Therapeutic Approach

I am a trauma-informed and trauma-trained therapist and adopt a relational, experiential and process-oriented approach to my therapeutic work. I offer both talk and somatic (body) therapy.

Breaking these approaches down a little more, foundational to all of this is a deep respect and care for you and your lived experience. I am a fellow human with my own lived experience which is weaved into all that I am and do. Out of this, I trust that we can co-create a relationship in which you feel you can show up as you are. I won’t tell you how to live your life. I will guide you to your own inner wisdom and help you hold onto it when life does what life does.

It is well understood in the therapeutic world that the past has a good way of showing up in the present, via relational interactions, emotions, sensations, beliefs, meaning etc. that can occur. The nature of the therapeutic container is such that we can explore, work with, and support these dynamics so that something new and different can emerge. This can be a confusing notion until you have had a lived experience of it. So, if it makes no sense yet, rest assured, it eventually will. As Rumi says, “when you walk out on the way, the way appears”. And it has proven true to me (both personally and professionally) and the folks that I have seen, time and time again throughout this wild and wonderful work.