Therapy that meets the whole person, not just the problem.

Integrative, person-centred and body-aware

My work draws on person-centred, existential and somatic approaches, adapted to what each client actually needs rather than a single fixed model. Some of what brings people to therapy responds well to being talked through; some of it sits in the body and doesn't move until it's addressed there directly.

I trained in Somatic Experiencing, alongside postgraduate training in person-centred and existential therapy, and I bring all three into the room. I'll talk things through where that helps, and work somatically where the nervous system is holding something that language hasn't reached yet.

Existential therapy

Draws on Irvin Yalom's idea that most human distress connects back to a small set of unavoidable "givens": that we die, that we're free and responsible for our choices, that we're ultimately alone in our experience and that meaning isn't handed to us but has to be built. Rather than treating a symptom in isolation, this approach looks at which of these a person is wrestling with underneath the presenting problem.

Somatic therapy

Works with what's happening in the body (tension, bracing, a racing heart) as well as what's happening in thought, since distress and trauma often live in the nervous system as much as in the mind. This is often especially effective for anxiety, where the body's alarm system can stay switched on even once the thinking mind understands there's no real threat.