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 contemporary relational psychoanalytic thinking, Jungian psychology, drama movement therapy, and humanistic and somatic perspectives. 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
DRAMA & MOVEMENT THERAPY (SESAME)
Drama and movement therapy is an approach to dramatherapy, which is a form of psychotherapy that brings together psychological exploration with the creative and embodied languages of drama and movement.
The Sesame approach in drama and movement therapy is deeply informed by Jungian psychology and humanistic principles. It is grounded in a mythopoetic understanding of the psyche, recognising that the multiplicity of inner life, including unconscious experience, may be explored and expressed through story, imagination, metaphor, play, role and movement.
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT
Authentic Movement is a contemplative movement practice that evolved within the field of dance movement therapy and has been influenced by Jungian psychology and mindfulness meditation. The practice involves attending closely to direct experience, moment by moment, witnessing the sensations, feelings, thoughts, images and movement impulses that arise into consciousness.
