about Robyn Jin

My path has always been rooted in a deep commitment to healing and personal growth, both on an individual and collective level. This dedication, combined with a passion for visual arts and social justice, led me to develop a practice of somatic expression therapy.

I am a Somatic Expression Therapist and Artist, and my approach integrates Somatic Parts Work with artistic creation to support the transformation of stuck or wounded parts into states of balance, strength, love, and freedom. Through this work, we gently reconnect with your core self and inner wisdom, allowing for healing that bridges the mind and body through a felt sense of wholeness and compassion.

I’ve studied trauma in depth through both Somatic (body-based) and Polyvagal (nervous system) lenses. In sessions, I offer a combination of somatic trauma work, guided imagery, mindfulness, and nourishing art-making. Artistic expression becomes a way into the ventral vagal state where we can safely feel our emotions and process them. Our artistic mediums offer a safe container where feeling becomes a pathway to healing.

As your guide, I hold a nonjudgmental, attuned space, and meet you wherever you are. We’ll co-create a safe cocoon for your nervous system to rest, restore, and explore. From this space, you can begin to embrace your wounded parts while nourishing your most vibrant, creative, and confident self.

 FAQs

  • -        Integrative Somatic Parts Work

    -        Inner Child Work

    -        Polyvagal Therapy

    -        Expression Through Art Making

    -        Somatic Movement

    -        Ancestral Lineage Healing

    -        Trauma-Informed Yoga

    -        Guided Meditation

    -        Breathwork

  • -        C-PTSD

    -        Anxiety

    -        Depression

    -        Supporting Family with Addiction

    -        Suicide Grief

    -        Racism/Marginalization

    -        Dementia Grief

    -        Immigrant Family Nuances

    -        Cystic Acne

  • Advanced Diploma in Art Therapy, Certificate of Integrative Somatic Parts Work, Certificate in Intercultural Communication, Doula Training, RYT-200 (trauma informed), Combined Honours BSc in Immunology and International Development

  • One 50-minute virtual session (via Zoom or Cell) : $95

  • One 50-minute session for:

    • $55/session (based on $0-29k/yr incomes)

    • $65/session (based on $30-39k/yr incomes)

    • $75/session (based on $40-49k/yr incomes)

    • (limited spaces available, please inquire)

    • A decolonized space free of judgement

    • Tender coaching toward rewiring your nervous system

    • Somatic expression through art making

    • Guided exploration of all the parts you may be holding

    • Gentle breathwork and grounding techniques

    • Connection to creativity and self-exploration

    • Somatic practices that will help to translate your body’s inner wisdom

    • Freedom to process your traumas through visual and non-verbal means

    • Guided movement and rituals for you to take home

    • ANXIETY

    • DEPRESSION

    • TRAUMA

    • SLEEP

    • CREATIVITY

    • CHRONIC STRESS

    • PROCRASTINATION

    • GRIEF

    • PTSD

    • INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA

    • COMPLEX DREAMS

    • OVERWHELM

Somatic Expression Approach

Emotions

Our sessions start with identifying which emotions are burdening your system.

Sensations

Next, we’ll work together to track how it moves, feels, and speaks in the body.

Expression

Then you’ll express your inner landscape through imagery to unlock your core self.

As your guide, I hold a nonjudgmental, attuned space, and meet you wherever you are. We’ll co-create a safe cocoon for your nervous system to rest, restore, and explore. From this space, you can begin to embrace your wounded parts while nourishing your most vibrant, creative, and confident self.

connect with robyn

  • Little cocoon apartment, I love how you rattle and shake in the wind. You are mine like nothing has ever been before. Someday you'll tear open, and I'll fly out with the wings I have grown inside you. Still shimmering. Still wet. 

    ― Kai Cheng Thom

  • Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your perceptions need you, your feeling needs you. The wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.

    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

  • The body has been designed to renew itself through continuous self-correction. These same principles also apply to the healing of psyche, spirit, and soul.

    ― Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

  • The two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are “Notice that” and “What happens next?” Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.

    ― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  • To experience embodied awareness, take notice of the underlying sensations that actually inform you about how you feel. If you were to be asked how you feel when you are stressed or in pain, a common answer might be, “I feel anxious” or “I feel upset.” It’s important to go further by becoming curious about how you know that you’re feeling anxious or upset. Is there a tightness or burning that is happening right now inside of you that you are labelling “anxiety” or “upset”?

    ― Peter A. Levine