What to Expect

As a relational psychotherapist I place the therapeutic relationship at the centre of my work, and believe the most profound change occurs in experience, most powerfully in relational experience. I work collaboratively, with an open, down to earth approach, welcoming you, as you, in all your hopes, frustrations, complexities and contradictions. We will work with what needs to be said, at the pace it needs to be said - sometimes in a rush, sometimes shy - and we will notice how it feels to say it.

I know the healing in voicing our thoughts and feelings in this way; being seen and understood; finding permission to say out loud and explore that which feels unspeakable elsewhere; sharing our truth with another and letting our experience live and truly be known. I will really listen, to what is said, what is left unsaid, and to the feelings which inevitably tumble from allowing ourselves to know ourselves differently.

Therapy happens at its own pace, a weekly space which allows time to pause, slow down, and reflect. Everything is in step with you, nothing needs to be hurried. In contrast to the fast paced world, where so much of the pull is towards learning, interpreting and understanding ourselves through technology, AI at everyone's fingertips … I will encourage you to tune into your body, into what you are feeling moment to moment. You will talk and we will notice how that feels.

When we are really in contact with ourselves and another in an embodied way we can interrupt the mind, what has always been known, and step into the thinking body. For even in stillness our body moves and is moved.

We tell our story, with the feelings that arise supported through and in the body, and we settle into ourselves - giving way to the possibility of living in ways which feel more authentic and truthful to us.