About Sophie Boord

Sophie Boord is a gestalt psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing (trauma) practitioner. Sophie has practiced therapy for over 10 years and has worked in the community and health sectors for over 25 years.

Sophie commenced working in the health sector in the mid 90’s at Vivaids and the Kirketon Road Centre, undertaking informal health promotion with injecting drug users and street based sex workers. She moved into arts development for people with disabilities and a range of other arts and therapeutic endeavours before moving into practice as a psychotherapist.

Sophie works with a broad range of clients and presentations, she is a gentle respectful and highly attuned therapist who brings a certain lightness, sensitivity and creativity to her practice.

Sophie’s work is fundamentally holistic, relational and body focused, she has a special interest in trauma and her work engages people with acute, chronic and complex trauma, including developmental and relational trauma. Sophie incorporates somatic touch work into her practice and is passionate about the the value of this work for survivors of trauma.

In addition to her individual work with clients Sophie runs therapy groups and has developed and facilitated therapeutic arts and video projects, including film projects, Celebrating Strength & Resilience, made with women who have experienced family violence and Gratitude made with Phillip Maisel, OAM survivor of the Jewish holocaust.

Sophie is an approved Advanced level Assistant teacher with the cutting edge trauma training program, Somatic Experiencing®, and has been assisting since 2019. Sophie presented work at the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia Conference: Working with Trauma, in February 2019 and the International Domestic Violence and Health Conference in November 2018. In 2017 Sophie ran process groups for practitioners attending the Gestalt Australia New Zealand Conference.

Sophie has completed 3 years training in Somatic Experiencing® pioneered by Dr. Peter Levine. Sophie has completed 1 year of training in Somatic touch practice as well as 4 years training in psychotherapy at Gestalt Therapy Australia. Sophie holds a Bachelor of Communications with Honours in Fine Arts.

PACFA Reg. Clinical 24384