About Me

• Survivors of sexual abuse.

• People with problems related to traumatic experiences in childhood, such as abandonment, neglect, illness and loss.

• Adults who find it difficult to form and maintain relationships, for example, with issues around divorce, domestic violence, depression, anxiety or anger management.
• Clients who struggle in a stressful workplace, which can result in physical and mental fatigue.
• People who are suicidal, who may have identity issues or unprocessed traumatic memories.
• Clients who feel their life has become meaningless and lacking in purpose.
• Parents who have difficulties parenting their children, who are experiencing chaos or rigidity in their daily lives.
• Those experiencing pain and medically unexplained symptoms.
• People going through panic attacks and performance anxiety.

Working clinically since 1995 my theoretical approach has evolved due to a variety of influences, and trainings. I have developed an Integrative approach which focuses attention on how an individual’s early life experiences can have a profound impact on their social as well as emotional development.

How a person’s well being can be constricted and stunted by neglectful or inadequate parenting, which influences their ways of thinking and perceiving the world throughout adulthood. The impact of unprocessed traumatic and overwhelming life events can be so easily blocked off (dissociation) from awareness and can surface much later in adulthood in some surprising ways.

Somatic illnesses, such as migraines, low back pain, fibromyalgia, bowel problems etc. can be associated with early experiences of loss, abuse, neglect and abandonment.

I have therefore integrated an EMDR model of therapy which addresses the PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE within an Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) framework which addresses how trauma becomes an embodied experience, and needs to be worked through the body in order to be released and eventually reintegrated in a more adaptive and healthier way.

The models of therapy that still inform my practice are based around the Humanistic, Sensorimotor, relational psychoanalytic and Ego State models.

I hope to keep adjusting and adapting my practice according to the needs of each client and informed by my ongoing professional development.