my approach to therapy

I am trained in Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy (IYP), a pioneering psychotherapy model (NCIP Level 7) that integrates talking therapy with mindfulness, embodied somatic practices, breathing therapy, and Buddhist wisdom. My practice is IYP at its core, and informed by Humanistic psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family System (IFS), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Gestalt, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Somatic Trauma Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapy, and Spiritual Counselling.

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My therapeutic style is non-linear and influenced by attachment-based and trauma-informed clinical approaches to therapy. I offer a collaborative approach to therapy tailored to your needs, helping you to make sense of your challenges, whilst also learning practical tools to foster meaningful change. Breath, posture, sensations, and symptoms often carry deeper meanings that enhance insight and foster a growing capacity to hold ourselves with more complexity. This embodied exploration offers groundedness and safety to the therapeutic process. 

 

I honour the powerful and unique relationship between mind, body and soul to support you in welcoming a felt sense of joy, self-discovery, curiosity and self-understanding in all aspects of your life through an intuitive and individual blend of talk therapy, embodied somatic practices, breathwork, guided relaxations and active imagery to create a sensitive and interconnected map of both your internal and external worlds.

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This means that I am able to include:

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• Talking therapy to focus on developing the capacity of your mind to manage challenging internal chats, experiences, and beliefs. While this approach can be very useful, most times you can't think your way out of the problem, especially if it is rooted in trauma;

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• Somatic body-based therapy to focus on processing how your body holds these difficult internal chats, and offer regulation tools such as breathing or grounding techniques. Enriched by a solid foundation of medical principles, behavioural science and evidence-based practices, this approach can be extremely powerful in bringing compassionate curiosity around the body and shifting deep emotions or self-beliefs, by way of re-balancing a nervous system that may have become dysregulated for example (anxiety, panic, hypervigilance, insomnia, IBS, chronic fatigue, to name a few symptoms);

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• Contextual and systemic approaches to therapy, as relevant to you as an individual in the context of your wider systems, to see how your relationships, the institutions you are part of, and your wider environment may affect your experience.

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