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Regulate · Reconnect · ReCentre

Physiotherapy that sees the whole of you.

Your body, your story, and the nervous system that connects them.

With Emily Jones, physiotherapist since 2007

Book your first sessionTake the self-check3 minutes

For pain, tension and exhaustion that hasn’t shifted, with or without a diagnosis.

No referral neededMedicare rebates with a GP planNDIS (self- and plan-managed)Health fund rebates may applyFees & funding →

Does this sound like you?

Your body still doesn’t feel like yours.

Often, a sore back, stiff neck or headaches that won’t quit are the tip of the iceberg: a nervous system that’s been carrying too much, for too long.

You’re not imagining it, and you don’t have to white-knuckle your way through the next flare-up.

Take the self-check3 minutes

You might recognise yourself here:

Pain, headaches or tension that keep coming back — relief lasts a few days, then you’re back where you started.
Being told it’s “just stress” — or “all in your head”, and starting to wonder if they’re right.
A big life chapter: perimenopause, a new baby, grief — or a career or relationship ending.
Being the one everyone leans on — at work, at home, as a carer, and quietly running on empty.
Not being able to switch off — a racing mind at 3am, a clenched jaw, guilt when you rest.
A body sending signals everywhere: gut, dizziness, fatigue — flares that shift with your cycle, including POTS, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, endometriosis or MCAS.
A sensitive or neurodivergent nervous system — swinging between “go mode” and shutdown.
Feeling numb, foggy or far from yourself — including after anxiety or past trauma.

How it works

Physio by video, step by step.

You don’t need to be in the same room for body-based work to happen. I guide you through each step, in your own space.

We start with your story
A 60-minute video assessment. I listen first, and you share only what feels right.
We make sense of your symptoms
Together, we work out how your nervous system might be contributing to what you’re feeling.
You take small practices into daily life
A few minutes, little and often. Practices that work with your body, not against it.

What to expect →

The ReCentre difference

For when the relief never lasts.

Your nervous system, not just the sore spot.

Physiotherapy that works with the system that keeps your symptoms going.

Believed, at your pace.

Your symptoms are taken seriously. You share only what feels right, from the comfort of home.

Small steps, lasting change.

Like a path worn through grass, a few minutes a day becomes the new way your body knows.

A nervous system stuck in a survival state might present with chronic pain, anxiety, chronic muscle tension, racing thoughts, headaches, overwhelm, digestive problems, insomnia, persistent loneliness, persistent lower back pain, persistent anger and a racing heart. Below, a Window of Regulation chart shows a day moving between hyperarousal (sympathetic response, such as anxiety and anger), the window of regulation (ventral vagal response, such as digestion, relaxation and rest) and hypoarousal (dorsal vagal response, such as apathy and hopelessness). — Window of Regulation graph: Jessica Maguire, Nervous System School. Used with permission.

Looking beneath the symptoms

Why it keeps coming back

Your nervous system has one job above all others: keeping you safe. When life has asked a lot of you, it can get stuck on high alert, and you feel it as pain, tension, fatigue and broken sleep. This work looks beneath the symptoms, helping your protective system learn it can stand down.

So why hasn’t it changed?

You’ve read the books, done the research, maybe worked through it in therapy, and that understanding matters. But knowing WHY lives in the thinking brain. Pain, tension and exhaustion are driven by the deeper, automatic parts of your nervous system, the parts that don’t respond to reasoning alone.

That’s where I work: step by step, building enough safety in your body that it can let go, and your life can get bigger again.

Want the science behind this? Read: More than “just relaxing” →

It’s not about being calm all the time

What can change

A healthy nervous system isn't calm all the time. It's flexible: it can rise to meet a challenge, then find its way back down again. That's what regulation really means.

If yours has been stuck on guard, it isn't broken. It's been protecting you. Building more flexibility in your nervous system can help you:

sleep more deeply, and wake with more energy
ease the tension and headaches that keep coming back
think more clearly, with less fog
move without bracing for the next flare-up
recover from stress, instead of staying stuck in survival mode
let your nervous and immune systems stop sounding the alarm, in your gut and right through your body
rest without guilt
say no and hold boundaries, without the spiral afterwards
feel more choice in how you respond to life
reconnect with people, your environment and yourself

You can't think your way to safety, but you can sense your way there, gently and at your own pace.