I don’t use a one-size-fits-all therapeutic approach. How we work together depends on where you are, what you’re carrying, and what feels right for you.

Here's what working with me as a psychologist actually looks like once you're in the room. There's no fixed program, no script I run everyone through. How we work together depends on where you actually are, what you're carrying, and what feels right for you and not on a category you've been sorted into. 

First, we help your system settle 

We usually start here, with what's often called nervous system regulation. Not because it's a warm-up before the "real" work but because a nervous system that's been under strain for a long time can't do much else until it's given room to settle. This might mean noticing unhelpful thought patterns, learning to actually sit with a hard emotion instead of pushing it away, or simply slowing down enough to hear what your body's been trying to tell you the whole time. Here, I draw on approaches like ACT, CBT, and psychoeducation. 

Then, if it feels right, we can go deeper 

There's no timeline attached to this and no pressure toward it either. When it feels right, we start exploring where your patterns actually came from and what they were once trying to solve. Almost everything that looks like a psychological problem started as an attempt, at the time, to cope with something difficult. Once you can see that clearly, your relationship to it starts to shift, before anything else does. You're not just managing symptoms anymore. You start to understand the intelligence behind your own stuckness and from there, other ways of being become possible. For this part, I draw on somatic work, parts work, Gestalt, narrative therapy and psychodynamic approaches. 

Your body is never separate from your story 

I bring years of psychophysiology and nervous system research into how I listen. What you think, what you feel, and what's happening in your body are rarely three separate things, even though most of us were taught to treat them that way. I pay attention to all three together, because that's usually where the real insight is waiting. 

We stay curious, together 

I'm not attached to getting this right by the book. Sometimes that means trying something a little unconventional in the room. An experiment, not a fixed technique but always something we'd agree to together first. Never something done to you. 

There's no pressure to go further than you want to. Some people find everything they need in feeling settled again. Others want to keep going, into what's underneath. Both are complete. 

If this resonates with you, a free 15-minute online match-up meeting is a good place to start.