The therapeutic models I use in my practice…
Sensorimotor and somatic approaches help us pay attention to the body—its sensations, posture, and subtle cues—offering insight into how emotions and experiences are stored physically, often outside of conscious awareness.
Attachment theory explores how our earliest relationships shape our internal expectations of connection, trust, and safety with others. It can help make sense of recurring patterns in adult relationships and offer a path toward more secure and satisfying connections.
Psychodynamic therapy looks at the influence of early life experiences and how they continue to shape our current behaviours, emotional responses, and relationship dynamics—sometimes in ways we don’t even realise.
Polyvagal theory provides a framework for understanding how our nervous system responds to stress, danger, or disconnection. It helps explain why we might shut down, become overwhelmed, or struggle to feel safe—even when there’s no obvious threat.
Gestalt therapy brings awareness to the present moment and what’s happening “in the room.” It encourages creativity, spontaneity, and emotional honesty, offering opportunities to resolve unfinished business from the past by working with it in the here and now.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a gentle yet powerful way of exploring the different “parts” of ourselves—such as the inner critic, the protector, or the wounded child. Each part has a role and a reason for being, and IFS helps us understand and relate to them with compassion and curiosity.
These approaches aren’t used in a rigid or prescriptive way. Instead, they offer a rich and adaptable toolkit to support you in whatever you’re navigating—whether that’s anxiety, grief, identity, relationships, or simply a desire to understand yourself more fully.
In integrative counselling and psychotherapy, different therapeutic approaches are thoughtfully woven together to suit your unique needs, goals, and ways of experiencing the world. It’s a collaborative and flexible process that supports emotional healing, self-awareness, and personal growth.
While counselling often focuses on short-term immediate challenges and practical strategies, psychotherapy may explore deeper emotional patterns and longer-term change. An integrative approach allows space for both, meeting you exactly where you are.
Working this way isn’t simply about mixing techniques—it requires in-depth training, clinical experience, a deep understanding of each therapeutic model, along with the sensitivity and insight to know what might be most helpful at any given moment.
I draw on approaches that complement each other while offering different ways of understanding the challenges you are facing. This allows us to explore your experience from multiple angles, at a pace and depth that feels right for you.
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ”