Richelle Muscroft

I am a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist specializing in supporting the physical and physiological impacts of chronic pain, stress, and trauma. Through SE™ and yoga-informed practices, I support clients in gently reconnecting with their bodies, helping the nervous system shift out of survival mode and creating pathways toward meaningful change, regulation, and compassionate presence.

I have eight years of experience working with individuals impacted by trauma, persistent pain, anxiety, stress, and grief. My background includes private practice, non-profit and community programs, social services, work with first responders, and four years in an integrative health clinic providing one-to-one support. I have coordinated a multidisciplinary pain program in Canada and teach the chronic pain module for the Vancouver School of Healing Arts. I am also trained in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, a neuroscience-based approach to neuroplastic pain.

I now work in private practice in Tāhuna/Queenstown, offering compassionate, individualized support to help clients experience greater connection, agency and possibility.

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Let’s move gently on this path, together.

Specialties & Support Areas Include:

-Chronic & neuroplastic pain

-Anxiety, depression, and nervous system sensitization

-Trauma, PTSD, grief, and medical procedure-related trauma

-Sleep disturbances and breath-holding patterns

-Work-related stress and emotional overwhelm

Core Therapeutic Benefits:

-Repair and regulation of the autonomic nervous system

-Personalized tools for movement, mindfulness, and self-support

-Somatic completion of stress cycles to feeling more settled and present in your body

-Guidance in shifting pain patterns

-Increase ability to work through discomfort, overwhelm, and difficult situations and sensations

-Sustainable shifts toward ease, trust, and possibility