Understanding change

I have long been interested in what makes change possible, not just intellectually, but in practice.

Many people arrive in therapy with real insight into themselves. They understand their patterns, they can trace something of where they came from. What they haven’t been able to do is shift them and this is what I find most compelling about the work: that understanding something – often clearly – doesn’t always free us from it.

The patterns that shape how we relate, to others and to ourselves, are rarely just held in thought. They live in the body, in automatic responses, in the beliefs we formed early on about whether we’re loveable, whether others can be trusted, whether closeness is safe. It’s exploring these patterns – especially the ones we can’t yet see clearly – that creates the conditions for something to genuinely change.

My approach is embodied, relational, and active. I work with the whole person, not just the thinking mind.

My background

I hold a Master’s in Integrative Psychotherapy and a Diploma in Art Therapy, and have built on that foundation through ongoing specialist training.

My work is informed by attachment and relational perspectives, existential and psychodynamic thinking, and cognitive and neuroscientific understandings of how we change.

In addition to my core training, I have undertaken specialist work in EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and I am currently training in Hakomi , a mindfulness-based somatic approach that works with the core beliefs and patterns formed through early relational experience and the ways these show up in the body and in present relationships. I am also completing an Advanced Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy at the NAOS Institute, working toward specialist accreditation in relationship work.