Psychosomatic Fascia Therapy

– A body-based approach to care and change in FULL PRESENCE

This practice works at the intersection of manual therapy, movement and dialogue, developed within the Danis Bois Method (Psychopédagogie perceptive). Sessions combine manual treatment (touch), guided movement and reflection to support you through stress, transition and change — not just by relaxing you, but by opening access to parts of your experience that are often hard to reach through talk alone.

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  • Each session is adapted to your needs and draws on three complementary elements:

    • Manual fascia therapy — slow, precise, attentive touch working with the fasciae, the connective tissue running through the whole body

    • Guided sensory movement — slow, guided movement done with attention to internal sensation, distinct from exercise or stretching

    • Dialogue and reflection — putting words to what emerges during the session

    A 75-minute session usually includes around 35 minutes of hands-on fascia work, complemented by movement, awareness practices and conversation.

    Rather than analysing your experience from the outside, we work with what emerges through your own perception — what you actually feel, moment to moment. This process can bring patterns, resources and possibilities into view that aren't always accessible in everyday life.

    Sessions available in Finnish, Swedish, English and French.

  • Psychosomatic fascia therapy can be helpful when you're experiencing:

    • PLEASE SWITCH ME OFF

      stress, mental overload or chronic tension

    • PLEASE UNSTUCK ME

      fatigue, exhaustion, or difficulty slowing down — or getting started

    • WHAT IS THIS BODY FOR, THIS PERSON, I JUST DISCONNECT

      feeling disconnected from yourself or your body, others, what I do

    • A HARBOUR

      difficulty with emotional regulation

      personal or professional transition

      a need for more grounding, presence or clarity

    • I WANNA THRIVE AND DO MY THING, I AM WIRED WRONG

      creative blocks, or a wish to reconnect with inspiration, pleasure, desires

  • This work is rooted in Perceptual Pedagogy (Psychopédagogie perceptive), developed by French fasciatherapist and researcher Danis Bois, which understands perception as a capacity that can be developed throughout life.

    Through direct, embodied experience, this work can support you in:

    • recognising habitual patterns and responses

    • listening more clearly to your own needs

    • developing presence and self-confidence

    • expanding your capacity to adapt to change

    • strengthening the relationship between sensation, emotion, thought and action

    • building more attuned relationships with others

    In this approach, the body isn't an object to be fixed or controlled — it's a partner in a process of learning and discovery.

Two women sitting on chairs facing each other, one gently holding the other's shoulder as they interact in a simple indoor setting with a plain background.
Two women sitting on chairs facing each other, one gently holding the other's shoulder as they interact in a simple indoor setting with a plain background.

Practical info & booking

Location
Hesperia Therapy Practices
Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu 3 B, Etu-Töölö, Helsinki

Session & price
75 min · 95 € (incl. 25.5% VAT)

Contact
Questions before booking? Call, WhatsApp or email me.
+358 45 112 1590
ingrid.catherine.andre@gmail.com

I offer a professional, confidential space guided by principles of care rather than performance or self-optimisation — feminist-informed, and welcoming to people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, bodies and life experiences.

A few PWYC (Pay What You Can) spots are available each month if finances are a barrier —Get in touch.

  • "I can fully recommend Ingrid for anyone looking to deepen their connection with themselves."

    — Marsh, Therapist at Clarity Therapy Helsinki

  • "Warmly recommend individual sessions! Ingrid is lovely."

    — Liene, MBA candidate Aalto, Law

  • "It is such a surprising experience...like bonding with myself ."

    —Jenine, Doctor in Helsinki

  • "You are a contemporary witch."

    — A dear friend of mine after receiving a treatment

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Change doesn't always look dramatic from the outside. But it happens — quietly, and it stays.

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Change doesn't always look dramatic from the outside. But it happens — quietly, and it stays. 〰️

Sometimes we need to stay with the trouble and then something shifts

Encountering a unique movement within the living body is hard to put into words until you've experienced it. People who experience it often describe a real shift — in how they inhabit themselves, relate to others, or move through what comes next.

"I have so much more space in myself now."
"Things look different now."
"I feel connected."
"It's easier to move on now."
"I wonder why nobody told me before that we have this amazing movement in us."
"I'm not sure yet what to do with this, but it feels like I made friends with my body."
"Now I can focus."
"Things are exciting again."
"I have a ground to return to."

A sort of current, animal, joy, presence, fluid thriving texture that connects us bodily.

A room with a massage table covered in a dark blue sheet, surrounded by books, a chair with a vase and dried plant, a sofa, and window with curtains.
A woman providing chest compressions in a CPR training scenario on a woman lying on a mat.
A woman providing chest compressions in a CPR training scenario on a woman lying on a mat.