SomaPoetica
somatic therapy | sexology | sex & relationship counselling
by Taylor Neal
Somatic Therapy & Sexology for Individuals and Couples
SomaPoetica offers body-based therapeutic support for those seeking a deeper relationship with themselves, their bodies, intimacy, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.
Grounded in somatics, nervous system awareness, and sexology, sessions support clients navigating intimacy and relationship concerns, body image, shame, anxiety, emotional disconnection, desire, pleasure, boundaries, sexuality, and embodied healing.
Work with Taylor Neal — somatic sexologist, writer, and founder of SomaPoetica.
Ready to learn the language of your body?
At SomaPoetica, therapy is approached through both the mind and the body.
Many of our experiences live beyond language alone: showing up through tension, shutdown, overwhelm, numbness, relational patterns, difficulty accessing pleasure, or feeling disconnected from ourselves and others.
Somatic therapy and somatic sexology offer a collaborative, body-based approach to exploring these experiences with greater awareness, care, and curiosity.Sessions are available for individuals and couples, whether you are completely new to somatic work or already familiar with embodied practices.
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
What Is Somatic Sexology?
Somatic sexology is a body-based therapeutic approach that explores the relationship between the nervous system, emotions, sexuality, intimacy, and lived experience.
Rather than focusing solely on thoughts or behaviours, this work recognises that experiences of connection, desire, stress, shame, pleasure, and safety are also held physically within the body. Through guided awareness of sensation, emotion, and nervous system responses, sessions support greater embodiment, relational awareness, emotional regulation, and connection to self and others.
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.
tune into the language of your body
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.
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.
Sessions are available online and designed to meet you where you are — with care, collaboration, and respect for your individual pace and experience.
make an inquiry
If you're curious about a session or have any questions, reach out! I'd love to hear from you.
taylornealcontact@gmail.com