Individual Sessions

I work online, offering sessions of various lengths and at intervals which feel right for you. The space I hold is informed by my training in Gestalt Therapy and Internal Family Systems as well as my background in Music, Dance/Movement and Somatic therapies. I also have a strong interest in the subject of Trauma as well as the healing potential of nature.

Above all though, I believe that being in a human-held safe space, a place to be vulnerable, courageous and yourself, is the most healing thing of all and can never be replaced – only enhanced – by techniques and theories. I strive to collect such tools, but most of all, to show up as myself in this space, offering genuine and heartfelt resonance from one human to another.

What is Gestalt?

Gestalt is about experiencing yourself as the organic, flowing whole that you are. A whole made up of many parts which ideally work together, letting us feel at one with ourselves and in creative relationship with our surroundings. When our inner parts conflict, we feel split; our personality gets “highjacked” by wounded parts and we feel out of control. Each conflicting part needs to be seen, heard and learn to work as a whole again.

This can mean anything from grieving an ending to move on, acknowledging and expressing anger and unmet needs and working out how to have these met as an adult, building up trust to allow shame-filled corners of ourselves to see the light and find self-acceptance and -love, or learning how we block ourselves instead of shining.

By journeying to the heart of the matter, we find the inner knots and let them unwind organically, revealing clarity, energy and confidence where it seemed like there was a dead-end.

How does it work?

As if by magic, because it’s a returning to our natural state: by slowing down, paying attention to the body, and giving breathing space to the emotional process which is always waiting for attention just beneath the surface. Often, after sometimes avoiding it for years, what we discover there simply needs to be integrated – felt, expressed, seen, loved – leaving us with a clearer path forward.

To enable this, my aim is to offer empathic, challenging and honest support to journey together to the heart of the matter, guiding, witnessing and catalysing integration in a rich variety of ways which includes but also goes beyond words, with the possibility of moving, singing, crafting, drumming, drawing what can’t yet be spoken.

What is IFS?

IFS – Internal Family Systems – is a way of coming home to your calm, compassionate, creative Self which each one of us has at our core. By becoming aware of the ‘parts’ we have developed to hold or protect us from painful experiences we have had, we can gently separate off our reactions to pain from our core Self, enabling a loving relationship between the two. Parts can receive the compassion and recognition they deserve, often very heavily burdened by all the hard work they do, and relax into their rightful place in our internal system. Burdensome feelings, experiences and beliefs that we hold in our systems, often legacies from previous generations, can be examined in the light of consciousness, processed, and let go of – to make space for something more you, or more true.