How I Work
My training is integrative, which means that I am experienced in drawing on a range of therapeutic models and perspectives to help you better understand recurring relational patterns, coping mechanisms, and behaviours that may be influencing your life outside your conscious awareness. The four main approaches I draw on are: psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal. I also incorporate EMDR into my practice as and when appropriate.
The transpersonal aspect of my training, alongside my experience as a meditation teacher and 30 year personal spiritual practice, has equipped me to support you in exploring the deeper meaning of the challenges you bring to therapy, as well as your broader life journey and sense of purpose. To this end, I can include guided visualisations/meditations and dream work to help you connect to your inner world and your authentic self and drawing to help you express and feelings and experiences that are difficult to put into words.
My professional experience before training as a therapist was as a practitioner and teacher of energy work, trauma-informed somatic work and yoga/meditation. My approach is informed by these allied fields and I work in a trauma-sensitive, heart-centred way, holding a safe and compassionate space that supports the healing of emotional wounds and the gentle release of body-held symptoms and energetic blocks.
I consider therapy to be a collaborative process in which we explore together your experiences with curiosity, compassion and honesty and I see each person as a whole, where mind, body, and feelings are deeply interconnected in ways that shape overall wellbeing.
I offer presence, depth and sensitivity and a truly holistic and creative approach to meet the uniqueness and complexity of who you are.
In all instances I adhere to UKCP Code of Ethics and work in strict confidentiality.
If you would like to book an initial session to find out if therapy or counselling can help, please contact me by email or phone.
