This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
"Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds." Gabor Mate.
Hi, I am a Holistic Psychotherapist, specialising in Trauma Recovery. My approach weaves talk therapy and cutting edge somatic therapies along with nervous system awareness and Internal Family Systems to facilitate a healing space. My intention is to walk along side you on your journey, to bear witness to the complex experiences that you have encountered, to support the processing and integration of these experiences and to understand and support you in working towards your goals.
My original training was an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and I have gone on to undertake additional trainings in cutting edge trauma modalities that include Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, Neuroaffective touch and Craniosacral Biodynamics. All these modalities inform what I offer in sessions, and are intuitively tailored to what will most support you in any given moment.
Alongside Private Practise I work as a Trauma Therapist for Khiron Clinics who are a specialist trauma clinic offering ground breaking therapy in trauma recovery.
“Working through trauma can teach us so much wisdom and can reveal the beauty of our existence that, because of trauma, we had lost sight of." Gabor Mate.
As a Trauma Informed Therapist and fellow traveller on the path of healing, I am accutely aware of the complexity of feelings and defense mechanisms that play out within us. My hope is to offer a truly non judgemental space where we can meet what you are encountering in the present moment and explore and digest the past experiences that you carry. You don't need to explicitly remember these past experiences for us to work with them. They are showing up in the present and shaping your current reality. As JL Moreno says 'The body remebers what the mind forgets'.
Please do reach out if you need support. I know that recovering from Trauma can feel deeply overwhelming, and it's hard to know where to start or what modality to go for. The witnessing of an empathic, attuned other was often the thing that was missing at the time of the overwhelming experience (trauma) and this is what healing often requires - to be truly met and witnessed. Traumatic wounding more often than not occured in relationship and it's in relationship that it often needs to be healed (scray as that is).
Doing the complex but life giving work of healing from personal and generational trauma can create a felt sense of internal safety, freeing up stuck energy and allowing for fresh insight and choices to emerge, allowing you to feel more present in the here and now and to experience more connection with yourself and others and to live more in tune with your deeper self and values.
“Trauma fundamentally means a disconnection from self. Why do we get disconnected? Because it is too painful to be ourselves.” Gabor Mate.
I offer 55 minute sessions in person in Poole or online via Zoom. I also run trauma informed groups so reach out if you’re interested in group work. I offer a 15 minute free initial phone or zoom call where we can meet each other, I can answer any questions and we can see if we are a good fit to work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Somatic Experiencing, Level two, SE Greece, 2024
- Somatic Experiencing, Level one, SE Greece, 2023
- Somatic Experiencing Introduction - SOS Internationale - 2022
- Internal Family Systems for Trauma, Dr Richard Schwartz and Dr Frank Anderson, Pesi, 2023
- Internal Family Systems Introduction - IFS UK - 2023
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level one, Sensorimotor Institute, 80 hours, 2022
- Polyvagal Theory Training, Deb Dana as supervisor and trainer, 2021 - 2024
- Polyvagal Informed Therapy, Master Class, Deb Dana, Stephen Porges, 2022
- Complex Trauma Certification Training, Level 1 & 2, Janina Fisher, Pesi, 2021
- Structural Disassociation, Janina Fisher as supervisor and trainer, 2021 - ongoing
- Safe & Sound Protocol, Steven Porges, 2022
- Reiki, level one, 2022
- MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Roehampton University, 2014-2017
- Yoga Teacher Training, 200 hours, Sivananda, 2012
- International and Global Sociology, Post graduate diploma, Edinburgh University, 2010-2011
- BA Hons in Dance, Edinburgh's Telford College, 2004-2007
- I have a personal meditation and dance practice which deeply informs all my work.
Member organisations
ADMP UK is the professional organisation for the profession for Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the United Kingdom.
They aim to support the development of DMP in the UK and internationally; foster communication among Dance Movement Psychotherapists (DMPs); and promote the use of DMP throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
Free initial telephone session
