Therapeutic Approach
People come to therapy for wildly different reasons. Some are in transitional moments in life, some are going through a major loss or illness, some people feel a vague sense of numbness, others are having difficulty in their intimate relationships. Therapy covers many terrains.
What happens in any given session is a spontaneous emergence. The way that I am in the therapy space is focused on listening to the whole person I’m with. What is being said, with words, as well as the body, and what’s happening between us.
I draw from gestalt therapy, somatic and existential psychotherapy, and psychodynamic understandings.
I enjoy working with dreams and embodied experiencing, to contact parts of the self which can be difficult to access. We may work with young parts of you, dialoguing with them and learning their motivations, eventually leading to a greater integration of your wants, needs and actions.
Attachment is at the core of the work, meaning we can look at the ways your experience of yourself has been shaped by early life experiences of others. This allows you the freedom to choose if this inheritance is serving you well or if it is outdated.
I work from a small mudbrick cottage (10 mins from Daylesford) which is on a bushy property and allows access to sessions outside if this feels right. Engaging with the natural world as part of therapy can help to bring a sense of our wider belonging in the web of life.
My perception of any client is always informed by our embeddedness in nature and the systems which govern us. The broad social systems we are situated in create hierarchies of power and domination which impact each of us - therapy is a space to explore this aspect of our lives and cultivate honest self-compassion.
Would you like to make contact?
You’re most welcome to call, email or fill out the form on this page to begin our work together.