Customised Service

While we each share in the common experiences of pain, loss, suffering, stress and discontent at various times to varying degrees, the path of meaning-making and healing from those experiences is exquisitely individual for each and every person.

As such, my work with clients is shaped accordingly. With a passion to see lives transformed and hearts healed, using a creative and collaborative approach I provide individual counselling for adults and adolescents around a wide variety of issues.

And for those interested and who don’t mind wading through a bit of psychobabble…

My Framework

My framework is holistic, strongly integrative and highly relational. It draws on a wide range of interventions as is best fitting for the individual client's needs and preferences at any given time.  In this way our work together is experiential and highly collaborative. 

Aside from traditional talk therapy which some clients prefer, other therapeutic models and frameworks I draw on include Internal Family Systems, Expressive Therapies, Sensorimotor Art Therapy, Mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing, Interactive Drawing Therapy, NeuroAffective Touch, Work at the Clayfield, Gestalt Experimentation, Active Imagination work, and Symbol Play.

To my mind, who we are today is significantly shaped by past experiences, choices and relationships. Identifying and releasing any unhelpful, outworn patterns and scripts (all be they unconscious) of the 'back-there-and-then' is a powerful means to creating the new experience sought. In this way there are clear psychodynamic underpinnings to my approach.

Yet equally, I am person centred believing that each of us has an inner 'life-boat' - strong and buoyant - rich with resource and innate wisdom that helps us course correct, make new choices and create a rich, full and meaningful life for ourselves. My aim is to help people become more aware of this resource, to develop skills of deep attunement and to take steps towards the value-based growth revealed. In this way, my approach is strongly informed by the strength’s based, humanistic model.

My practice is further quietly informed by feminist and family systems theories which recognise the unavoidable, vital sociocultural and external factors at work in the life of a counsellee.  Relational context plays such a vital part in one’s experience of life and growth.

Finally, with a particular interest in neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology and brain/body integrative functioning, my approach is strongly informed by mind-body theories around attachment, nervous system regulation and 'bottom-up' sensorimotor processing. This is particularly so in cases of trauma resolution in which I draw heavily on Peter Levine’s trauma resolution model called Somatic Experiencing. For me this was the missing piece both personally in my own healing journey and professionally.

And if you've stuck with me to the end of this page, I applaud you. Thank you.

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