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About SOS Therapies Cornwall

Helping you to help yourself

Helping You Heal – Physically and Emotionally

Welcome to SOS Therapies Cornwall, where your well-being comes first.
I’m Sharon O’Sullivan, a highly experienced, trauma-informed Chartered Physiotherapist with over 19 years of expertise. I’m fully HCPC registered, insured, and committed to helping you feel your best—inside and out.

Why Choose SOS Therapies Cornwall?

✔ Specialist in Orthopaedics & Sports Rehabilitation
Helping you recover from injuries, prevent future problems, and stay active.

✔ Trauma-Informed Care
Safe, compassionate support for individuals dealing with stress, burnout, trauma, persistent pain, or emotional challenges.

✔ Emotional & Somatic Regulation Therapy
When the effects of trauma, stress, or chronic pain impact your life, I provide tailored 1:1 sessions and small group programs to restore balance.

✔ Trusted by Professionals
Referrals from local GPs, psychiatry teams, and occupational health departments. I also have a special interest in supporting NHS staff.

Sharon O'Sullivan of SOS Therapies
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Personalised rehabilitation & somatic regulation

Personalised rehabilitation for acute or chronic injuries, and injury prevention, to help you enjoy life with less interference from the sensation of pain.

Specialist for NHS staff (clinical and non clinical) to help you navigate the challenges that can occur and to help build resilience to get you enjoying life again and back in work.

SOS Therapies Cornwall

Sharon O’Sullivan

Yoga found Sharon many moons ago and changed the course of her life. She started practising yoga nearly 30 years ago. A deep curiosity into how peaceful and balanced it made her feel and her love of movement and all things holistic led her to study physiotherapy, yoga and yoga therapy in Ireland, India and the UK. She comes from the basis of very much discovering this path for her own journey and has walked her own path and continues to do so every day. What she has found of personal benefit, she has then used to become tools in her own toolbox and later studied, in order to share. She now works privately offering emotional regulation through somatic practices in Cornwall. She is also an NHS advanced practice orthopaedic physiotherapist both HCPC and CSP registered and fully insured.

She has completed training in trauma informed yin yoga, clinical pilates, strength and conditioning, yoga nidra, myofascial release. She continues to practise vipassana meditation and utilises this in both her professional and personal life. She is also a qualified pregnancy yoga and pregnancy pilates teacher. For body work; She is acupuncture trained for physios and she has nearly 20 years experience of bodywork/ massage with specific techniques for emotional release as well as general musculoskeletal requirements. Breath awareness is very much a part of her own coping mechanisms to life’s stressors and she combines this into every session.

At the core, of all she does , she believes we all have the tools within our bodies to heal and sometimes we may need help/guidance. Her evolving role in trauma informed therapy incorporating movement and bodywork is to enable you to access your own body to start managing uncomfortable emotions, emotional regulation through mindful movement, play and guided relaxation.

Fact about SOS: She adores horses, trees and the great outdoors. She is hoping to weave this more into her therapy work. Watch this space! 

Qualifications

Continued professional development courses & workshops attended

  • DSY TTC Yoga Therapy, 250 hr (2024–26, 18 months)
  • MSc Module: Image Interpretation (Sheffield Hallam, 2024)
  • Myofascial Release, Yoga Medicine, 50 hr CPD (2024)
  • Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Online 5 hr + 20 hr (2023)
  • Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga Therapy, 30 hr (2023)
  • MSc Modules: Gait, University of Plymouth (2022)
  • Pilates APPI Ante-natal & Post-natal (2022)
  • Trauma Informed Yin Yoga, 100 hr (2021–22)
  • Bridge to Lotus Flow, Laughing Lotus, Paris (2019)
  • Yoga Nidra Immersion, Uma & Nirlipta Dinsmore, Stroud (2018)
  • Lower Limbs Webinar (2017)
  • Hydrotherapy Refresher: Evacuation (2017)
  • Jems Parts 1–4 (2015–17)
  • Teacher Training: Yoga for Lower Back Pain (2016–17)
  • APPI Clinical Pilates Level 1–3 (2015–17)
  • Yoga Workshop with Manju Jois (2016)
  • Diploma in Yoga Therapy, 250 hr, Vasishta Yoga Foundation, Kerala (2015)
  • Hydrotherapy, ATACP Foundation in Aquatic Training, Bristol (2015)
  • AACP Foundation Acupuncture, London (2015)
  • FISIC Sports Injury Conference, London (2014)
  • SIJ Course, Howard Turner, Plymouth Hospitals Trust (2 days, 2014)
  • Yoga Teacher Training, 300 hr, Yoga Vidya Gurukul, Maharashtra, India (2013)
  • Paediatric Orthopaedic Course, RCHT, Truro (1 day, 2013)
  • Ankylosing Spondylitis: Assessment & Treatment for Physios, St Georges, London (2 days, 2013)
  • Mulligan Concept: NAGs, SNAGs & MWMs (Linda Exelby, 2012)
  • Southwest Sports Seminar (2 days, 2012)
  • Diving Injury Seminar (2012)
  • ACL Rehabilitation, Lee Hamilton (2011)
  • Managing Difficult Lower Limb Tendinopathies, Peter Malliaris (2011)
  • Shoulder Instability & Rotator Cuff Problems, Anju Jaggi (2011)
  • Pilates for Lower Back Pain Evening Seminar, Truro (3 hr, 2011)
  • Introduction to Normal Movement, Bobath Association (2010)
  • Sports Massage Therapy, Active IQ (2009)
  • Foundation Yoga Teacher Training, Devon School of Yoga (2007)–
Get in touch

Is persistent pain interfering with your well being?

Together, we can discuss a plan to move on from this moment to get you back to your sport of choice, your normal activities or simply to enjoy life more with less interference from the sensation of pain.