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Psychosomatic Session Structure and Guidelines

This page outlines the structure and expectations of psychosomatic work with Tanya Master, including session format, pacing, and client responsibilities.

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Tanya Master is a psychosomatic consultant working internationally online, based between Berlin, Germany and Vancouver, Canada. She works with private clients and practitioners online internatioanlly.

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Her work focuses on people who can already see their patterns clearly, but find that insight alone does not shift what is happening in their body, relationships, or decisions.

 

This is structured, trauma-informed work that addresses how patterns are held and maintained over time.

 

 

What This Work Is

 

This work focuses on how psychological and relational patterns are carried in the body and expressed in real time.

 

This work tracks:

 

  • how the nervous system organises under pressure

  • how protective strategies show up in behaviour, emotion, and physiology

  • how patterns repeat, even when they are understood

 

Rather than working only at the level of thought or narrative, this approach works directly with:

 

  • sensation

  • impulse

  • relational response

 

The aim is not more awareness. It is change at the level the pattern is held. This includes psychosomatic symptoms such as chronic tension, anxiety in the body, fatigue, pain, and stress-related physical patterns.

 

 

What This Work Is Not

 

This is not:

 

  • open-ended talk therapy

  • mindset or performance coaching

  • symptom management or behavioural optimisation

  • analysis without change

 

The work is structured and directed. It focuses on what is happening, not only what is being said about it.

 

 

Who This Work Is For

 

This work is designed for people who are functioning at a high level but carrying ongoing strain.

 

This often includes:

 

  • high-responsibility professionals

  • founders, clinicians, and creatives

  • individuals experiencing chronic stress, burnout, or dissociation

  • people with persistent physical symptoms that do not resolve through medical or cognitive approaches

 

It is also for practitioners who:

 

  • understand modalities such as IFS or somatic work

  • but struggle to apply them in real time with clients

 

 

Common Themes in This Work

 

Clients often come with patterns such as:

 

  • chronic tension, fatigue, or pain

  • anxiety held in the body rather than just the mind

  • difficulty making clear decisions under pressure

  • over-responsibility in relationships

  • cycles of shutdown, urgency, or internal conflict

 

These are not treated as isolated symptoms, but as part of a system that has learned to organise itself in a particular way.

 

 

Approach and Method

 

This work integrates:

 

  • somatic tracking and nervous system awareness

  • IFS-informed parts work

  • relational and attachment-based understanding

  • depth and pattern-based analysis

 

These are not used as techniques to apply, but as ways of tracking what is happening as it emerges.

 

 

The Psychosomatic Restoration Method™ (PSR)

 

The Psychosomatic Restoration Method™ is a structured approach developed to work with psychosomatic symptoms, chronic patterns, and high-functioning adaptation. PSR is not a technique or protocol. It is a structured way of working with patterns as they emerge in real time.

 

It focuses on:

 

  • identifying the pattern beneath the symptom

  • understanding what maintains it

  • working at the level where it is actually held

 

PSR is based on the understanding that symptoms are not random. They are part of a system that has adapted over time, often intelligently and protectively.

 

The work is not to remove symptoms directly, but to shift the conditions that require them.

 

 

How the Work Is Structured

 

Work is offered in two formats:

 

 

Each format has:

 

  • clear boundaries

  • defined pacing

  • and an explicit frame

 

The structure is defined in advance. Clients know the format, duration, and scope before entering the work.

Clients do not need to manage the process, but they do need to actively engage with it.

 

 

For Practitioners

 

In consultation work, the focus is not on learning more models, but on developing the ability to stay in contact with what is happening in session.

 

This includes:

 

  • tracking patterns as they emerge

  • recognising where contact drops

  • working without defaulting to fixing, explaining, or managing

 

The aim is for the work to become usable in practice, not just understood conceptually.

 

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Where to Find This Work
 

Tanya Master works internationally and maintains an active presence across platforms:

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Key Distinction

 

This work sits between disciplines. It is not psychotherapy, and it is not coaching in the conventional sense.

It is structured psychosomatic work that focuses on:

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  • contact

  • pattern recognition

  • and real-time change

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If you want to explore one specific pattern or symptom in a focused way, you can begin with a 90-minute Deep Dive session.

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