My approach draws from a range of evidence-informed therapeutic modalities, thoughtfully and collaboratively integrated to meet your individual needs with care.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting is a gentle, brain-body based therapy that supports healing by working with the connection between the body, emotions, survival responses, memory, and attachment. Grounded in the understanding that “where you look affects how you feel,” Brainspotting uses specific points within the visual field, together with mindful attention to present-moment experience, to help us notice and connect with what may be held within the body and emotions, sometimes beyond what words can express. In a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship, we can gently listen to experiences that may feel stuck or unresolved and allow the brain and body to process them in their own time. The process is collaborative and honours each person’s unique system. As new experiences become possible, greater flexibility, connection, and capacity can emerge, not only in how we understand ourselves, but in how we feel, respond, and move through the world.
Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), often known as “tapping,” is a gentle, body-based approach that combines mindful attention with light tapping on specific acupressure points. It offers a way to slow down and gently connect with what you are experiencing, whether that is an emotion, memory, thought, body sensation, or something that feels difficult to put into words. The intention is not to force an experience to change, but to create space to be with experience in a way that feels manageable and supported. With careful pacing, EFT can support the processing of experiences that continue to carry emotional or physiological charge, including trauma, grief, anxiety, shame, phobias, and patterns that may feel difficult to shift. As we listen to what arises, new perspectives, feelings, and possibilities can emerge, supporting greater ease, choice, clarity, and compassion. In this way, clinical EFT brings together emotional and embodied experience, supporting greater capacity to be with ourselves through moments of activation, discomfort, and change. It can also provide a practical way for clients to continue developing this capacity beyond the therapy room.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers a compassionate way of understanding the different thoughts, feelings, impulses, and ways of responding that can arise within us. At times, one part of us may want to move forward while another feels afraid, another becomes critical or protective, and another carries hurt from earlier experiences. Rather than seeing these inner responses as problems to overcome, we can become curious about what each part may be trying to protect, express, or help us manage. Through gentle, collaborative attention, parts work can create space for greater understanding, self-compassion, and inner connection, helping us relate to ourselves with more choice and ease.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Clinical Hypnotherapy is a collaborative, experiential process that uses focused attention, imagination, and guided awareness to connect with aspects of experience that may be less accessible through the thinking mind alone. In this receptive state, clients remain fully in control while connecting with inner resources, emotions, beliefs, bodily experiences, and patterns that may be influencing their lives. My approach to clinical hypnosis is trauma-sensitive and informed by our growing understanding of memory, learning, and the mind–body connection. Hypnotherapy can support new perspectives and possibilities by working with both conscious and less-conscious processes, offering a gentle and often deeply meaningful way to strengthen self-understanding, cultivate greater choice and self-compassion, and reconnect with capacities and wisdom that are already within.
Dreamwork
Experiential dreamwork invites us to engage with dreams as meaningful expressions of our inner experience, bringing together imagery, emotion, sensation, imagination, and forms of knowing that may not always be accessible through words alone. Rather than focusing on interpretation or trying to determine what a dream “means,” we can slow down and enter into relationship with the dream, noticing what emerges as we connect with its images, feelings, symbols, and felt sense. This can include working with remembered dreams, recurring dreams, fragments, or nightmares, without needing to reconstruct or relive a difficult experience. We might revisit an image, allow a dream to unfold in a new direction, or dream the dream forward, giving space for imagination and new possibilities to emerge. Through a curious and compassionate process, dreamwork can support deeper self-understanding, integration, and connection with aspects of ourselves that may be seeking attention, expression, or greater awareness.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy recognizes that our experiences are lived not only through thoughts and words, but through the body, emotions, sensations, and patterns of physiological response. Our bodies and brains are continually adapting to our relationships, circumstances, and environments, and experiences of stress or trauma can shape how we move through the world long after the original circumstances have passed. Through gentle attention to sensation, movement, breath, emotion, impulses, and shifts in activation and settling, somatic therapy invites us to become more attuned to what our bodies may be communicating. Rather than trying to override or fix these responses, we can learn to be with them with greater curiosity, compassion, and choice. Over time, this can support greater integration, flexibility, connection, and a deeper sense of trust in ourselves and our embodied experience.
Unifying themes
The following core values are woven through all the modalites I use in therapy and shape how we work together:
Our brains and bodies are continually working to keep us safe, adapting to the demands of our lives and relationships. My work is informed by neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, survival physiology, memory reconsolidation, and polyvagal theory, with an understanding that our survival responses are not simply individual or internal. They are also shaped through relationship, development, culture, context, and the worlds we have inherited. What once helped us adapt or protect ourselves may continue to influence how we experience our bodies, emotions, relationships, and sense of safety today. Rather than viewing these responses as problems to eliminate, I approach them with appreciation and understanding that everything makes sense in context. Together, we consider what the survival responses may be communicating and what they have been trying to accomplish. From this perspective, healing can involve creating new experiences of sufficient safety, connection, choice, and possibility, allowing the brain and body to update their expectations and respond with greater flexibility.
Creativity can be a powerful pathway to healing, especially when words alone don’t quite capture what you’re experiencing. Through imagination, metaphor, imagery, dreams, expressive practices, and other creative approaches, we can access different ways of knowing and relating to your experience. Creativity can open space for curiosity, possibility, and new perspectives, allowing something that has felt stuck or difficult to articulate to become more visible, meaningful, or alive. There is no need to consider yourself “creative.” This work is simply an invitation to discover what becomes possible when we allow more than words into the therapeutic process.
Experiential psychotherapy is based on the understanding that lasting change often happens through experience rather than insight alone. The emotional brain learns through experience, association, and repetition. Experiential therapy invites us to slow down and notice what is happening in the present moment within your body, emotions, relationships, imagery, and inner experience. While talking can be helpful, many emotional patterns are rooted in deeper parts of the brain and nervous system that are not always accessible through thinking or analysis. Within a collaborative and attuned therapeutic relationship, we can become curious about what arises and move toward new ways of experiencing and responding. Through this process, insight can become embodied, and new experiences of sufficient safety, choice, connection, and possibility can begin to take root.
Compassion offers a different way of meeting the parts of ourselves that are hurting, struggling, or protecting us. It invites curiosity, understanding, and kind intention instead of critique. Compassion does not mean ignoring pain or avoiding change; rather it creates the safety and courage needed to turn toward what is difficult. Over time, developing a more compassionate relationship with yourself can support greater emotional flexibility, resilience, integration, and ease.
Mindful awareness invites us to slow down enough to notice what is happening in the present moment, without immediately needing to change or explain it. We may notice sensations, emotions, thoughts, impulses, images, or shifts in our inner experience with curiosity rather than judgment, opening an opportunity to come into relationship with our experience. This kind of awareness can create a little more space between an experience and our response to it, helping us recognize patterns, listen more closely to ourselves, and develop greater choice in how we move through life.
Not everything we know can be put into words. Our bodies, emotions, relationships, images, sensations, and intuitive responses can carry information shaped by experiences we may not consciously remember or understand. Therapy can create space to listen to this implicit knowing with curiosity and care, while remaining grounded in reflection and discernment. By bringing these less conscious ways of knowing into awareness, we can sometimes develop a deeper sense of coherence and a fuller understanding of ourselves.
Our psychological and physiological experiences are deeply interconnected. Stress, trauma, relationships, thoughts, emotions, and life experiences can all influence how we experience our bodies. And, in turn, our bodily states can shape how we think, feel, and relate. Embodied approaches bring attention to this ongoing conversation, helping us notice sensations, physiological responses, patterns of activation and settling, and the body’s signals of safety or protection. By bringing together psychological and embodied experience, therapy can support greater integration, regulation, and ease.
Alongside emotional, relational, and embodied healing, many people find themselves reflecting on deeper questions of meaning, purpose, connection, belonging, and what gives life significance. I view spirituality as a deeply personal dimension of experience that can take many forms, including faith, connection with nature, creativity, relationships, inner wisdom, contemplative practices, cultural traditions, ritual, mystery, or a sense of connection to something greater than oneself. Within experiences of spirituality, there can also be pain or wounding, particularly when beliefs, communities, or experiences have involved shame, fear, exclusion, loss, or a violation of trust. When spirituality is meaningful to you, it is welcome in our work together and will be approached with curiosity, humility, and respect for your unique beliefs, values, and lived experience. My role is not to impose a particular belief system, but to create space for your spiritual questions, experiences, wounds, sources of meaning, and ways of connecting to be honoured.
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