about Robyn Jin

Welcome, I’m Robyn.

My work is rooted in a deep care for healing, both personal and collective. Over time, my love for the arts, social justice, and body-based healing naturally came together in the work I offer today as a Somatic Expression Therapist and artist.

In our sessions, we slow down and listen to the wisdom of the body. I weave together somatic parts work, nervous system awareness, guided imagery, and art-making to support the parts of you that may feel stuck, overwhelmed, or tender. Creative expression can offer a quiet doorway into emotions that are sometimes difficult to reach through words alone.

My approach is gentle and collaborative. I meet you where you are, and together we create a space where your nervous system can soften, rest, and explore. From that place of safety, we can begin to reconnect with your inner wisdom and the parts of you that are creative, resilient, and whole.

Some of the practices that may be part of our work together include:

• Somatic Parts Work

• Inner Child Work

• Polyvagal-informed nervous system support

• Expressive art-making

• Somatic movement

• Trauma-informed yoga

• Guided meditation and breathwork

• Ancestral lineage exploration

My background includes:

BSc in Immunology, Advanced Diploma in Art Therapy, Certificate in Integrative Somatic Parts Work, Certificate in Intercultural Communication, Doula Training, RYT-200 (trauma-informed)

 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.

Artist and Somatic Expression Therapist Robyn Jin
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  • 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