I believe that therapy is a precious tool which can help people to explore, understand and successfully manage the life circumstances which has brought them to seek help.

By walking alongside, in your “neighbourhood of experience”, in a reliable, relational, safe, compassionate, caring, collaborative and curious way, I hope to provide you with a space to explore what life has thrown you so that you can find the emotional resilience and resourcefulness to recognise and manage feelings and difficult experiences.

My approach is bespoke and uniquely tailored for each client. My integrative training allows me to access a ‘toolbox’ of different psychotherapeutic models, including humanistic, psychodynamic and existential approaches together with more recent modalities such as sensorimotor psychotherapy, internal family systems and the polyvagal theory. The latter three are particularly useful for working with developmental (childhood) complex trauma. By drawing from this ‘toolbox’ we can see what works best for you, helping to understand who you are, and enabling you to be free of the past and live positively in the present.

Other creative tools that I use in therapy are visualisations, drawing and sand tray work, as and when they are appropriate, to help clients connect to their experiences.

Clients often ask what is “transpersonal”? Literally it means ‘beyond the persona’, or perhaps the mask that we often present to the world. Transpersonal psychotherapy explores the potential awakening and unfolding of consciousness that lies behind our experiences, to discover our life’s purpose. By working with my clients’ positive and negative experiences they can develop previously unknown qualities in themselves allowing insights into beliefs and behaviours, enabling them to understand their personal problems and challenges, and by growing and understanding themselves in new ways they are able to move beyond the ‘persona’.

“No recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a renewed faith in the universe. The therapist's job is not just to be a witness to this process but to teach the patient how.”

— Janina Fisher, “Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors”