Services

Individualised counselling sessions aim at supporting change so women of all ages can lead more empowered and creative lives. To facilitate this, I strive to create a safe, non-judgemental therapeutic environment for you to work at your own pace, clarify troubling or challenging areas in your life, and plan and pursue goals.  I view the therapeutic relationship as a collaboration in which I companion and support you to develop opportunities for effecting change whilst drawing on a range of therapeutic techniques to suit your needs.

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I have a deep understanding of the complex and far-reaching impacts of trauma and the silencing that often accompanies it and recognise that a multitude of factors can influence and severely impact women’s lives. I trust, however, that all women, when supported and encouraged, have the capacity to make changes to their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing, even if they might currently be feeling overwhelmed or vulnerable. 

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My integrative approach is person-centred, trauma-informed, psychodynamic, and body-mind focused, supported by a synthesis of four key frameworks: somatics; the 'Three-Phase Approach to Trauma Recovery'; polyvagal theory; self-compassion. If appropriate, I may offer psychoeducation materials to support exploration and understanding. This can help you find new ways to work through and integrate experiences and challenges, bring about desired change, and re-gain life balance.

 

Sessions run for 50 minutes and may be facilitated in a number of ways depending on your personal needs. Along with the capacity to listen deeply and offer prompts when needed, I have expertise in body-mindfulness techniques and, where appropriate, these and other creative forms of exploration and expression may be introduced. I also value and encourage self-care practices, including the pursuit of activities and interests that can nourish and enrich your life.

My individual somatic therapy sessions are for women in all life stages and offer a safe, non-judgemental therapeutic space of support and inquiry. Your needs will determine the focus and shape of sessions: you might have a desire to explore a past, recent, or current concern or experience, or a wish to reconnect with or develop a more easeful relationship with your body, or an interest in engaging with alternative forms of communication and expression.

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Sessions will include discussion but with a body-mind focus, foregrounding the understanding that it is through our bodies we take in, process, and store information as we navigate the past, experience the present, and negotiate the future.

 

Learning more about your nervous system through neuroeducation, and somatically exploring thoughts, feelings, and life experiences can enable increased bodily understanding and a greater sense of connection and integration. Somatic-focused work can be deeply nourishing and may lead to improved physical and psychological comfort and the capacity to participate in your life with greater ease, renewed vitality, and creativity.​

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My approach is influenced by the principles of *Body-Mind Centering® and other somatic practices, and informed by my ongoing professional development in somatics, neurobiology, contemporary counselling therapies, and feminist philosophies.