Coming home to yourself

 

At the heart of my work is a simple belief.

 

We have an extraordinary capacity for healing, adaptation and growth. Much of the time this happens naturally: experiences are processed, integrated and become part of our story without continuing to overwhelm us.

 

Sometimes, particularly after trauma or prolonged stress, that process can become interrupted. Experiences can remain unresolved — held not only in memory, but in patterns of emotion, relationship, bodily response and the nervous system.

 

Therapy can help those processes begin moving again.

 

Different approaches enter through different doors. Psychotherapy may begin with relationship, thought and meaning. Somatic work pays particular attention to the body and nervous system. EMDR offers another way of helping experiences that remain unresolved to be processed and integrated.

I don't see my role as fixing you or turning you into someone different. My work is to help create the conditions in which your own capacity for healing and integration can become available again.

This is what I mean by coming home to yourself.

 

How I came to this work

I've always been fascinated by people — how we make sense of our lives, what shapes us and what helps us change.

 

Before becoming a psychotherapist, I spent many years working internationally in leadership, coaching and organisational development. I worked with individuals, groups and organisations, often alongside people carrying significant responsibility and navigating complex change.

 

That experience still informs my work today. I understand something of the pressures of professional and organisational life, and of what it can cost to be the person who is expected to cope.

 

My therapeutic training began with Psychosynthesis and has developed through specialist study of trauma, somatic approaches and, more recently, EMDR.

 

These approaches give us different ways into the therapeutic process — through relationship and meaning, through the body and nervous system, and through working with experiences that may remain unresolved despite our best efforts to understand them.

 

What connects them is my trust in our capacity to heal and integrate when the right conditions are present.

 

My professional background

II am a BACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist with ten years' experience as a therapist. Before this, I spent eighteen years working internationally in coaching, leadership and organisational development, alongside individuals and groups navigating significant responsibility, complexity and change.

 

I work with adults in person from my private practice in rural Mid Devon and online across the UK.

 

I undertake regular clinical supervision and ongoing professional development in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework.

 

Qualifications & training

• BACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist

• Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling

• Postgraduate Certificate in the Arts in Therapy and Education

• MA in Management Learning

• Specialist trauma therapy training

• Somatic approaches to trauma

• EMDR training

• Equine-assisted practitioner

• Accredited Member of AAHEP

 

The world that nourishes me

Outside my professional life, you'll usually find me with my horses, walking my dogs or somewhere in the landscape around our smallholding in rural Devon.

 

My relationship with the natural world and with other animals is an important part of my own life and has shaped the way I think about relationship, presence and what it means to flourish.

 

I feel privileged to accompany people for a part of their journey — not towards becoming someone else, but towards living with greater freedom, connection and choice.

Coming home to yourself.