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.

Early on, we usually focus on regulating your nervous system and determining what might be keeping you stuck in patterns of stress. We look at what’s happening in a practical, grounded way and build tools that help you manage things on a daily basis. This might include working with thought patterns, learning to sit with difficult emotions, or slowing things down enough to better understand what your body has been trying to communicate to you. I draw on evidence-based approaches such as ACT, CBT, narrative therapy, and psychoeducation to assist in this.

Over time, only if and when it feels right, we can also go deeper. We start to explore where your patterns may have come from, and what they were originally trying to protect you from. For many people, this awareness can create space for meaningful change, where you’re not just managing symptoms but better comprehend the intelligence behind your stuckness and begin to understand that other ways of being are indeed possible. For this work I draw on somatic approaches, parts work, and psychodynamic perspectives.

In our sessions, I also bring in my background in psychophysiology and nervous system research, which shapes how I listen and work with you. I pay close attention to the link between what you think, what you feel emotionally, and what's happening in your body, because in my experience they are rarely separate.

There is no pressure to go further than how you want to. Some clients find what they need largely in symptom reduction, whilst others choose to continue further understanding their deeper patterns shaping their mental health and wellbeing. Both are completely valid.