I offer you a safe, confidential therapeutic space in which to explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
In this space, we work collaboratively to find deeper understandings of your situation. I draw on a range of psychotherapeutic approaches to offer you support that is tailored to your needs. This includes an approach of my own design: Connected State Therapy; as well as Humanistic Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, and practical coaching techniques.One-to-One Psychotherapy
For individuals who wish to bring about deep transformation in a safe and gentle way.
Central to my approach to psychotherapy is attention to your internal state. I call this approach Connected State Therapy.
I use mindfulness techniques, sound immersions, and somatic tools to bring about changes in your neurology and nervous system function.
This soft, self-connected state supports rich personal exploration, and lends us access to work on the subconscious level. By working with talking therapy on the subconscious level, we can identify, interrupt, and reprogram the adaptations, core beliefs, and deeply ingrained neural pathways that constitute the way we experience and interact with the world.
This approach may be supportive to you if you experience:
- Anxiety or stress
- Depression
- Low confidence
- Unprocessed or historical trauma, or PTSD
- Overwhelm
- A general feeling of “stuckness”
- Relationship difficulties
- Creativity blocks
- Sleep difficulties or disorders
- Chronic pain
- Dementia or neurological issues
Or indeed if you are simply curious to explore and grow.
This approach is gentle, safe, trauma informed, and appropriate for all ages.
I have developed a particular protocol for working with children who suffer from anxiety. Please get in touch to discuss.
Is Psychotherapy For Me?
Working with a skilled psychotherapist is one of the most empowering things you can do.
For many, the hardest part is taking that first step of booking in and attending the first appointment. This may be due to some common misunderstandings about what therapy is, as well as the sense that it represents a jump into the unknown. If this resonates with you, please be assured that in the course of that first appointment, all preconceptions will be shed and you will wonder why you didn’t begin sooner.
Psychotherapy is a process of liberation. I provide you with a safe, confidential, judgement-free space in which you can express and explore the themes, events, and dynamics in your life. Collaboratively, we identify and work through areas of your life and experience where awareness, processing, or change would increase your sense of presence, happiness, fulfillment, peace, positive interactions, and positive experiences.
This is something that everybody can benefit from, in any circumstance, at any stage of life.
Gong Meditation
Joining a ReShape gong bath will make available to you a deeply relaxed, meditative state. Many people find it difficult to meditate, but in the course of this gong bath, the process of the evening and the sound of the gong will take you there.
Your brainwaves will drop into Theta frequency (4-7.5Hz) – this is the realm of your subconscious mind. These waves are present during deep meditation and light sleep, including the REM dream state. They offer a sense of deep spiritual connection and oneness with the Universe.
You may then drop deeper into Delta frequency (0.5-4Hz) – the realm of your unconscious mind. These are the slowest brain waves and are present in deep, dreamless sleep and in very deep meditation where awareness is completely detached. Delta is associated with deep healing and regeneration.
So without any effort on your behalf (other than presence and willingness) and before you know it, you will have spent an extended period in deep meditation. There are countless benefits to be sought from having spent time in this state – to summarise in short, a better functioning body and mind.
Sound/Vibrational Therapy
There is nothing solid in the universe, just tiny pockets of vibrating energy – atoms. Vibration is the substance of creation. When all of the molocules that comprise our body vibrate freely at their optimum frequencies, our body is in harmony and energy flows. We flow. When vibrational energy is disrupted – due to stress, illness, inflammation, electro-magnetic radiation or other factors – energy blockages arise and things become much harder for us physically and mentally. Entrainment is the process by which a frequency will cause another to gradually to fall into synchrony with it. By setting the right conditions and working with vibrations – the sound of the gong – we can bring your body back into resonance and harmony. Anyone interested in “energy” will appreciate the gong as a powerful instrument of multidimensional change.
Sound Journeying
Having your attention drawn to sound for an extended period of time declutters the mind, clears emotional blockages, and helps alleviate physical aches and pains. But there is more to the sound journey than that. We have a deeply intimate experience with sound – it is the first sense we experience, long before the others, in our mother’s womb. The comforting low beating of the heart, and the soothing vibrations from murmering voices. So the third way in which our gong baths create connection, grounding, and movement in you is through the rich and focused sound experience itself.
What Do Clients Say?
Psychotherapy is a deeply personal experience and it’s best to come with presence, free from expectation. However, to give you a flavour of the kind of feedback I receive, here are some reflections that clients have chosen to share publicly (please know that everything is confidential unless you specifically state otherwise)
Book Your Appointment
Here you can engage with a live diary and book yourself an appointment for talking therapies. You will receive a confirmation email upon booking. Please note that appointments are only confirmed upon receipt of the payment.
