About me

I have completed a four year Gestalt Psychotherapy course (PG Dip) and I am registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

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I love hearing people’s stories. I’ve always been curious as to the wildly different and varied worlds that people inhabit. I’m driven to explore and understand myself, other people and the world we’re all in.

 

I believe in the possibility of transformation and growth - for individuals, for communities and for society as a whole. What supports growth and wellbeing? What holds people back? Why is it so hard to change, even when you want to?

 

After a significant rupture in my early 20’s I’ve covered a lot of ground, exploring and experimenting within my own life. Meditation and insights from a range of spiritual traditions have supported and fed me on my journey. I use music, dance and free-writing as part of my own support, and I’m happy to work with creative materials that people bring to therapy sessions.

 

I value Gestalt’s focus on the emotions, the body, and the ‘here and now’. Whilst I embrace the world of ideas, books and rationality, I also recognise that staying exclusively in this mode can lead to a dis-embodied, disconnected way of being in the world. Gestalt has encouraged and enabled me to ‘get out of my head’ and to connect with my feelings. I found that my love and my pain were hidden away in the same place, and I've had to work at opening my emotional space whilst allowing difficult emotions from the past to arise. The journey I've been on helps me to support others as they explore, digest and integrate what is present and unfolding in their life.