — when you notice something in your everyday life, experiment with something different, and bring what you discover back into the next session.
That's why I offer 3- and 5-session Somatic Sexology Bundles alongside individual sessions.
3 Sessions: Notice → Explore → Integrate
A focused space to understand what's happening, experiment with new ways of relating to your body and sexuality, and begin integrating what you discover.
5 Sessions: Notice → Explore → Deepen → Integrate → Carry Forward
More space to stay with the work, notice emerging patterns, experiment, and explore what changes when new ways of relating to yourself become part of everyday life.
Not sure what kind of support you're looking for? Book a free alignment call and we can figure it out together.
Explore in your own time.
Not everyone is looking for one-on-one support, and sometimes you want somewhere to begin before you're ready for that.
SomaPoetica Resources is a growing collection of self-guided workbooks, guides, and practices for exploring confidence, relationships, sexuality, pleasure, and embodiment.
Created from my work as a somatic sexologist, therapist, educator, and writer, these resources are designed to give you something practical to explore in your own time — and return to whenever you need it.
Meet Taylor
Taylor Neal is a somatic sexologist, writer, and founder of SomaPoetica.
With a background across harm reduction, social support work, disability services, sexual assault response, movement, and sex education, Taylor’s work is grounded in creating an accessible and affirming therapeutic space for people navigating intimacy, identity, embodiment, and relational healing.
SomaPoetica was created in response to the limitations of purely talk-based healing modalities — offering a practice that centres the body as an important source of information, awareness, and self-understanding.
Clinical & Community Experience
Taylor’s work is informed by experience across:
- Harm reduction
- Sexual violence response
- Sex worker support & advocacy
- Frontline social support
- Disability services
- Queer & trans community support
- Somatic therapy & sexology certification
- Sex education
- Trauma-aware therapeutic practice
- Trauma-informed yoga teacher training
This interdisciplinary background informs a relational, body-based approach grounded in nervous system awareness, consent, inclusivity, and lived experience.
Areas of Support Include:
- Intimacy & relationship concerns
- Nervous system regulation & emotional overwhelm
- Body image & self-worth
- Performance anxiety & sexual confidence
- Desire, pleasure & desire discrepancy
- Shame & relational patterns
- Sexual pain & disconnection from sensation
- Boundaries, consent & communication
- Queer & trans experiences
- Non-monogamy
- Disability & embodied access needs
- Sex work
- Identity-affirming support
- Sexual trauma
Make an enquiry:
If you're curious about a session or have any questions, reach out! I'd love to hear from you.
taylornealcontact@gmail.com
Ready to learn the language of your body? Start here:
A free alignment call offers space to ask questions, discuss what support you’re seeking, and explore whether somatic therapy or somatic sexology feels aligned for you.
I’ve worked across the board in the sexual wellness space, and pleasure is always the path to healing.
From frontline sexual violence response, to harm reduction and crisis response in Vancouver’s DTES, sex worker support, sex education, writing sex educational content, developing and teaching a 9-week disability sex ed program, hosting a sexual health-focused podcast and facilitating many somatic sexology workshops, and now maintaining a one-on-one somatic sexology practice, I’ve existed in the sexual health space from all angles.
From all of my roles and training, I’ve seen first-hand how politics, systemic oppression, colonialism, and disconnection from our bodies, can impact our overall well-being, and keep us complacent, in a world that benefits from our exhaustion and numbness.
We need eroticism more than ever.