My Approach
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I work relationally noticing what is going on between us “live” in the therapy room in the “here and now', offering an opportunity for insight into recurring behaviours and relational patterns, enhancing present moment awareness, embodied experiences and connection to your environment.​​
I see you as a unique individual with an innate drive to reach your own potential with the capacity for growth, self awareness and fulfilment. I believe therapy is finding a way home to oneself.
The way we talk to ourselves and relate to others can have a significant impact on our experience of ourselves, our lives and our world. Together we can explore where your beliefs and ways of thinking come from and what the fears and needs are behind these. I support and guide you on your journey of self exploration and discovery working towards your personal goals.
I may bring a playfulness with creative experiments offering you insight, perspective and patterns into your awareness, acknowledging their protective nature and wisdom.
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Mind, Body, and Environment
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My work is rooted in the belief that the body and mind are inseparable. Drawing from my background as a bodyworker I help you listen not just to your thoughts, but to your body's innate wisdom, observing your physical sensations and emotions and how you express yourself through the language of your body.
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By bringing the body, mind and soul into integration, it’s possible to dissolve old stories, bring glimmers of grounding resources and open a portal to embodied growth. ​​​
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I work both inside and outside the therapy room recognising the interdependence of everything that exists. I foster embodiment as a central axis of our existence and believe this process builds on safety and trust for growth to metabolise. I may offer to explore through nature the realities that are much bigger than we are, deepening perspectives through a larger ecological awareness taking the field wider, to discover your relationship with your existence and explore meaning into your life.
About me
I trained and qualified as a Humanistic Counsellor and Psychotherapist with Homa London, with 744 hours of face to face training, a course deeply rooted in the practice of social justice. I am an individual member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists and as such abide by their Ethical Framework. I am currently in the process of becoming a registered member.
As part of my training I worked as a volunteer counsellor at St Peter and St James' Hospice in Sussex working with the, bereaved, carers and those with life limiting illness.
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I have over 30 years experience as a movement teacher, bodyworker and an ex professional dancer. I am a Polestar Pilates comprehensive practitioner and director of my own V Pilates Studio, a bespoke integrative holistic studio using the specialist equipment. I am also an educator in training and experienced mentor to Polestar Pilates students and graduates on the teacher training programmes. Find out more about V Pilates Studio here ​
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I engage in regular supervision as a psychotherapist and a lifelong learner continually developing my personal and professional skills. I am committed to providing an anti-discriminatory service and strive to ensure that this practice is present in all our work together. By continually and actively working on my own unconscious bias and prejudices I remain aware that they exist and how they could get in the way of a strong therapeutic relationship. ​By staying conscious to the dynamics of power and privilege I nurture a therapeutic culture that is ethical, inclusive, embodied and alive to the world we share.
