An integrative approach rooted in neuroscience, somatic practice, and depth psychology — holding your nervous system, your inner world, and the subconscious patterns beneath it all in the same field of attention. Not a sequence of techniques, but a single coherent way of working that reaches further because it starts deeper.
Most people who come to me have been carrying something for a long time — sometimes they know what to call it, sometimes they don't. Trauma, a nervous system that never quite settled, a sense of not quite fitting anywhere. They may have tried therapy before and found it didn't reach the thing that needed reaching. They can describe what's happening. They just can't shift it.
My approach is built on a simple conviction: that human beings are not thinking machines with feelings attached. We are embodied, relational, layered creatures — and therapy that addresses only one layer will always be limited. What makes the work I do distinctive isn't the list of modalities I draw on. It's that I work across them at the same time. In any given moment, I'm tracking your body, your language, your emotional response and the protective patterns underneath — and meeting all of them in the same breath, not in sequence.
Sessions with me don't follow a script. They follow you. Some weeks we work with thoughts and stories. Others we pay attention to what's happening in your body, your breath, the quality of tension in your chest. All of it is information. All of it matters — and none of it follows a plan made before you walked in.
My clients tend to carry more than one thing at once. A history that is layered — relational, cultural, familial — and doesn't compress neatly into a presenting problem. A nervous system that has been working overtime for years. A feeling of not quite belonging, whether that shows up in therapy rooms, family systems, or in the world more broadly.
Many have a complicated relationship with the word "therapy" itself. Some have tried it and found it stayed too much on the surface. Others have never quite managed to begin. What they share is this: something in them knows there is deeper work to do, and they're ready to do it properly.
Trauma, relational rupture, estrangement, or abuse — experiences that have left a mark that ordinary life hasn't touched.
Whether it hasn't worked before, or you've never found the courage to try, you've needed something that meets more of you.
Neurodivergence, cultural background, orientation, or intense life experiences — the usual categories have always felt like they were built for someone else.
You feel things intensely. Your body responds to the world in ways that have been hard to explain, manage, or make sense of.
You're someone who thinks deeply about yourself but struggles to feel the difference in your body. You want a therapist who will be honest, hold things carefully, and bring genuine curiosity — not a formula — to your experience. You're open to working in ways that might feel unfamiliar at first.
The work I do is depth-oriented and requires genuine willingness to be in it — with the parts of yourself that are uncomfortable to look at, not just the ones you've already made sense of. I don't offer crisis or emergency support. If I'm not the right fit, I'll do my best to point you somewhere that is.
What happens in the room — and why it's different from what you might expect.
Every person arrives with a unique history — the events, relationships, and experiences that have shaped how you move through the world. We take time to understand that context before anything else. There's no rush to fix.
Relational foundationYour nervous system holds information that words can't always reach. I'll gently invite you to notice what's happening in your body — sensations, tension, breath — because that's often where the real material lives.
Somatic awarenessDrawing on IFS and depth psychology, we explore the different parts of you — the protective strategies, the inner critics, the younger selves — with curiosity rather than judgment. Every part of you makes sense.
Parts work & depthChange isn't linear, and it doesn't always announce itself. We create space for what emerges between sessions — and we track what's shifting over time. The goal isn't insight alone. It's a felt, lasting difference.
Integration & changeAll of the work here is trauma-informed — not as an add-on, and not only for people who use that word about themselves. It's the foundation the whole practice is built on. Many people arrive carrying things they wouldn't call trauma, but that have quietly shaped how they move through the world. This approach is built to meet that — with care for the nervous system, no pressure to narrate what happened, and nothing that moves faster than you can actually use.
We go at the speed your nervous system can actually use — not the speed that looks like progress from the outside.
What might look like resistance or avoidance is the body doing exactly what it learned to do — and it deserves curiosity, not pressure.
I'll tell you what I'm noticing, what I'm thinking of trying, and why — so nothing happens to you that you haven't understood and agreed to.
You hold the authority in these sessions — always — and the work is shaped around that fact, not just stated at the beginning and forgotten.
I'm trained in several distinct approaches and draw from all of them — not as separate techniques, but as a coherent, integrated way of working. Here's what each brings to the room.
Somatic therapy recognises that trauma and stress live in the body — not just the mind. Through guided attention to physical sensations, breath, and movement, we help the nervous system complete cycles it couldn't finish and release patterns held in tissue and muscle.
IFS understands the mind as a system of distinct parts — each with its own perspective, feelings, and role. The inner critic, the anxious part, the part that shuts down — all of them are trying to help in some way. IFS helps you develop a compassionate relationship with every part of yourself.
Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr Stephen Porges, explains how our nervous system constantly scans for safety and threat — and how this shapes everything from our mood to our relationships. Understanding your own nervous system states is one of the most liberating things therapy can offer.
Clinical hypnotherapy is nothing like stage hypnosis. It's a deeply relaxed, focused state — not unconsciousness — that allows us to access the subconscious mind more directly. It can be particularly effective for anxiety, phobias, ingrained patterns, and beliefs that have proven resistant to conscious change.
Integrative counselling draws from multiple therapeutic traditions — psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive — woven together based on what each individual needs. It's the foundation that holds everything else together, ensuring the work is always tailored to you rather than applied from a template.
Coaching isn't therapy — and that distinction matters. It doesn't work with trauma or diagnosis. What it does is help you get clear on where you are, where you want to be, and what's quietly standing in the way. This is structured, purposeful work for people who are functioning well but feel pulled between competing directions, stuck at a threshold, or ready for a change they haven't quite been able to make alone.
Most integrative therapists move between approaches across sessions. I work across them within the same moment. Your nervous system response, the part of you that just spoke, the metaphor you reached for, the breath that caught — these aren't separate signals to address one at a time. They're the same thing showing up at different levels. I'm trained to read all of them and respond to all of them, together. That's where the change happens that talking alone hasn't reached.
Taking the next step
The best way to know is a conversation. A free 20-minute consultation gives us both the chance to ask questions, get a sense of each other, and decide whether this feels like the right fit. No pressure. No commitment.