Therapies

Gestalt therapy is a relational and experiential approach that brings awareness to how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. It’s a therapy of presence, curiosity and connection. It recognises you as the expert of your own experience. We explore what's happening right here, right now, in your body, emotions, and relationships.

What to expect

The relationship between therapist and client is a space to explore how you connect with others, helping you to develop more authentic ways of being. We work in the here-and-now to bring awareness to what is alive right now and to notice what arises moment to moment—sensations, emotions, thoughts, patterns, behaviours, impressions, reflexes, postures, metaphors.

Through co-created experiments and present-moment awareness, we explore patterns and help you to feel more agency in what you choose.

This helps with:

●      Relationship difficulties and patterns

●      Feeling disconnected from yourself

●      Creative blocks and lost vitality

●      Anxiety

●      Depression

●      Building authentic self- expression

Trauma is not what happened to us. It is what happened inside of us in the absence of a supportive other, care and time to integrate our experience.

Somatic Experiencing recognises that trauma gets trapped in the body when the natural survival responses can't be completed. S-E works with your body's innate capacity to heal, supporting the gentle completion of interrupted fight, flight, or freeze responses and allowing the body to come back into equilibrium.

What to expect

I’ll help you develop awareness of subtle body sensations, working with your nervous system's natural rhythms. Through gentle tracking and small amounts of activation, we support the discharge of trapped survival energy and stress hormones - a drop at a time.

You don't need to re-live traumatic experiences. We work with how trauma shows up in your body right now, and honour those protective and defensive management strategies that once kept you safe.

This helps with:

●      Trauma recovery (shock, developmental and complex)

●      Chronic anxiety and hypervigilance

●      Panic attacks and overwhelming fear

●      Feeling disconnected from your body

●      Sleep difficulties and nervous system dysregulation

●      Physical symptoms without a clear medical cause

EMDR helps your brain process traumatic memories that have become "frozen," reducing their emotional charge and physical impact. Using bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements, or tapping, this approach activates your brain's natural healing processes allowing the brain to integrate the memory with present safety, reducing its emotional charge and transforming it into a more adaptive, coherent form.

What to expect

After building your capacity for self-regulation, we'll work with specific memories using eye movements or gentle tapping (bilateral stimulation). Details of your past trauma do not need to be shared, unless you feel to. I weave EMDR into the therapy where appropriate, always with care taken to uphold a sense of feeling safe as my utmost priority.

This helps with:

●      Specific traumatic incidents

●      PTSD and complex trauma symptoms

●      Disturbing flashbacks or intrusive memories

●      Phobias and intense fears

●      Panic attacks triggered by memories

●      Nightmares related to trauma

This somatic approach addresses trauma that affected the development of your nervous system itself, often from adverse early life experiences. We work with the foundational layers of your system to rebuild your capacity for resilience, regulation, and embodied presence.

What to expect

Through gentle awareness practices, I will guide you to work towards expanding your ability to tolerate sensation and emotion without becoming overwhelmed. When appropriate and with full consent, this may include healing touch to address places where your system learned contact wasn't safe. In an online capacity, it may include me inviting you to use ‘self-touch’, or also bringing my attention or intention towards you.

We'll work together to restore natural regulation, and to develop what we call “somatic capacity”: your ability to tolerate sensation, experience healthy boundaries, feel safe in your skin, and recover from activation without shutting down.

This work is subtle but profound. It supports your nervous system in doing what it was always meant to do: adapt, regulate, and connect with ease and integrity.

This helps with:

●      Developmental trauma and complex PTSD

●      Early attachment wounds

●      Medical trauma from early life

●      Chronic nervous system dysregulation

●      Feeling unsafe in your body or relationships

●      Difficulty with boundaries

●      Chronic fatigue and unexplained symptoms

Gestalt Supervision is a relational practice that draws directly from the heart of Gestalt therapy – phenomenological inquiry, dialogical presence and field-sensitive thinking.  Based on the Relational Matrix Model, I invite you into a supervisory process that is deeply present, contextually rich, ethically grounded and experientially alive.

What to expect

We focus on your immediate, lived experience as a practitioner, as well as your interactions with your clients, by attending to relational patterns that emerge in your client work and between us, using these as valuable information. It is a collaborative and experiential process that supports deepening awareness which enhances clinical practice.

I attune to the shared aesthetic field that emerges between us—how experience takes shape through figure and ground, within the wider relational field, and in the moment-to-moment process of contacting. This helps me notice what is coming into awareness, what recedes, and how we meet each other in that unfolding.