My Approach
CREATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
I offer a safe and non-judgemental space where you can explore issues at your own pace. My approach is grounded in creative and embodied reflective dialogue and, when helpful, may include creative media as ways of exploring inner experience. We may also draw on mindfulness and breathing practices to support grounding and awareness.
Each psychotherapeutic journey is unique and guided by your experience.
There is time to slow down, feel and notice experiences as they emerge. I work relationally and collaboratively, in a culturally sensitive way and at a pace that feels supportive.
Much of our experience is shaped by feelings and patterns that lie outside our conscious awareness. I work with spoken language, images, symbols, dreams, the body and movement as portals to the inner world and as ways of listening to the unconscious and the meanings it may be expressing.
Bringing body, mind, feelings and imagination into dialogue can nurture connection, integration and healing. This may include reflection, embodied experience and creative exploration, attending to meaning and the symbolic dimension of experience in ways that feel right for you.
Together, we become curious about the different parts of yourself and make space for the multiplicity of your inner experience. Some parts may hold protective ways of coping, old wounds or longings that have remained unheard. We consider what they carry and what they may reveal about your inner world, while also exploring underlying patterns, emotional roots and unconscious dynamics with curiosity and compassion.
This can support greater self-awareness and a deeper understanding of yourself. It can also open new ways of relating to yourself, others and the world, fostering meaningful and positive change.
I work in a relational, creative and embodied way, drawing on relational psychoanalytic thinking, Jungian psychology and humanistic, somatic and arts therapy principles. My approach is also informed by practices such as mindfulness, breathwork, Focusing, and Authentic Movement, supporting deeper listening and the connection between mind, body and soul.
"The body is merely the visibility of the soul, the psyche; and the soul is the psychological experience of the body.
So it is really one and the same thing."
Carl G. Jung
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
Authentic Movement is a contemplative movement practice which has evolved within the field of dance movement therapy and been influenced by Jungian Psychology and mindfulness meditation practice. As in the discipline of mindfulness meditation, we seek to pay attention to our direct experience, moment by moment, witnessing the sensations, feelings, thoughts, images and movement impulses which arise into consciousness.