Individual Therapy

To help you to discover and deeply understand your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, how they have been shaped by your experiences in life, and how you can shift patterns that are no longer serving you.

I also specialise in how physical symptoms may relate to how you feel and vice versa. This approach is supported by the 21st century understanding of whole person healthcare, where life experiences, feelings and how different parts of your life may have impacted on your physical and mental health.

Trauma Work:

With trauma work my approach is a body focused one, as the title of van der Kolk says the ‘Body Keeps the Score’. Having you understand the connection between your thinking and emotions, I will support you to understand trauma is held in your body and because of at times overwhelming events in our lives, we had to disconnect from these feelings-emotions. We have in fact lived life in an anxious, on edge exhausting way to maintain how we think we should be and keep all of these conflicting feelings locked down.

Often we are unaware that this is what we have done, and we think being on edge and anxious is a normal way of living- believing that making other people happy will make us happy, constantly thinking and trying to figure out how to live life, often failing and finding ourselves repeating the same relationship/work situation / conflict over and over again. These are often trauma-based patterns.

With trauma, we have learnt that the body is not a safe space so getting to reconnect with our bodies is a gentle and staged process.