Therapy

Face-to-face counselling, freeing negative energy.

The growing of a therapeutic relationship as crucible for healing and transformation takes place slowly, over time. The journey to explore the darkness and the light towards wholeness requires, at times, a meandering path through the deep dark forest and time in the meadow.

I offer myself as a trauma informed companion, willing to accompany those seeking to know something of where they are, based on where they have been and the ways they have been shaped by life’s experiences. Each counselling relationship, as crucible, is unique and follows a course charted by the client, who intuitively knows what they need to heal, and will be supported to grow their power and trust their instincts. There will be pauses, rapid expansion, rest and reflection; these journeys of the heart and soul take time.

I work from a primarily psychodynamic framework, drawing on ancient knowledge about healing and transformation. This is greatly informed by 21st century neuroscience, confirming ancient understanding of how our bodies hold onto trapped energies and how they heal. I also draw on my training in somatic psychotherapy, understanding the benefits of freeing ourselves from old stories to land wholly in the present.

Working Somatically

  • Allowing the body to complete discharge of thwarted survival state energies

  • Building insight and power to overcome helplessness and rage

  • Increasing access and availability to uniquely effective grounding techniques

Healing in Relationship – Therapy Relationship as Medicine

  • Improving connection with self and others, building insight, recognising capacities

  • Being seen and heard builds relational safety and rebuilds the sense of self in connection with a safe other

Anchoring in Presence

  • Supporting the body to release the past

  • Making a home in the ‘here and now’

  • A regulated nervous system allows and supports dynamic equilibrium – appropriate response to threat, supporting states of rest and digest, playfulness and energetic drive toward achievement and growth

Charting Your Unique Path to Recovery

  • Using your inherent untapped creativity for your individual recovery path

  • Re-establishing ownership of your body, mind and spirit

  • Develop skills for calm and focus, maintaining a calm response to triggers, becoming fully alive in the present and engaged with self and others, not keeping secrets from the self about what you needed to do to survive

My Unique Method

Trauma-Informed

  • These principles inform and enliven all aspects of the therapeutic alliance and the work of therapy: putting action to empowerment, trustworthiness, safety, collaboration, and choice

Therapeutic Alliance

  • I am committed to your recovery

  • We will spiral through establishing safety, remembering, sensing and feeling, reconnecting you with your life, always attending to the direction you choose to take

  • I will be by your side as a worthy companion: specialist trauma recovery accompaniment

The Transformative Power of Story

  • Story as map and compass: locating where you are at, where you are headed; path finding

  • Recognising symbols and archetypes present in your life, exploring your instinctual self and ancient wisdom of trauma recovery, a journey shared by countless humans before you

  • Utilising your creativity and imagination as essential tools for envisioning and manifesting new possibilities