Approach
"We’re all just walking each other home."
- Ram Dass
The most essential element for healing lies in the quality of the relationship between us. Entering therapy can feel deeply confronting, and it is knowing this feeling that informs my approach. My down to Earth manner comes from a place of curiosity, respect, and care, to support a sound connection.
Clinically I have trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and now am undertaking an Object Relations informed Infant Observation study, along with further enquiry within psychoanalytic supervision. I draw upon a wide range of evidence-based interventions within the context of the psychodynamic relational model.
My task as I see it as a psychotherapist, is to continue learning about the mind and the human condition, in order to walk with others on their discovery and creation of their own particular path.
Through the passage of mid-life, and in my years working with addictions, it became apparent that human suffering requires a framework of meaning if we are to find peace. Broadening my training to explore Eastern practices of meditation, yoga, dream work, evolutionary astrology, and hypnotherapy, has added a depth and frame for the exploration of this mystery we are all part of.