How I work:

I offer a confidential, non-judgemental and respectful space for you to talk about you and feel what you’re feeling. A large part of our work will be building a space where those two things feel possible. Safety is a felt experience and together we can explore what this means for you. It may be useful for us to explore events in your history and relationships in your childhood to better understand what you are feeling and experiencing in your present.

My humanistic integrative training means I draw from various therapeutic schools of thought and work to a relational model. In practice, what this means is that paramount to our work is creating a relationship which feels safe. I believe the foundations to this are built through the offering of empathy and unconditional positive regard with honesty and integrity.

I am trauma-informed and continue my training in how trauma shows up in our minds and body and how to work with it. Drawing from modalities such as Gestalt and Transactional Analysis, the therapeutic space can become an environment from which we can begin a journey towards a better understanding of the ways you think, feel and behave, as well as, perhaps, the way you haven’t been able to think, feel or do.

This is collaborative and non-linear work. Always, we will be in contact with the present. Always, I will meet you as another human being in this shared space together. We will look at what is coming up for you in the here and now, in your emotions and body, and how this impacts you and your relationships. If there is need for change, where is that change possible? What is the impact of change? What is the impact of stasis?

For me, therapy is not about fixing. It’s about harnessing enough self-awareness that we are able to liberate ourselves from thoughts and feelings that feel beyond our conscious choice. It is also about being able to let go of that which we cannot or decide we do not wish to change. It is about giving space for thoughts and feelings we have not had the freedom to feel or name. It is also about being met with compassion so that we can learn to meet our whole selves with that same compassion.

We are relational beings. Our personalities are shaped in relation to others. I believe we heal in relation to one another too.

For more information or to arrange an intro call, please get in touch.

Who I work with:

I have experience working with clients including but not limited to presentations of:

• anxiety disorders, depression and low mood

• exploring sexual identity and expression

• history of sexual abuse and assault

• relationship problems (family, romantic, work)

• sexual dysfunction

• fertility difficulties, abortion, pregnancy loss and the choice or loss of choice of having a child

• low self esteem

• psychosomatic disorders and chronic pain

• grief and bereavement