Welcome

Aurelie Richards (she/her)
Psychosomatic Counsellor, Health and Wellbeing Coach, Somatics Educator

My Practice
My practice blends three core areas—psychosomatic counselling, health & wellbeing coaching, and East Asian medicine—to provide you with personalized, robust, and transformative care.
Whether you’re navigating trauma, seeking psychospiritual balance, or deepening holistic health, my trauma-informed, polyvagal-based approach integrates mindfulness, somatic practices, and traditional healing techniques to support your journey.
Psychosomatics
As a former Zen Buddhist monastic, I’ve been educating and counselling individuals, educators, medical practitioners, therapists, and parents on the joys of incorporating mindfulness and meditative practices into their personal and professional lives since 2011.
During that time, I also started applying Theory U (developed by Otto Scharmer of the Presencing Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to community and organizational transformation.
The counselling work that I do is moreover deeply trauma- and anti-oppression informed, and backed by certifications in Parts Work, Somatics, Attachment Theory, Right Use of Power, the Wheel of Consent, Diversity and Inclusion (DEIB), and Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping).
In the last years, I’ve added certification in the therapeutic tremor to my repertoire, as a fundament of my facilitation and therapeutic approach. I additionally offer the NADA protocol for addiction and trauma recovery.
Health and Wellbeing
I earned my undergraduate degree from New York University in 2010 and have over a decade of professional experience as a dancer and actor (stage, screen, and voice) in California, New York City, and Berlin.
This background makes me particularly attuned to the body—the personal human body, but also the group body, the pain body, the social body, the spirit body. Embodiment has been a fundament of my psychospiritual research. A natural outcome of that is my pursuit of becoming a certified facilitator of the Resilience Toolkit and trauma recovery guide.
My methods are a research-based, polyvagal- and trauma-informed set of somatics exercises and counselling skills designed to bolster embodied attachment and tonify the nervous system—through self- and co-regulation.
East Asian Medicine
I’ve been practising intuitive healing since 2009, when I received private Reiki transmission, through apprenticeship. I went on to receive Shiatsu training from the Ohashi Institute in New York City in 2012.
As a somatics educator and facilitator, I credit long-term intensive trainings in Klein technique, Alexander technique, Kinetic Awareness, Body-Mind Centring, functional anatomy, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, with much of the theoretical and experiential backgrounding of my unique methodology.
Since 2022 I began the process of pursuing a Masters of Medicine (MMed) in East Asian Medicine, focusing on the somatization of psychospiritual trauma in the Qi Jing Ba Mai, as well as endocrinology (hormonal health) and infectology (especially HIV and STI support and treatment).
Pending receipt of my healing licence in Germany, I am taking clients for non–invasive East Asian medical treatment. This includes massage, moxabustion, cupping, herbology, as well as nutrition & lifestyle coaching.
Learn about my offerings below.
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Current Partnerships

The Numinous Network
Mondays
18:00–19:00 CET
Embodied Attachment
Group Somatics Practice
3rd Saturdays
19:00–20:00 CET
Taking Root to Fly
Neuroanatomy & Advanced Somatics

Projekt MILES — LSVD Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
10:00–17:00 CET
Free and anonymous counselling.
For LGBTQIA+ people with migration and refugee backgrounds.
Resource Library

When you sign up for my newsletter, you get access to my mental health Resource Library, which I’ve been compiling for my clients over the years.
It has books, articles, apps, podcasts, media, and helpful websites all in one convenient and easy-to-navigate Wiki.