My Therapeutic Approach
I keep my practice small so that you receive thoughtful, unhurried care in a private, longer‑term therapy relationship. I value depth over speed because meaningful change often takes time.
My approach has been shaped by many years of counselling, mental health nursing, ongoing professional training, and my own personal therapy. I aim to bring a gentle, collaborative, and curious presence to our work together, with space for you to understand yourself more deeply.
Working together over time
Many of the people I work with choose to continue therapy over months or years. This allows us to move through different chapters of life together — periods of change, setback, and steady growth — rather than focusing only on immediate concerns.
Hakomi therapy
Hakomi is a gentle, mindfulness‑based approach to therapy. We slow down and pay attention to what’s happening for you in the present moment — as it’s happening, not just as a memory or a story told afterwards.
This often reveals things that aren’t fully available to the thinking mind: old patterns, beliefs, and ways of protecting yourself that were formed early in life and continue to shape how you experience the world today.
Working this way tends to be slower and more experiential than conversation alone. It isn’t about analysing or explaining. It’s about noticing, with curiosity and care, what’s true for you right now, and allowing new understanding to emerge from that.
I’ve engaged with Hakomi through workshops over several years, and I’m currently undertaking formal professional training.
Initiatic Art therapy and SoulCollage®
What I bring to sessions comes from more than any one training. It’s shaped by a lifelong creative background, ongoing study over many years, and my own therapy — all of which continue to inform how I approach the work.
If I sense there may be another way of exploring something, I’ll offer it gently as an invitation, and together we can decide whether it feels helpful.
For example, we might use plasticine, crayons, or small figures to look at a family or workplace dynamic from the outside — stepping back and studying the picture together. It can be illuminating to notice the qualities of the figures or animals you choose for each person. Often they reveal something about the situation that hasn’t yet found words.
Or you might find yourself making a SoulCollage® card — searching through nature scenes until one resonates, then finding a figure to place within it, and exploring together what the whole image holds. Images can be powerful, and sometimes they reach something words alone can’t.
These are just a few examples of what might arise in a session. What actually happens depends entirely on you and on what feels alive in the room at the time.