The Guest Host Series Christina P. Kantzavelos, LCSW interviews Aimee Takaya
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Through her practice in Hanna Somatics she has overcome debilitating chronic pain/unresolved trauma that used to control her life. Now, she enjoys ease in leadership, entrepreneurship, healthier personal relationships and has better functional mobility than she did as a child!
She helps heart-led leaders become actualized in their Somas so they too can enjoy the magical, expansive life they have always dreamed was possible.
Connect with Aimee at one of her Somatic Bodywork based retreats, Learn about her Transformative 6 Month Somatic Education program or Listen to the Free Your Soma Podcast at
www.freeyoursoma.com
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| 0:39.2 | Welcome to the Trauma Therapist Podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | My name is Guy McPherson. |
| 0:45.9 | I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma. |
| 0:47.5 | A big thank you to our sponsors and our guests who are supporting this show. |
| 0:53.3 | Hey, Amy. |
| 0:54.7 | So happy to have you here. |
| 0:56.4 | Oh, me too. |
| 0:57.3 | You're one of my favorite colleagues slash friends. |
| 1:01.1 | Right, right. |
| 1:02.5 | In the ether, in the ether, someone who resonates on our, on our frequency. |
| 1:09.3 | It's just, it's rare and it's so refreshing when it happens |
| 1:11.6 | and it's wonderful to continue to meet more of us doing doing this work in various ways, |
| 1:18.7 | shapes and forms, which I'm excited to speak about. So tell us a bit about yourself. How did you |
| 1:26.4 | get here? How did you get to the work that you do? |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. So I've been working with bodies and movements since I was 22 years old. I started |
| 1:35.6 | practicing yoga at 19 after a really intense health crisis, you know, which the standard status |
| 1:43.5 | quo, you know, culture industry around health would have called, you know, psych, which the standard status quo, you know, culture, industry around health would |
| 1:46.4 | have called, you know, psychosis and a nervous breakdown. |
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