how I can help you

Choosing to start therapy is never an easy step. With so many approaches and styles, it may be hard to find what works for you. Together, we will decide which approach resonates with you and what type of therapy you are comfortable with. Therapy is an organic process, where you can be just as you are, with no judgement or expectations.

As an integrative psychotherapist, I use all my training and expertise to help you live in a more conscious and embodied way, to get to the root of your problems, and not just manage the symptoms. I work with an intuitive combination of talking therapy, mindfulness and body-based therapy, from yoga to martial arts, as appropriate for you. I believe that the journey through suffering, healing and self-development is a multi-faceted, dynamic unfolding path and, as such, it requires a truly holistic perspective of the individual, exploring how emotions, feelings, thoughts and self-beliefs affect the body and how, in turn, working with the body, breath and nervous system regulation may provide healing and respite from suffering. I value the therapeutic relationship as a source of real change and transformation, and I believe in an openness of practice and tailoring my approach to your unique and individual needs.

I work with children (12+), adolescents, and adults of all ages, and offer both short or long-term counselling and psychotherapy sessions. I have an LGBTQIA+ inclusive practice which honours all identities. I work in a neurodivergent affirming way, and the environment can be altered to suit your experience.

my approach to therapy

My practice is person-centred at its core, and informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Gestalt, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Somatic Trauma Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Existential Psychotherapy, Spiritual Counselling, and Yoga Therapy.

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, bodywork, breathwork, guided relaxations and active imagery to create a sensitive and interconnected map of both your internal and external worlds. This means that I am able to include:

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 of out of the problem, especially if it is rooted in trauma;
Somatic body-based therapy to focus on processing how your body holds these difficult internal chats, and offer regulation tools to such as breathing or grounding techniques. This approach can be extremely powerful in shifting deep emotions or self-beliefs, by way of re-balancing a nervous system that may have become dysregulated (anxiety, panic, hypervigilance, insomnia, chronic fatigue, to name a few of common, yet very unpleasant, symptoms);
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.

My approach is non-linear, and influenced by attachment-based and trauma-informed clinical approaches to therapy. I have completed extensive specialised training and studies on nervous system regulation, as well as on the impact trauma and addictions have on the body and on our capacity to navigate in our environment. I have a special interest in the passing on of family trauma and history, and in difficulties that may arise from navigating cross-cultural and social class expectations and differences.