Psychotherapy, Consultation, Treatment
About Me
My approach to psychotherapy is shaped by a long and varied career in education, alongside many years of personal and professional exploration.
I trained in Psychosynthesis, a depth and transpersonal psychotherapy that is concerned with transformation, self-realisation and healing. I have also trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, which brings an understanding of how trauma can be held in the body and how healing can take place through greater awareness and connection with our physical experience. My work is informed by developments in neuroscience, alongside the understanding that meaningful change involves the whole person — mind, body and spirit.
I am a wife, mother and grandmother, and these experiences have given me a deep appreciation of the many stages, transitions and challenges that make up a human life. I bring not only professional training, but also the perspective that comes with experience, curiosity and having lived through some of life’s inevitable joys and difficulties.
I have always found wisdom in classic literature and philosophy, and often draw on these rich traditions as a way of exploring what it means to be human. They remind us that the questions we struggle with today are, in many ways, timeless ones.
I believe that suffering cannot be entirely avoided. Life will bring loss, uncertainty, change and pain. But I also believe that it is in the way we relate to our suffering — rather than simply trying to escape it — that we can discover greater freedom, peace and solace.
My hope is to offer a thoughtful, compassionate space where you can come to know yourself more deeply, make sense of your experiences, and perhaps find new ways of being with yourself and with life.
I am based in Suffolk and work in-person and online.
My Qualifications
- MA Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy (Middx) www.psychosynthesis.org
- UKCP accreditation
- Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist: Trauma and body psychotherapy: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Boulder Colorado
- Member APP – Association of Psychospiritual Psychotherapy
- PG Dip: Counselling
- PG Dip: Psychotherapy
- Dip: Clinical Supervision and Consultancy
- Further training: The Centre for Child Mental Health; CBT model; Personal Performance Coaching; Right Relations
- BA Contemporary Cultural Studies (Middx Polytechnic)
- MA Communication Culture & Society (Goldsmiths)
- Workshops (What You May Be) personal and professional development programmes
- Former tutor/trainer: CPCAB Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.
- Cert Education Teacher training. Over 25 years’ experience in education
Psychotherapy
Life can be challenging. At different times, we may struggle with our health, our relationships, or our sense of who we are and where we belong. Whether we are alone or sharing our lives with someone, we can experience fear and doubt, profound love and painful anger. We may feel lost, disconnected or overwhelmed, while at other times we discover joy, connection and a renewed sense of possibility.
There are periods when we feel able to grow and thrive, and others when life can leave us feeling anxious, depressed, stuck or unable to cope. We may find ourselves caught in patterns or behaviours that no longer serve us, including addiction, difficult relationships or ways of coping that once helped us but have become limiting.
Change is not always easy. Sometimes the experiences that bring us to a point of crisis, breakdown or uncertainty can also become an opportunity to understand ourselves more deeply and create something different.
As we move through life and into new stages, our relationships with ourselves, with others and with the world around us can change. We may need to make sense of past experiences, heal from trauma, develop greater emotional awareness, and understand the patterns that shape the way we think, feel and relate.
Therapy offers a space to slow down and look honestly at what is happening in your life. Together, we can explore the difficulties you are facing, understand where they may come from, and consider what needs to change. This may involve working with the past, addressing patterns in the present, and finding new ways of living and relating that feel more authentic and sustainable.
If you want to do more than simply ‘survive’ — if you want to understand yourself more deeply, transform your relationships, or find a way through one of life’s dilemmas — please get in touch.
Counselling can provide support through immediate distress and difficult periods in life. Psychotherapy offers the opportunity for deeper exploration and lasting change: a space to understand yourself, heal, grow and move forward with greater freedom and choice.
Individual
Imagine finding a peace and contentment that seeps into your bones, a place within you that sustains you regardless of what comes your way. Imagine feeling seen, valued, a sense of knowing your path.
The way we are cared for and related to early in life, our role models, for better or worse, affect the way we manage the trials and tribulations of our lives thereafter. The way we form and experience relationships, our capacity to give and receive love, even how close we get to reaching our potential, is part of that same mix. Living in a frantic world with its many demands complicates this further.
Life is not a finished product and what we need changes along the way. In each moment we are unfolding to more and more of who we are and can be. What we ‘lack’ we already have deep within us and part of the journey is to ‘rediscover’ this, to find the meaning and purpose of our life. A life worth living.
Counselling suits short term work and can help to alleviate immediate distress, but for those willing to commit to a longer process, the deeper work of psychotherapy can bring about real life-changing transformation and healing.
Couples
None of us come ‘ready’ and ‘perfect’ for relationship or marriage. We learn as we go along, most often in times of struggle, when old traumas are re-awakened and the cycle of conflict returns again. But we live our lives in relationship, and whether shy, extrovert, wealthy or poor, without connection we can feel empty and that life is meaningless.
Intimate relationship of all kinds urges us to mature, compelling us to examine who we are and what we want. It’s where we truly get to discover ourselves; our hopes, fears, our longings and often what we lack. It is also through relationship we heal.
You can deepen your awareness; communicate more authentically, create something new and change direction, if that is what you want.
Themes
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- Stilling the mind/Mindfulness
- Improving attention
- Use and abuse of anger
- Coping with anxiety/uncertainty
- Managing loss, change & redundancy
- Transforming addictions
- Good endings & new beginnings
- Uncovering and working with emotion
- Working through loss, change, redundancy
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- Effective listening
- Opening to empathy
- Holding boundaries
- Containing conflict/conflict resolution
- Developing compassion
- Flexible thinking
- Non-violent communication
- Assertion without aggression
- Giving/receiving feedback
- Opening the heart
- Understanding defences
- Uncovering and transforming destructive patterns
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- Understanding & managing your creative process
- Unblocking Will
- Unlocking potential
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- Trauma
- Developmental Injury
- Attachment Issues
- Addictions
- Deep wounding
- Shame
- Guilt
- Broken relationships
- Moral injury
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- Exploring the Buddhist notion of ‘Right Relationship’; with self and the world
- Integrity, stability, beauty, wonder, love
- Deepening connection to faith and/or spirituality
- Deepening connection to Self
- Exploring Being and transcendence
- Personal power, personal impact
- Power with responsibility
- I-thou relationship
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- Finding meaning purpose and value in your life
- Hearing the call
- Exploring what’s needed, what needs to change
Supervision
Supervision is a ‘relationship of care’ with a specific purpose, that is to provide a dependable time place and process, where issues and dilemmas encountered by professionals, who work alone or as part of teams, can be resolved confidentially, safely and supportively.
Such a space is not only essential for critical reflection and the exploration of concerns and problems but also a place to play with ideas and discover new and creative ways to handle the psychological dynamics that exist within us and between us.
It can grow into a long and profound relationship with the potential to restore enthusiasm and motivation, remind us of our passion for the work we have chosen, and sometimes help us to see when we need rest or change.
When we are well and enjoying our lives, those who live and work with us are affected by the ripples.