I originally trained as an integrative arts psychotherapist, so there is an opportunity for you to work with art and creativity within the sessions. This may include sandtray work, painting, drawing, using postcards and bodywork or using metaphor or images real or imagined. Working creatively can be especially helpful, when you may be feeling stuck, or words seem to limit expression, rather than bring greater insight. 

My work as a therapist is informed by many different approaches/theories which enables a more tailored fit for you, according to what you would like to bring and are wanting to work on. I draw from many psychotherapeutic theories such as humanistic, existential, attachment and psychodynamic. 

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Primarily I see the therapeutic space as an alternative to what we may usually encounter in relationships in the wider world. It is an opportunity to seek authentic connection and honest conversation, with a dedicated listener, and to be held with compassion and curiosity. The space is for you, the client, to bring whatever troubles you, but also a space to learn about what also inspires and excites you. Your whole self is very welcome, in all its messy and misunderstood parts. Sometimes the process may be about reclaiming lost and buried parts of yourself, and sometimes it is building a new narrative, or bringing to life an unrealised part you have not known fully before. Therefore I often see therapy as the process of unlearning, unhelpful narrative, beliefs and voices, that we may have internalised that no longer serve us, and finding ways to bring to the surface new narratives and beliefs. 

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A Little About Me

 

In the last ten years I have been exploring and getting to know my own neurodivergence; I self-identify as AuDHD, which has taken much of my work in this direction, so I tend to now work mainly with neurodiverse clients. I am committed to unlearning any shame that you may have encountered about your neurodivergence and giving yourself permission to live their truest versions of themselves. This will look and feel different to everyone.

And, if you are coming as a client who is not neurodiverse, then we may look at what may have kept you smaller in life than you needed to be?

 

I am passionate about social justice issues and hold in mind how this may show up in the therapeutic space and affect your life as a client in the outside in world. I am committed to learning about anti-racist and anti-colonialist ways of working and listening and learning from my client's expereinces who have a culturally different background than myself. Therefore, I won't shy away from talking about politics in the therapy room! I really strive to be a safe person for all identities, races, religions and cultures, and am particularly interested in people's subjective experience primarily of how they identify with themselves and their communities.

 

I do prefer working long term with clients as I like to give time for the therapy process to unfold and deepen, but I am able to offer short term therapy sessions too, all with regular reviews to see how the client is feeling about our work together, I am very open to feedback and will use the therapeutic relationship that is built as a bedrock of the work.