Integrative Psychotherapist
MA, MBACP
About Me
I am an integrative psychotherapist which means I have studied a wide range of different styles of therapy and incorporate them all into my practice. I have a warm and relaxed manner and aim to put my clients at ease. I encourage my clients to be as open and honest as they can be about how they are feeling and what's going on for them and hope to offer a nurturing and unjudgemental space for us to explore what's happening together.
I also work as a yoga therapist and have a deep interest in the body's way of processing things. I can focus on somatic exploration or offer regulating tools in the form of breathwork and meditation if that is of interest to my clients.
My unprocessed bereavement from childhood is what personally brought me to therapy. This has made me tuned in particularly to bereavement, inner child work, childhood trauma, and reparative developmental therapy.
I use she/her pronouns and am part of the LGBTQIA+ community. ​​​
My Approach
I am interested in how my clients are orientating themselves in the world and whether they are connecting to their resources. The work may involve identifying unconscious repetitive patterns of thought or behaviour which may be blocking their growth.
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I think it can be very useful to look back into childhood and explore what relational configurations we were a part of and how that has impacted us and if it is continuing to affect us now. In the first few sessions I may ask more questions to get more context on my client’s background and history and then like to work in a way which is client-led which means working with whatever my client wants to talk about at each session as their life and inner process unfolds. I encourage my clients to be vocal about the therapy itself and will do regular reviews to check in on how they think it’s going.
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I may offer up some therapeutic ideas or practices which my client can take or leave as they like. Examples of these would be theory, breathwork, visualisation, mindfulness, chair work, part work, somatic work, philosophy, EFT. I think therapy can be a playful space where one can look at their life and situation from different perspectives. This is all with the aim of integration in mind.
