Hello, and a warm welcome to my profile.

I am qualified Integrative Yoga Psychotherapist, Clinical Mind & Body Therapist, Breathwork Practitioner and Certified IEMT Practitioner. I offer a collaborative, creative and down-to-earth approach to therapy, grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness and somatic therapy.

My pronouns are she/her; my practice is LGBTQIA+ inclusive, and neurodivergent affirming.

I work with adults of any age, gender and identity presenting with complex trauma, addictions, panic, anxiety, depression, emotional challenges, relational and identity crises, and I have a special interest in working with compulsive sexual behaviours and problematic porn use. ​After completing extensive training on the impact trauma and addictions have on the body, and in the difficulties that may arise from navigating cross- and social class expectations and differences, I am currently undergoing specialist training in the treatment of Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder and Problematic Porn Use (sex and porn addiction).

I am trained in Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy (IYP), a pioneering psychotherapy model (NCIP Level 7) that integrates talking therapy with mindfulness, embodied somatic practices, breathing therapy, and Buddhist wisdom. My practice is IYP at its core, and informed by Humanistic psychotherapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family System (IFS), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Gestalt, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Somatic Trauma Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapy, and Spiritual Counselling.
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My therapeutic style is non-linear and influenced by attachment-based and trauma-informed clinical approaches to therapy. I offer a collaborative approach to therapy tailored to your needs, helping you to make sense of your challenges, whilst also learning practical tools to foster meaningful change. Breath, posture, sensations, and symptoms often carry deeper meanings that enhance insight and foster a growing capacity to hold ourselves with more complexity. This embodied exploration offers grounding and safety to the therapeutic process. 
 
I honour the powerful and unique relationship between mind, body and soul to support you in welcoming a felt sense of joy, self-discovery, curiosity and self-understanding in all aspects of your life through an intuitive and individual blend of talk therapy, embodied somatic practices, breathwork, guided relaxations and active imagery to create a sensitive and interconnected map of both your internal and external worlds.

​This means that I am able to include:
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• Talking therapy to focus on developing the capacity of your **mind **to manage challenging internal chats, experiences, and beliefs. While this approach can be very useful, most times you can't think your way out of the problem, especially if it is rooted in trauma;
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• Somatic body-based therapy to focus on processing how your **body **holds these difficult internal chats, and offer regulation tools such as breathing or grounding techniques. Enriched by a solid foundation of medical principles, behavioural science and evidence-based practices, this approach can be extremely powerful in bringing compassionate curiosity around the body and shifting deep emotions or self-beliefs, by way of re-balancing a nervous system that may have become dysregulated for example (anxiety, panic, hypervigilance, insomnia, IBS, chronic fatigue, to name a few symptoms);
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• Contextual and systemic approaches to therapy, as relevant to you as an individual in the context of your wider systems, to see how your relationships, the institutions you are part of, and your wider **environment **may affect your experience.

Whether you prefer talking therapy, or are curious about my holistic mind/body approach, we will always move at a suitable pace for you to cultivate safety, develop agency and self-growth. Throughout the process, I will listen and work with you along the way. This means that we may engage in talking therapy only, or some sessions may include a bit of movement - posture shift, subtle somatic changes, shaking, tapping, bringing awareness to the body and connecting how words we speak are felt in the body, making sense and befriending emotional response. Other times perhaps all you need may be mindfulness, deep relaxation or breathwork.

As an integrative therapist, I use all my training and expertise to help you live in a more conscious and embodied way, to get to the root of your problems, and not just manage the symptoms.

If you would like to find out how we can work together, get in touch or visit my website for more insight into my practice.

You will be welcome here just as you are.