The therapies I use are validated by scientific research and are consistent with psychological, biological and medical science. This might include listening compassionately to you and helping you to develop compassion for yourself, and helping you to identify internal conflicts within your mind to work towards establishing greater internal harmony. Your therapy may involve learning more about your difficulties, and the research that explains how to resolve them. In some cases, we may look at your habits and thinking patterns and work towards adjusting them so that you behave in ways that enhance your wellbeing. In many cases, we will look at specific skills you can learn to improve your stress levels, emotion management, your communication style, or other relevant areas of your life.

I offer therapy for adults with a broad range of difficulties.

Specific therapies I practice include:

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) – a therapy for trauma, phobias, grief, and other difficulties that helps people to resolve past troubling experiences and connect themselves with healthier and more functional aspects of themselves.

Mindfulness Therapies – therapies that teach people to focus deliberately on the present moment, and change the common habit of spending most of life either re-living the past or worrying about the future.  Becoming mindful of what is going on in our bodies is a core aspect of wellbeing, as it enables us to pro-actively take care of our bodies. There is a broad range of mindfulness practices, including focus on the breath, the body, sensations, thoughts, interpersonal awareness, developing insight and compassion, all of which may be valuable at different times for different purposes.

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – focuses on identifying people's most cherished values, and committing to living according to them in the here and now.
• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) – focuses on developing compassion for oneself, and learning to change self-critical thinking.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – develops your mindfulness strategies to enable a closer observation of what is happening in your body.  With curiosity, and a paced exploration of a part of your embodied experience, this therapy helps you develop resources to address discomfort in your body, and resolve blocked feelings and movement patterns to enhance your sense of wellbeing in your body.

Parts Work Therapies – parts work therapies focus on developing a map of the functioning of your mind and nervous system.  I approach these therapies with a neurobiological orientation, meaning that I am curious about your survival responses, and how these have been shaped by the adversity in your life.  Anyone who has their survival responses ongoingly activated by adversity is predisposed to trauma, and will have parts of their nervous system focused on managing those trauma responses.  I work integratively when doing parts work, drawing from the Model of Structural Dissociation, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems and Ego State Therapy.

Schema Therapy – an integrative therapy incorporating aspects of CBT, Gestalt therapy and psychodynamic therapy that helps people to recognise and resolve unhelpful, lifelong patterns of thoughts and behaviour that originated in childhood or adolescence, and choose new more helpful ways of thinking and behaving to improve wellbeing.

My areas of specialty are:

• Trauma and Complex Trauma
• Anxiety and Stress
• Mood Disorders and Difficulties
• Assertiveness and Communication Skills
• Enduring difficulties originating in childhood or early adolescence
• Dissociative Disorders
• Phobias and Panic
• Addictions

My CV can be viewed on linkedin.

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