CORE PROCESS PSYCHOTHERAPY
I believe that there is healing in being met with kindness, compassion, and non-judgement. I offer you a space every week in which you can be yourself, explore your experiences, feelings, and life, and take time to focus on finding ways to build your joyfulness, playfulness, bodyfulness. Whether working online or in person I support you to uncover your own inner courage, peace, love, and voice. Sometimes this will involve being with you in the more challenging places and working with you to understand what may be getting in the way of you more fully flourishing in your life.
Core Process Psychotherapy combines Buddhist and Western Psychology, bringing together dharmic and modern wisdom to transform your life and bring more ease, freedom, and joy. It is primarily a relational mindfulness approach using a kind holding relationship to welcome your mind, heart, and body in whatever way they turn up in the moment. Core Process Psychotherapy supports transformation and growth at your own pace and in your own unique way. Your core wellbeing can be hidden from you by your habitual patterns and ways of being and relating. These patterns are often those you adopted in the past to keep yourself safe and have your needs met. Bringing light to the shapes you habitually turn up in in relationship helps you to find clarity about your unique emotional and psychological tangles.
I take an embodied mindfulness approach. Much modern psychotherapeutic practice and research, including neuropsychology, shows the link between bodily experiences and sensations and emotional and thinking lives. Coming in to a more conscious relationship with your moment-by-moment embodied experience supports transformation in areas in your life where you may have become stuck in old and no longer helpful ways of behaving. This enables you to move from reacting to responding to experience.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY
I am a Level 1 Internal Family Systems practitioner. I will gain my Level 2 certificate in May 2024.
I am currently taking on clients for Internal Family Systems therapy. Contact me to find out more.
Internal Family Systems is an approach with a strong and evolving evidence base. It sees us as multiplicitous beings, with a complex and rich internal world populated by parts or sub-personalities, each with their own beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of the world. Some of these parts hold past trauma and tend to have a host of protective 'managers' and 'firefighters' proactively and reactively protecting the system from these trauma burdens in sometimes extreme and distressing ways for clients. We can work together to unburden trauma burdens of shame, loneliness and fear that parts in your system carry on your behalf. This frees up joy, spontaneity, creativity, connection, and love in your life.
If you would like to get to know yourself better; if you would like to have an active and engaged therapist guide you to work with care, compassion, and clarity with your inner system of parts; if you would like to become more whole and integrated: then this approach may be a good fit for you.
Working using the IFS model delights and astonishes me in the beauty of the client-therapist collaboration it supports and the depth of the change it enables for clients over a short period of time.