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"We spend so much of life learning how to survive.
Much of the deeper work is learning how to live, relate, feel, express, and connect more honestly within it."
WHY WORK WITH ME?
1.
SAFE, SUPPORTIVE & EMPOWERING SPACE
I create a trauma-informed, non-judgmental, confidential space - where your whole self is welcomed, and you don't have to have it all figured out.
Your nervous system can soften.
Your feelings can be met, felt and worked with.
I help you increase your awareness, skills, capacities. Support you in reconnecting with yourself, with choice, and with conscious aligned actions.
I guide you into becoming your own guide for yourself, and for the relationships and things in life you love and want to look after.
2.
INTEGRATIVE
MIND
& BODY
MODALITIES
My consulting and coaching approach bridges the intelligence of the mind, with the wisdom of the body, and the expressiveness of your whole being.
I bring a formal background in psychology, specialised trainings in trauma-informed somatic and cognitive modalities, ethical standards, three years of counselling experience & clinical supervison with the charity 'MIND'.
Along with all of my lived experiences, and a dedication to continued professional development (CPD).
I believe working with all that we are, our minds and our bodies, and coming at things from a holistic approach, offers the best outcomes and desired changes.
3.
TAILORED
&
INTUITIVE APPROACH
I believe every individual, couple, family, group and team is unique.
I incorporate modalities and practices that best serve my clients' specific needs, blocks and goals.
Theories & modalities I draw from include:
Polyvagal Theory,
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Strozzi Somatics
Hakomi
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Internal Family Systems
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Schema Therapy
Neuro-Linguisitic Programming
Attachment Theory
Systems Theory
Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Relational life therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Schema therapy for couples
Intergrative Behavioural Couples Therapy
Non-Violent Communication
MY CERTIFICATIONS
Mind-Body Coaching Certificate
✵ The Embody Lab
Integrative Somatic Parts Work
Levels 1, 2 & 3
✵ The Embody Lab
Trauma-Informed Coach
✵ The Center for Healing
Somatic Practitioner Mentorship
✵ The Embody Lab
Healing Trauma with Peter Levine
✵ The Embody Lab
Advanced Life Coaching
✵ The School of Natural Health Sciences
MY EDUCATION & TRAINING
Bsc (hons) Psychology
✵
Working with Fear of Rejection
✵ NICABM
The Neurobiology of Trauma
✵ NICABM
Relational Life Therapy
Level 1
✵ Relational Life Institute/Terry Real
Advanced Master Program on Treatment of Trauma
✵ NICABM
How to Help Reduce Chronic Pain
✵ NICABM
MY CORE VALUES
Connection
We are wired for connection. It's how we heal, grow, and remember that we belong. Connection invites us out of isolation, into intimacy with ourselves, others and the greater web of life. It's a felt experience of being seen, met and received just as we are.
We are also connected to and supported by all the nature animals and wildlife around us, and community.
Aliveness
Aliveness is vitality.
It's the pulse of pleasure, pain, rage and stillness. The spark of desire. The flow of passion.
When we reconnect with our full emotional and sensory range, we feel more here, more human. Aliveness doesn't always mean feeling good, it means being in contact with grief and joy, contraction and expansion. Aliveness is what makes life rich and worth living.
Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the willingness to feel deeply and act anyway - in service of what really matters.
It's a meeting point between intention and embodied action.
Courage is the capacity to be with fear and step into the gap between. To choose from something deeper - to act in alignment with our values and deepest intentions - even when our mind doubts or our nervous system comes online. Courage lives in big acts, and small radical ones e.g. breathing through discomfort, setting a boundary, revealing a part of our self that longs to be seen.
Expression
Expression is the unfolding of our inner world into form -through voice, words, emotions, movement, breath, sound, sensation, and story.
It's how we let others feel us, and how we reclaim parts of ourselves. True expression isn't about performance, it's about being honest in real time. It's the body saying "this is what true for me now". It's a liberation of the whole soma.
Growth
Growth is the ongoing journey of becoming. It is often non-linear, uncomfortable and deeply rewarding.
Its about unfolding what's already whole.
Shedding old skins and embracing our deeper layers and truths.
Growth asks us to meet resistance, show up for ourselves honestly and consistently, stretch beyond what's familiar, and keep choosing what aligns with who we are becoming.
Dignity