“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and righting there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”
— Rumi
Holistic Psychotherapy & Counselling
I am a PACFA-certified, postgraduate-qualified psychotherapist and counsellor, offering trauma-informed therapy sessions face to face at my clinic in Leura, NSW, as well as online to anywhere in the world.
As a holistic therapist I take an integrative, whole-of-person approach, blending a range of powerful modalities together to take you deeper in your healing process. In each session, I tailor my approach to meet you exactly where you are. Holistic psychotherapy blends traditional talk therapy with somatic work to bridge mind and body, offering a more integrated path to healing and wholeness.
In our first session together, you’ll have a chance to tell me your story and we’ll explore what you are needing, so that we can map out an approach that suits you.
Below are some of the frameworks and philosophies that will inform my approach with you.
My approach
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Process Oriented Psychotherapy
I have post-graduate training in process-oriented psychotherapy, which is the daughter of Jungian depth psychology. In session, I help you tap into the deeper processes that are wanting to happen for you; unfolding the subtle and unconscious signals revealed by your mind and body that offer you a direct path to healing, wholeness and self-actualisation. This work is exquisitely tailored to you and your life. It does not diagnose or pathologise you, but instead holds a compassionate and open mind, trusting that a deeper part of you already knows the path back to wholeness.
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Somatic Focusing
I am a certified teacher of a somatic work paradigm called Inner Relationship Focusing. This work was discovered by Eugene Gendlin in the 1970s and harnesses the deep wisdom of the body to show us the way forward into healing. In session, I lean into polyvagal theory, teaching you tools to regulate your nervous system before gently guiding you into the body, where we connect with the family of inner parts. This work is deeply nourishing. It teaches you how to hold, hear and heal the many orphaned, forgotten, wounded and disavowed places inside of you in a way that gently restores agency, freedom and a deep sense of wholeness.
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Wild Body, Wild Mind
This work offers a radical nature-based map of human wholeness. Rather than diagnosing what’s wrong with you, it starts with what’s right, and from that place empowers you to heal and reintegrate even the most dark and challenging aspects of who you are. This work is often conducted in nature settings, and guides you to cultivate the innate resources of your psyche; the inbuilt archetypal facets of wholeness that are your birthright. These facets are central to a rich human life but are typically not modelled to us as children or suppressed by an unhealthy culture. This work draws on Process Oriented Psychotherapy, Inner Relationship Focusing, Wild Mind and Deep Ecology
What’s a psychotherapy session with me like?
I tailor a unique approach for you in every session to meet you exactly where you are
Sessions are 1hr in duration
Choose whatever frequency works for you: weekly, fortnightly, monthly or something else
In our first session together, we can take our time. Slow down. Brush the dust off from the road. We live in fast times, in a fast culture. So there’s time here to take a breath, feel our feet on the ground, and explore what you are needing. I’ll spend time with you, human to human, listening to your story. To the woundings of your past and how you’ve carried them.
As both a holistic psychotherapist and somatic specialist, I bridge talk therapy approaches with deeper somatic tools. I will listen to your stories but also help you find freedom from them. I’ll gently invite you to come into compassionate relationship with the family of your inner parts: your inner wounded ones and orphaned places; I’ll show you how to work with your inner critic; the inner lion tamers, tyrants and inner judges. We’ll explore ways to take back your power and your agency. In this way you can learn to re-parent yourself, unconditionally listening to and calling home your own internal family of parts in a way that was likely not modelled to you by your carers when you were a child.
Using process-oriented tools, we may also track the deeper unconscious signals that show up in your body, your dreams and your relationship patterns. These contain a deep wisdom that offer a path to healing and self-actualisation that is exquisitely tailored to you. In session, I help you tap into these signals and unfold them, empowering you to cross over into a fuller, more authentic expression of who you are.
Most of all I’ll be helping you track the incredible, inbuilt wisdom of your own body, which will show us the way back home. This is the deep path, and it is the work of our time. Turning inwards in a way that we were never taught to do. Leaning into our wounds and our suffering, with compassion and gentleness, equipped with cutting edge tools to regulate the nervous system and find ground again, over and over, whenever you need it. In safety, in slowness I will walk with you, guiding you down, into the fabric of the body, into the tapestry of buried emotion and long frozen energy; down into cellular and ancestral memory, following the golden thread of your path to healing, wholeness, freedom and authenticity.