Briony Montgomery | The Somatherapy Collective
Somatic psychotherapist, speaker, and founder of The Somatherapy Collective and The Reclaim Me Project, Briony Montgomery offers a grounded, body-based approach to trauma healing, nervous system support, and matrilineal repair.
Her work supports people in moving beyond talk-based approaches into somatic therapy, attachment healing, parts work, and rage work, helping them reconnect with their bodies, restore emotional capacity, and return to flow, power, purpose, and pleasure.
About Briony
Briony Montgomery is a somatic therapist and psychotherapist. She is the founder of The Somatherapy Collective, a trauma-informed healing space dedicated to supporting individuals in reconnecting with their bodies and healing deeply held emotional and relational patterns.
And The Reclaim Me Project is a trauma-informed initiative supporting women who have experienced violence and deep relational harm. Grounded in somatic therapy and nervous system healing, it offers pathways for long-term recovery, reconnection to the body, and the reclamation of safety, power, and self.
Her work integrates:
• Somatic therapy (nervous system healing)
• Matrilineal repair
• Matriarchy
• Attachment work
• Parts work
• Rage work
• Grief & Loss
She works with individuals who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck despite previous therapy or personal development - offering a body-based approach that supports real, lasting change.
Briony’s approach is grounded, relational, and deeply attuned, centring the body’s innate capacity to heal when given the right conditions.
Areas of Expertise
Briony is available for interviews, podcasts, speaking, and commentary on:
• Somatic therapy and nervous system healing
• Trauma healing and emotional regulation
• The mother wound and matrilineal repair including matriarchy
• Attachment patterns and relational healing
• Rage work and processing anger in the body
• Women’s emotional health and wellbeing
• Burnout, overwhelm, and chronic stress
• Body-based healing approaches vs talk therapy
• Midlife thresholds including perimenopause, menopause
• Long term recovery from violence
• Women’s health and wellbeing
• Grief
• Spiritualities intersection with modern living
• Perimenopause
Podcast.
The Unfuckwithable Woman - 2025 -present is a podcast exploring somatic healing, nervous system wisdom, the mother wound, authenticity, grief, rage, and embodied liberation. Hosted by Briony Montgomery, each episode invites you to reconnect with your body's innate wisdom and reclaim the parts of yourself that were shaped by trauma, conditioning, and survival. This is a space for healing, truth-telling, and becoming more fully who you are.
The (re)Sourced woman - 2020 - 2021 (13 episodes) brings together inspiring conversations with teachers, healers, practitioners, authors, and thought leaders in women's health, wellbeing, spirituality, embodiment, and personal growth. Hosted by Briony Montgomery, each episode explores the wisdom, tools, and stories that support women to reconnect with themselves, their bodies, their purpose, and their deepest sources of resilience. A space for learning, inspiration, healing, and remembering who you truly are
Speaking & Podcast Topics
• Why your body still feels stuck (even after therapy)
• What is somatic therapy and how does it work?
• Healing inherited patterns through matrilineal repair
• The role of the nervous system in trauma and emotional overwhelm
• Matriarchy
• Decolonisation
• Leadership
• Trauma recovery
• Rage, grief, and emotional expression in the body
• Moving from survival to flow: how to feel safe in your body
• How to heal after experiencing abuse
• Recovery from Domestic Violence
Signature perspective
Briony’s work challenges the idea that healing happens through insight alone.
She speaks to the reality that many people understand their patterns, yet still feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck - because their nervous system has not yet had the opportunity to process what is held in the body.
Her work brings attention back to the body as the primary site of healing, supporting individuals to move out of survival and into a state of flow, connection, and capacity. She speaks from a matriarchal point that focuses on humanity, service, activism and decolonisation.
AS SEEN IN
Media & Press.
Journals of Love & Literature - Published Author: "Planting Seeds in the Compost of My Own Becoming" (TBA)
That’s Life Magazine UK - Featured Storyteller (TBA)
Global Sisters - Contributing Author "Little Green Houses for the Regional Bank in Armidale" (TBA)
Perimenopause Podcast - Guest (TBA)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 14: The Death Mother Archetype: The Hidden Pattern Behind Shame, Freeze & Self Abandonment" (19/05/2026)
That’s Life Magazine Australia - Featured Storyteller : "The Birthday cake Miracle” (11/05/2026)
RadioVoice - Guest: "S6EP231 - Briony Montgomery" (04/05/2026)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 13: The Mother Wound Explained: Why You Keep Repeating Relationship Patterns (And How to Break Them Through Somatic Healing) (04/05/2026)
Solo Traveller - Subject-Matter Expert (SME) : "The Disconnect Within" (24/04/2026)
Allow Yourself Podcast - Guest : "Heal From Within: Briony Montgomery on Inner Healing and Personal Growth" (April 2026)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 12: What is Somatic Therapy? Why Your Nervous System Is Stuck in Survival (And How to Shift It) " (09/04/2026)
Style My Soul - Guest "Podcast Spotlight: Briony Montgomery - Founder of The Somatherapy Collective" (30/03/2026)
Living Reflections Podcast - Guest “From Override to Insight: The Phsoclogy Of Inner Balance | Dr Mel and Briony Montgomery” (26/02/2026)
Pinpoint on Purpose - Contributor : "How to Navigate the Grief that comes with Finding Yourself Again" (21/02/2026)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 11: Integrated Practice - How to Live Your Healing Every Day” (23/01/26)
Ticker TV - MediaGuest: "Body Stress: Somatic Therapy Helps Women" (16/01/2026)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 10: Listen to Your Body, See Your Future Visioning Through Feeling" (09/01/2026)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 9: Embodied Grief - The Alchemy of Feeling" (23/12/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 8: Tending to the Nervous System, Reclaiming Power " (09/12/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 7: What It Really Means to Be Unfuckwithable"(09/12/2025)
Global Sisters - Panelist: "Little Green Houses for the RAB in Armidale" (25/11/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 6: The Nervous System Revolution: Reclaiming Safety in a World on Fire” (15/10/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 5: Love Uncaged: Intimacy Beyond Binaries" (26/09/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 4: The Ancestral Mother Wound - Healing Lineage, Healing the World " 1(2/09/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 3: From Liberation to Loss - My Story & the Birth of The MotherWay" (29/08/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 2: Yearning for The Mother"(22/08/2025)
The Unfuckwithable Woman Podcast - Host: "Episode 1: The Unfuckwithable Woman: Reclaiming the Feminine, Reawakening the Mother, Tending the MotherWound, Dismantling Oppression" (09/08/2025)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode13: Healing Grief & Trauma with Carissa Rodgers" (24/09/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 12: Inclusivity, Ancestors & Privilege with Louise O’Reilly" (02/09/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 11: The Death Mother Archetype" (17/08/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 10: Alignment & Unlocking Potential Within with Kerry Rowett" (24/05/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 9: Finding Joy Through Grief’ (10/05/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 8: The Alchemy pf Listening & Waiting with Chameli Ardagh" (22/03/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 7: Powerful and Transformational Healing with Feminine Embodiment Practise" (11/03/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 6: Ancestral healing Through The MotherLine" (24/02/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 5: Yearning for The Mother: Healing the UnMothered & the Motherless Mother" (04/02/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 4: Belonging and What it is to Be Fully You with Melanie Dewberry" (26/01/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 3: The Motherwound & Why The World is Crying Out for The Mother“ (11/01/2021)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 2: Talk All Things Feng Shui, Energy Healing & Geomancy with Renee Longworth" (15/12/2020)
The (re)Sourced Woman Podcast - Host "Episode 1: What is the (re)Sourced Womxn" (18/12/2020)
Rebelle Society - Published Author: "Embrace Your Death Mother Archetype To Fully Heal" (12/08/2020)
A Modern Women’s Guide to Natural Empowering Birth - Contributing Author "A Modern Woman’s Guide to A Natural Empowering Birth" (2011)
Work with Briony
Briony offers:
• 1:1 somatic therapy sessions
• 20-minute clarity calls
• Courses and programs
• The Daily Root (daily somatic support)
• Leadership & business workshops
• Women’s Circle Facilitation
• The Reclaim Me Project: Domestic and Coercive Control Violence Recovery
• Front-line worker & NGO Training
Contact & Media Enquiries
For media, speaking, podcast interviews, or collaborations:
briony@thesomatherapycollective.com
www.thesomatherapycollective.com
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