Emotional Release Workshops

22/07/2025

👋 Welcome! My name is Somesh Valentino Curti. Since 2011, I’ve been working as a psychologist for expats in Amsterdam. I speak English and Italian, and my practice offers a safe space to explore what’s not working in your life—and to begin changing it.

🌱 Whether you’re feeling stuck in anxiety, facing relationship challenges, or struggling with emotional instability or addiction, our work together can help you uncover what’s underneath and reconnect with what truly matters to you. My aim is to help you feel better about yourself, meet your essential needs, and grow toward more openness, sensitivity, and aliveness.

💬 I support clients with a wide range of issues:
• Expat life & identity
• Stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem
• Relationship & couple dynamics
• Sexuality & psychos*xual healing
• Addictions (food, s*x, substances, work, etc.)

🔍 My approach is structured yet intuitive. We start with a first session to get to know each other and then move into a 7-session Basic Program to explore your situation, your goals, and the right therapeutic tools. We evaluate and deepen as needed, always at your rhythm.

🌀 I also co-facilitate Emotional Release Workshops and sessions with my wife and colleague, Tessa Curti-Nagtegaal. This work combines emotional expression, meditation, and body-oriented therapy to reconnect you with your inner vitality and truth.

✨ My experience is rooted not only in my training and degrees but in my own personal journey as an expat and seeker. I’ve worked in Italy, India, Greece, and now Amsterdam—each step enriching my perspective. I’ve gone through my own transformations and now support others from a place of presence and compassion.

📞 You’re welcome to reach out for sessions. I offer sessions Tuesday to Friday. Let’s talk and see how I can support you on your path.

Thank you for your attention,
Somesh
www.expat-therapist.com

17/07/2025

We hope you are ENJOYING YOUR SUMMER! 🌞 (stay grounded!)
This is our suggestions: 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭!

After the summer, many of us naturally shift inward again. The days get cooler, we sit more, and we begin to feel what’s under the surface. That would be the perfect moment to reconnect with your body.

🌿 GROUNDED. returns on 20 September 🌿
Our Grounded Emotional Release Workshop helps you:
- Come home to yourself
- Release tensions
- Prepare for a grounded start in autumn!

Sign up now to reserve your spot and get the Early bird price:
👉https://emotional-release-workshops.com/grounded-workshop/

We are looking forward to see you in September!

14/07/2025

Such a great group last Saturday for the Understanding & Expressing Anger workshop! We had beautiful circle sharings, explored anger in the body, had a real opportunity for release and talked about regulation. Thanks to all 8 participants who joined so courageously and openly and who, just with their presence, loud breath, sounds or screams, supported others as well on their journey.

01/07/2025

🤩Have you read this 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 on IamExpat.nl?

It was written by Expat Therapist Amsterdam - Somesh Valentino Curti and is about how we can be triggered in certain life situations and how to deal with our reactions --->>>
https://www.iamexpat.nl/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/old-wounds-present-reactions-how-body-remembers-what-mind-forgets

As more people understand how their past shapes their present emotions, it's important to recognise that the body plays a role in remembering past traumas.

12/06/2025

This workshop provides a safe space to explore your feelings around anger and develop more capacity to regulate and release it.

In our Understanding & Expressing Anger Workshop we guide you through techniques to understand, feel through and express your anger and rage effectively. Develop the capacity to regulate and release your anger.

04/06/2025

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩?
𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑔 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑡ℎ, 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛? 𝑌𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒!

Welcome to our body-based, heart-open, sometimes-loud, always-authentic offering.

Our workshops are for people who are done with overthinking, tired of being stuck in their heads, and ready to come back to their bodies.
We guide you through powerful practices like:
🧘‍♂️ Grounding exercises to bring you back to the here and now
💃 Movement meditation & dance to unlock tension and get energy flowing
🔊 Voice work (including soundmaking and sometimes screaming)
🤸‍♀️ Bioenergetics and body shaking (your nervous system will thank you)
💬 Sharing circles and role-playing for connection and insight

We will not teach you much theory. We help you to have an experience. This is about getting up and feeling what’s going on inside you, move it, express it, and let your system do what it knows how to do—release.

Yes. Sometimes people scream at our workshops! And often they end up feeling very relieved afterwards. It’s not weird, It’s actually really natural.
We hold a space that is deeply respectful and safe, so you can let go at your own pace. No one is ever forced to scream, dance, or even speak if they don’t want to. But chances are, by the end, you’ll want to try it for yourself.

Who are we?
We are Tessa & Somesh: both deeply trained in Psychology and Body-oriented Therapy as well as spiritual traditions like Advaita Vedanta, Ta**ra, Sufism, and energy work.
We’ve been in this workfield for about 15 years now and we’ve lived and breathed everything we share! Think of us as experienced guides who are passionate about helping people return to their bodies, emotions, and inner clarity.

Who usually joins our workshops?
• Expats and locals in or near Amsterdam
• People who’ve tried therapy or meditation and are now ready for a next level of experiencing themselves
• Sensitive souls who are tired of feeling overwhelmed
• Curious humans who want to explore voice, movement, and emotion in a safe group

Our participants often leave saying they feel lighter, more present, clearer in the head, softer in the body, and less alone. Some say, “I didn’t even know I needed this,” or “I thought it would be scary but it felt like coming home.”

All you need is a little curiosity and a willingness to try something new. Let’s shake it off, breathe it out, and come back to what’s real!

01/06/2025

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 - 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃. 𝐢𝐧 𝟐 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬

If you feel like:
- Slowing down
- Centering
- Being gentle with yourself
- Finding your breath, your body, finding your place,
- Expressing yourself
- Releasing tensions
- Refreshing joy and aliveness...

You're in the right place!

✨ New to our workshops? ✨
We create a safe and joyful space where you can reconnect. You don’t need to be experienced, come as you are 🥰

01/06/2025

✨ New to our workshops? ✨

You might feel curious—and a little nervous—about joining a workshop that includes movement, voice, and emotion. That’s completely okay.

We create a safe and joyful space where you can reconnect with your body, express what’s been held inside, and feel more present and alive.

You don’t need to be experienced. You don’t need to scream. You don’t even need to talk much if you don’t want to. Just bring yourself, as you are.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩?
we often include:

- Grounding & centering exercises
- Body shaking
- Voice expression (like sighing, humming, sound-making or screaming)
- Tension-release exercises
- Sharing circles (optional)

You are always free to choose your own pace. There’s no pressure to go further than you feel ready for.

28/05/2025

Have you seen our "Past Events" page? We just saw that it's 10 years now that we are offering our Emotional Release Workshops... and before that we were already organizing groups as well. What an adventure! Take a look - and scroll down to see some nice inside workshop experience pictures 😍

Explore images of the transformative experiences of our past events where community and healing came together