Meet Cate
Cate Porter is the founder of Aurora Holistic Healing and creator of The Aurora Method, a trauma-informed approach to nervous system regulation that works through somatic practices, breathwork, bodywork, and energetics.
But the work didn't start with a training or a qualification. It started with her own body.
After a traumatic first birth, Cate found herself disconnected, overwhelmed, and running on empty. She was functioning but not really present. Not in her body, not in her relationships, not in herself. She knew something had shifted, and no amount of pushing through was going to shift it back.
During her second pregnancy, she found somatic and nervous system based practices. That was the turning point.
For the first time, she understood what it felt like to work with her body instead of around it. To release rather than override. To feel safe inside herself again. It changed how she related to her emotions, her identity, and the people she loved.
What followed was years of deepening that understanding through study, through practice, and through sitting with clients who were carrying their own version of the same thing. Cate saw how nervous system health touches everything: parenting, relationships, self-worth, the ability to feel at ease in your own life.
That is what she brings to every session. Not a technique applied from the outside, but a genuine understanding of what it takes to find your way back to yourself, because she has lived it.
My Purpose:
“To support people in feeling safe in their bodies again, so they can move through life with more ease, clarity, and connection”
Why this work matters to Cate
Cate does this work because she knows what it is like to live in survival mode. She has experienced burnout, emotional overload, and the ongoing weight of carrying unprocessed stress into daily life. She knows how those patterns quietly erode connection, trust, and your sense of ease within yourself.
She also knows that no amount of thinking your way out of it actually works. Because this isn't a mindset problem. It lives in the body.
Many people carry ongoing stress, overwhelm, or emotional tension without realising how much of it is being held in the nervous system.
When the body stays in survival for too long, it shows up as anxiety, exhaustion, irritability, shutdown, or a quiet sense of disconnection from yourself and the people around you. These are not personal failings. They are protective responses that once made sense, and may no longer be serving you.
Somatic and nervous system focused work creates a different kind of pathway. Not one that pushes or overrides, but one that supports the body to release what it has been holding, at a pace that feels safe. From there, something shifts. Regulation returns. Clarity returns. And life begins to feel a little more like yours again.
My Philosophy.
People deserve more than strategies for coping. More than learning to manage what they are feeling or push through what feels heavy. What most people actually need is a pathway back to themselves, and that pathway runs through the body.
The body holds the stories, patterns, and protections we have carried through life. Not as metaphor, but as real, physical holding. When those layers are met with presence rather than pressure, the nervous system begins to find its way back to safety. And from safety, real change becomes possible.
This work is not about fixing what is wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you. It is about creating the conditions for your system to release what it no longer needs, so you can show up more fully in your relationships, your sense of self, and your everyday life.
My Intention when working with you:
Every session is shaped by what you need in that moment. These are the four things I hold as constant, no matter where we begin…
01— TO NURTURE
Safety & Presence
Before anything else, you need to feel safe. I hold a grounded, supportive space so your system can settle and whatever needs to surface can do so at its own pace.
02— TO SUPPORT
Wholeness & Integration
The mind, body, and nervous system are not separate. My intention is to work with all of them together, so that what shifts in a session has the space to land and last.
03— TO HONOUR
Your Body’s Wisdom
Your body already knows what it needs. My role is to help you tune back into that intelligence, creating space for new responses and a deeper sense of awareness within yourself.
04— TO PERSONALISE
Every Experience
No two sessions look the same because no two people are the same. Each experience is shaped by what feels most supportive to you right then and there.
