Michelle Dixon, PhD | Somatic Therapist | Host of the Shattering Place Podcast
A Return to Self:
A Somatic, Psychic, and Creative Repatterning
The Threshold of Becoming
A powerful 1-1 partnership to bridge clinical somatic therapy & healing techniques with your multi-dimensional soul mission.
For those who sense they are standing at the edge of a life they can no longer return to, this three-month container is a guided passage through identity transition.
Using evolutionary astrology alongside deep psychological and somatic inquiry, we will map the deeper story your soul is unfolding, gently unravel the roles and patterns that no longer belong to you, and support the emergence of a more sovereign, aligned self.
Across 10 spacious 90-minute sessions, plus up to 6 hours of messaging in between, this work offers a rare kind of accompaniment: clear insight into your soul’s evolutionary timing, grounded support for the nervous system and emotional body, and precise language for the life that is trying to take shape through you. This container is for those ready to move through a threshold with honesty, depth, and care—so the next chapter of your life can emerge from truth rather than survival.
In order to honor my commitment to accessible care in my community practice while providing the deep, one-on-one devotion this recalibration requires, I am limiting this 90-day partnership to only three individuals per 3 month cycle.
(*Not 3 individuals per month as I have accidentally said on my podcast!)
10 strategic 1.5 hour immersions with Michelle over 3 Months to rebuild your foundations.
The end of survival: forging a vessel (your body and psyche) that can hold your true power.
You don't have to choose between esoteric maps and metaphors, intuitive guidance, and active, somatic, evidenced-based therapeutic processes.
We include it ALL.
1 recorded Zoom deep dive, a 1.5 hour evolutionary astrological insight & guidance
Finding your soul's compass
Decoding your karmic blueprint
From "Fate" to "Choice"
Challenges & Strengths
How you do "change" and "healing"
Use your astrological map to support your healing & growth.
+9 therapeutic sessions (3 per month) & What's App or Voxer support for 3 months
Somatic & Trauma-Informed Care
Internal Parts Work (like IFS)
Bilateral Integration (like EMDR)
Shamanic processes & energy healing
Safe & Grounded Space
The Personalized Treatment Plan
We address your challenges on three levels: the somatic (body), the psychological (mind), and the evolutionary (soul)
= 10 sessions total = blending your soul design with active processes
From soul map to lived reality
Clinical depth, spiritual breadth
Collapsing the timeline
PDFs of your chart and supporting printed material
Notes after EACH session outlining our work, the processes, and optional homework / recommended resources
Options for an 'at home' plan between sessions
Become the conscious author of your own unfolding story.
From Soul Blueprint to Wounding
From Healing to Activation
What You Receive:
A Complete 10-Session Arc of Transformation over 3 months. This is a structured journey from understanding your cosmic design to healing the physical blocks and finally activating your next level of existence.
SESSION 1: 1.5-Hour Evolutionary Astrology & Soul Purpose Session: A deep-dive exploration to identify your Soul’s Compass. We will decode your unique cosmic blueprint, helping you understand your purpose and the specific evolutionary path your soul is calling you toward. Includes your birth chart, transit, and possibly your solar return and progressions.
SESSIONS 2-6: 1.5-Hour Somatic Processing: In these therapeutic sessions, we take the insights from your blueprint and go deep into the body. Using a range of tools (see below for details), we get to the root of the wounding that has held you back, creating space for true clearing. We will often refer back to your birth chart. The aim is to be with/allow/release and integrate.
SESSION 7-10: 1.5-Hour Future-Self Activation Sessions: Our final powerhouse sessions are forward-thinking. We focus on activating your latent potential and integrating your new somatic baseline, allowing you to step fully into the frequency of your highest future self.
Personalized Cosmic Roadmap PDF: You will receive a digital copy of your astrological chart along with a curated summary of your most vital soul points for continued reflection and guidance.
Private Messaging What's App or Voxer Support: Access to Michelle all work days. Total of 30 minutes per week of voice messaging (from her to you -in response to your questions!) over the 3 months, and texts during her working hours.
My journey has naturally led me to this powerful integrative offering
This isn't a traditional therapy offering and goes beyond what I am able to offer in my local practice; it is a high-impact, 10-act journey designed for profound recalibration. While my regular sessions offer evidence-based support, the Soul Map 90 Day Recalibration includes non-conventional multi-dimensional offerings, bridging the cosmic and the clinical to move you out of 'management' and into 'activation' in a condensed, powerhouse container.
About Michelle
For twenty-five years, through my own personal struggles, parenting, breakdowns and breakthroughs, and a 15 career in the depths of somatic therapy, I have been tracing a single, haunting question: How do we navigate the moments when our world shatters, and not just survive, but gain soul-level clarity and peace?
My novel, IKONA, and my podcast, The Shattering Place, explore the frontier where suffering becomes a birth. I tell the story of the evolution of the human—the shift from the rigid ego into the multidimensional river.
Life is multidimensional. So is healing. So is growth.
To celebrate the launch of IKONA, I am opening 3 exclusive spots every three months for this 90 day container.
This is where the visionary world of the novel meets the heart-centred and evidenced based work of somatic therapy and the mythopoetic journey of evolutionary astrology.
Using the same tools of evolutionary astrology and somatic therapeutic approaches that breathe life into my own internal map - tools that have supported me through my own breakdowns and breakthroughs - we will map YOUR unique soul intent, understand the echoes of ancestral and possible 'past life' trauma, and prime your self for its next evolution.
You are the author of your unfolding story!
about M.D. Dixon
M. D. Dixon, Ph.D.
somatic therapist,
author, astrologer & podcast host
About Michelle
As the author of IKONA and host of The Shattering Place, my work focuses on the evolution of the self — how we transform our nervous systems and soul blueprints to hold more of our true, multidimensional nature. I work with you to move the energy of your soul's design into your lived, embodied reality. Whether through fiction or our therapeutic, intuitive work together, my mission is to help you navigate your own "shattering" and emerge with a clearer, more powerful design.
Verified google review
Starting my healing journey was one of the scariest decisions I have ever made. Trying to choose a therapist felt overwhelming - until I found Michelle. After our initial phone call, I immediately felt a sense of safety and knew she was someone I could trust to support me in the way I truly needed.
What Michelle has helped me achieve goes far beyond what I thought was possible. I spent most of my life in survival mode - my nervous system had been wired that way for decades. I didn’t fully understand how deeply that state had shaped my life until we began working together.
Through each session, Michelle worked with such gentleness, attunement and deep understanding. She created a space where I felt consistently safe, seen and supported - never rushed, never judged. Her ability to guide me through somatic work and help me regulate my nervous system allowed shifts to happen that I didn’t even know were possible. With her steady presence and expertise, I began developing compassion for myself in a way I never had before and slowly built an internal sense of love, safety, trust and peace.
She guided me to a place within myself that I had only ever dreamed of reaching. There are many beautiful things in life, but nothing compares to what it means to finally feel safe in your own body. Thanks to Michelle and the work we did together, I now live from that place.
If you are considering working with her, know that you will be met with deep care, integrity and real skill. I am incredibly grateful for the work we did together and for the life I’m now able to live because of it.
“Michelle recently read my astrology chart – I wasn’t sure what I was expecting or why I was compelled to get my chart read but I am so glad I did! The reading delved deep into the meaning behind the chart and explored my soul purpose and recurring ancestral patterns. The information was uncannily accurate and has been useful for my path of growth. The process has helped me to understand and feel more at ease with my life journey. Michelle has such a depth of knowledge and a beautiful inituitive approach. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity.”
Phillippa Robers
Astrology client
Verified google review
I’ve worked with a few therapists over the years, but Michelle offers a depth and beauty in her approach that truly stands apart. From our very first session, I felt her nurturing presence, calm, intuitive and deeply supportive. She creates a space that feels both safe and sacred, allowing for real healing and powerful breakthroughs to unfold.
What makes Michelle so unique is not just how she holds space during the session, but how she continues to support and guide you beyond it. Her post-session notes are incredibly thorough and thoughtful, you can tell she listens with her whole heart and truly cares. Every detail she shares feels intentional and aligned, and her reflections have helped me integrate our work on a deeper level. In just a few months, I’ve experienced profound shifts stepping into a version of myself that feels lighter, clearer and more magnetic. Michelle’s work is more than therapy, it’s transformational. I’m endlessly grateful to have found her. She’s truly such a blessing!
Some Qualifications
Therapies
Diploma Counselling & Psychotherapy (IKON Institute)
Certificate: Dr Laurel Parnell’s Master Class in Attachment-Focused EMDR
Certificate: Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More (Alexia Rothman)
Certificate: Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Full Certification (PESI)
Diplomas in Life Coaching, Hypnotherapy, and Neurolinguistic programming (The Mind Academy)
Bodywork Training
Certificate: Myofascial Release Therapy (with Patricia Farmsworth at the Craniosacral Therapy Academy of Australia)
Training in Shamanic Body De-armouring for Trauma Release (with Andrew Barnes)
Biodynamic Cranial Approach full qualification (with Giorgia Milne) (+ Mentorship over 7 years)
Mind Body
Certificate in Mindfulness Facilitation (Rita Riccola, Mindfulness Australia)
Energy Medicine Shamanic Training (Rezinate, Australia)
Astrology with Jan Scott, Sydney, Australia, from 2002, followed by deep personal study over 20 years.
Community Training
Certificate in Youth Counselling (TAFE)
Roses in the Ocean Suicide Prevention Training (Northern Beaches, Sydney)
Mental Health First Aid Training (Northern Beaches, Sydney)
Other Qualifications
Ph.D. in Economics (U. Sydney, research involved interviewing over 60 survivors of genocide), 2002
Bachelor's Summa Cum Laude, International Relations, Elliot School of international affairs, 1996
Clinical Experience
COMMON THEMES
I support clients who are navigating challenges such as:
• A pervasive sense that “something isn’t right” even if life looks okay on the surface
• Developmental trauma, including experiences within narcissistic or neglectful family systems
• Parenting challenges, especially when one’s own childhood felt lacking in attunement or safety
• The impact of violence, bullying, displacement, or intergenerational trauma, including collective traumas like war or genocide
• Spiritual crisis, spiritual awakening, or longings for deeper connection and meaning
• Anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm, including high sensitivity and nervous system dysregulation
• Grief and loss, especially when it feels unresolved or layered over time
• Relationship breakdowns, attachment wounds, and relational trauma
• CPTSD, depression, and identity disorientation
• Chronic or unexplained physical symptoms that don’t respond to conventional treatment but carry emotional or energetic roots
• Somatic pain and diagnoses with no clear medical cause, particularly when linked to trauma or spiritual emergence
• Body-based distress or energy dysregulation, including fatigue, tension, and unprocessed overwhelm
I welcome all of you—tenderness, uncertainty, resilience, brilliance.
Ready to take the next step?
I take on 3 new clients per 3 month cycle. Apply to secure your spot!