Go your own way
Life is never straightforward, but if you find yourself struggling more than usual I can help.
I will work with you to explore what it means to be human, untangle the messy bits and find new ways through.
In our weekly sessions we will process what’s happening in your mind and body, whilst making sense of life and finding meaning in your experiences.
I offer medium term psychotherapy, for people who are experiencing problems with:
ANXIETY
Do you feel on edge, jittery or unable to sleep?
Stress triggers an emotional fire alarm for impending danger. Anxiety is when we’re stuck in a state of hyper-vigilance and the alarm repeatedly goes off.
What might happen if you could respond more appropriately to the situation you’re in?
RELATIONSHIPS
Are you stuck in a rut, repeating patterns or struggling with attachment?
Early and significant relationships are essential for brain development and have consequences that impact our day-to-day lives.
What might happen if you could understand why you think, feel and do what you do?
TRAUMA
Has something happened to shake your sense of safety in the world?
Survival depends on our neurobiological system regulating responses to our environment. Trauma overrides the system and can leave the body stuck in a state of terror.
What might happen if you could process your pain and bring your body back to healthy regulation?
It’s important to know that psychotherapy is not a promise of a “cure” for symptoms. You aren’t “broken”. You don’t need “fixing”. Survival defences that have developed over a lifetime will not just go away overnight. Nor should they. Psychotherapy creates a safe space from which to understand what the survival responses are telling you and whether they are needed now.
I ask that clients commit to 3 or 6 months work because this frame creates a safe container for therapy to unfold. After this, clients will have gained enough insight to choose whether they have what they need, or to seek out a longer term process.
You can read about my approach to psychotherapy here.
How I can help you
DEEP DIVE
24 session programme of 1-to-1 psychotherapy (6 months), focussed on a specific challenge, or curiosity to make sense of life.
Are you finding it hard to manage the complexities of day-to-day life? Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious or concerned you can’t cope? Are your relationships suffering? Or has something happened that you’re finding it hard to move on from?
Or, are you simply curious to understand yourself better, to explore what it means to be human, untangle the messy bits and find new ways through?
I can help you understand what’s happening - and make a change.
Trauma is a kind of wound: if we just treat the bleeding, we’ll never uncover the cause. I recognise dis-ease as stemming from trauma and seek to uncover the source, be that early or significant relational experiences, shocking events or both.
Memories that are held out of our conscious reach, can be felt in one of the numerous organs connected to the brain via the Vagas nerve (lungs, heart, stomach, intestines). This can cause devastating effects on the mind body system, such as anxiety, pain, overwhelm and relationship problems.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
By understanding your experiences together, we can process your pain and find new ways through.
I work with people like you to explore the complexities of being human. In this goal-focussed 6 month process, we will meet weekly to work on:
Your life story: what happened and what has this left you with?
Self regulation: effective ways to help when you feel overwhelmed, anxious, stuck, hopeless or numb.
Trauma and the mind body system: reversing trauma’s imprint on your emotions and physiology to release symptoms and move on with your life.
My practice integrates a relational framework that draws on trauma-informed psychodynamic theory and is grounded in interpersonal neurobiology. I use body and narrative processes to help you integrate your experiences, re-write your story and make empowered choices.
What’s included
Weekly 50-minute sessions at a dedicated time, for the duration of the programme.
Relational psychotherapy process with evidence-based strategies.
Psychoeducation to help you understand what’s happening in your mind body system.
All sessions are held online, in the comfort and convenience of your own space.
MOTHER NURTURE
12 or 24 session programme of 1-to-1 psychotherapy (3 or 6 months), focussed on healing for mothers and mothers-to-be.
Are you a mum or mum-to-be and struggling with your new life? Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious or concerned you might be experiencing postnatal depletion or depression? Did your birth not go as planned and you're finding it hard to move on?
Or, are you pregnant again - or considering trying for a baby - and finding previous pregnancy or birth experiences impacting your life and decisions now?
I can help you understand what’s happening - and make a change.
Pregnancy and birth trauma can lead to Post Traumatic Stress symptoms, which are like a fire alarm constantly going off in your mind body system. Feelings of anxiety, fear, helplessness, hopelessness and anger alongside the distressing replaying or avoidance of memory, take their toll.
It makes sense that you’re exhausted.
Trauma changes our response to the world. The more our nervous systems are stuck in a traumatic state, the more we perceive danger in our everyday lives.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
By understanding your experiences together, we can process your pain and find new ways through.
I work with mums and mums-to-be to explore this time of transition. In this goal-focussed 3 month process, we will meet weekly to work on:
Your pregnancy/birth story: what happened and what has this left you with?
Self regulation: effective ways to help when you feel overwhelmed, anxious, stuck, hopeless or numb.
Trauma and the mind body system: reversing trauma’s imprint on your emotions and physiology to release symptoms and move on with your life.
My practice integrates a relational framework that draws on trauma-informed psychodynamic theory and is grounded in interpersonal neurobiology. I use body and narrative processes to help you integrate your experiences, re-write your story and make empowered choices.
What’s included
Weekly 50-minute sessions at a dedicated time, for the duration of the programme.
Relational psychotherapy process with evidence-based strategies.
Psychoeducation to help you understand what’s happening in your mind body system.
All sessions are held online, in the comfort and convenience of your own space.
Short and medium term therapy is a safe way of containing and exploring deep work. Psychotherapy is not a guarantee of a cure of symptoms, but a way to understand yourself better, to process what’s happening in your mind and body and find meaning in your experiences.
I am a UKCP accredited Clinical Psychotherapist, bringing experience from business, the arts and yoga into my practice.
Online Therapy
available wherever you are
Approach to Psychotherapy
As a UKCP accredited Clinical Psychotherapist, I specialise in the mind body connection. This means that I work with people who are experiencing anything from embodied symptoms, such as those common with anxiety, through to people struggling with relationships and the fallout from shocking events (trauma).
I work within time-limits with clear and agreed goals, regular check-ins and space for reflection. This helps create safe boundaries and structure thinking for both client and therapist.
My clients are predominately young adults in their twenties and thirties who are interested in making sense of their lives and are ready for change. I take a trauma-informed view and consider my client’s problems in terms of the impact of their experiences: the meanings they make and the choices they take as individuals.
I believe all humans are unique and my curiosity lies in the intangible and creative qualities that we bring to the world. Whilst I speak the language of the DSM-V and work with professionals who use this for diagnosis and treatment, I do not hold this as the only truth. Instead, my starting point is our basic human need for psychological security and what happens when our lives begin with shaky foundations or are disrupted through trauma.
I do not think: “What is wrong with you?”
Instead I ask: “What happened to you?”
Fundamental to my position is the theoretical grounding that relationships shape emotional and physical wellbeing: we thrive, suffer or survive through the relational experiences we find ourselves in. Our early and significant attachment experiences are held, often unconsciously, in our mind body systems, meaning these experiences impact day-to-day functioning and embodied experience for a lifetime.
Ultimately, my aim is to empower people to process experiences, find new narratives and develop healthier relationships with themselves and others.
I believe that working on resolving trauma has the power to not only change individual lives, but it has an irreversible ripple effect across families, communities and future generations.