Talk-based counselling and therapy from a holistic strengths and growth perspective aimed at helping you to work through personal difficulties or challenging life circumstances as well as identifying, understanding and working to shift unhelpful or limiting beliefs that may be contributing to personal suffering and psychological symptoms.

Using somatic and embodied processes to help identify and integrate emotional responses, to help activate the parasympathetic response and to help shift habitual emotional reactivity or holding. Working with gentle body awareness and exploration processes as well as expressive movement and vocalisation practices can be an incredibly powerful tools for self-discovery, emotional release and integration.

I draw on mindfulness, guided visualisation and active imagination processes as  tools of self-discovery, self-resourcing and healing. These processes are used safely and gently to help you to access wisdom and insights from your subconscious, shadow material that is longing to be acknowledged & integrated as well as to recover and integrate spiritual and personal resources that you can draw on in your journey forwards. These processes can also be used to explore and gather deep insights into the self, specific issues, relationships or dreams.

Inner parts work, also known as Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a therapeutic approach that acknowledges that we all have different aspects of our selves (inner parts), some more prominent and familiar to us than others. When we ‘split off’ from or disown some aspects of ourselves (perhaps through trauma, shame, guilt or non-acceptance of those parts by our family of origin) we become imbalanced – those disowned, repressed or split off parts will begin to call more and more loudly for our attention and acknowledgment. This might take the form of physiological or psychological symptoms, or a general sense of chaos or imbalance in our lives and relationships. Only when we become conscious of our inner parts and begin to accept and re-integrate those parts of us that carry our wounding and trauma, can we achieve a sense of internal harmony, balance and wholeness.

In the spirit of self-discovery, my ‘Stepping Stones’ approach to counselling and mentoring will help you to identify your strengths, passions and purpose as well as any blocks and self-defeating patterns that might be coming between you and the changes you’re wanting to bring about in your life. I will support you to understand and shift personal blocks and limiting beliefs with compassion and accountability as you set and work towards meaningful life goals and behaviour change.

I draw on creative, colour and art therapy practices to support emotional processing, integration and release, as well as for facilitating self-discovery and accessing the powerful emotional, intuitive and cognitive insights that arise from somatic mindfulness, active imagination and other depth processes. I work with a range of creative techniques including colour therapy, symbol and archetype work, expressive therapy and personal myth and ritual work.

Using Jungian and depth approaches to help you harvest the rich insights, wisdom and communications from your unconscious offered to you through your dreaming world.