My Approach
I offer a safe and non-judgemental space where you can explore issues through talking or a more imaginative and symbolic approach using creative mediums. We can also use mindfulness and breathing exercises.
Each journey of exploration is unique.
I take a creative and embodied approach to psychotherapy, drawing on relational psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, Jungian, humanistic and creative arts therapy principles. Recognising the mind-body connection, my work is also informed by somatic psychology and the practice and study of mindfulness meditation, breathwork and authentic movement.
"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
The body is the home of feeling and often serves as a barometer for our emotional state.
The body and artistic mediums are gateways to the inner world, providing a means to access unconscious material.
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Working therapeutically with the arts can foster creative ways of expressing and exploring personal issues and experiences.
I work with language, symbols, images, dreams, and the body as expressions of the inner world and the unconscious to facilitate deeper understanding and create meaning.
I believe that integrating the body, emotions, mind and reflection can foster a sense of connection, wholeness and healing.
I also consider the therapeutic relationship to be at the core of psychotherapeutic work, where we co-create a sense of meaning and transformation can take place.
Through a creative, relational, introspective, and self-reflective approach, I will work with you to deepen self-awareness, explore unconscious patterns, and foster insight, change and growth.
THERAPY WITH CHILDREN
In my sessions, creative arts, play, and metaphor serve as therapeutic mediums through which children can explore and express their feelings, thoughts, and issues. Creative arts therapy can support the child's psychological and emotional growth, fostering resilience and self-confidence.
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. The verbal expression bridges the non-verbal experience to consciousness.