HOLISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, COACHING AND MOVEMENT THERAPY

Specialist in attachment and relational difficulties, child and parent work

~ The work of true healing begins in the heart, and embraces all of us ~

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After many years of experiencing different therapies, and sixteen years of training and practicing with Western and Eastern approaches, two principles have become central to my work today.

First, I believe that the energy of loving kindness is our most powerful tool for healing, across all approaches. Gaining deeper understandings of our minds can support our growth. Yet for us to truly find freedom from familiar cycles of suffering, we must know what it is to feel inner peace, safety and love, and begin to experience this consistently. Early in life, our unconscious minds created many ways to protect us from pain when we lacked these feelings. Minds cling to their old self-protection patterns, even when it is apparent they are now holding us back. We must help our unconscious minds to trust that it is safe to let go now. This is possible when we learn to receive and give true loving kindness, firstly to ourselves.

Secondly, I believe that to heal as a whole, our healing journey must treat and nurture us as a whole – mind, body and spirit. When our wellbeing is deficient, imbalances and blockages evolve across our system; unhelpful lifestyle habits can be fuelled by our struggles and can also perpetuate or worsen them – and so the cycle continues. If we can be helped to discover and implement manageable lifestyle changes to support our psychological, physical and/or spiritual health alongside working therapeutically within a safe and compassionate relationship, our chances of true healing are exponentially increased.

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I work from my heart, to help you reconnect with yours. And I work with you holistically to think about all of you.

~ Let’s start at the very beginning – it’s a very good place to start ~

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I specialise in work with parents and children, and relational difficulties. I also specialise in working with your inner parent and child, and your relationship with yourself.

My years of studying developmental psychology and the unconscious, and experience of working with high levels of complex developmental trauma in the UK health and social care systems over the past decade, all lend themselves well to this. So does my background in the creative arts, holistic therapies, and my passion for healing through somatic practices and play. I like to think outside boxes, and allow for shapes we haven’t yet imagined.

All of us have ghosts in our nurseries. But we don’t need to be haunted by them. We can learn to talk to them with love and compassion, so they can learn to rest. Breaking cycles of transgenerational trauma is absolutely possible. I can support you in this journey, and help you to live the life you really want for yourself.

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