a relational approach to healing
What is therapy?
Psychotherapy, often referred to simply as ‘therapy’ is an allied health treatment approach offered by a qualified mental health practitioner. Psychotherapy can attend to the whole person, encompassing somatic, emotional, psychological, cultural, relational, and spiritual aspects of health and well-being.
Psychotherapists are qualified and registered professionals who have completed specific academic and experiential training. Finding a licensed therapist who has the experience and training that is a good match for you can take time and exploration. Find out more about my style below to see if we might be a good fit.
“Therapists weave a tapestry with the warp of science-based discoveries and the woof of subjective experience and intuitive art, reaching toward a coherent paradigm that will encourage neural integration through the power of knowledgeable and compassionate relationship”
Meeting together, we can address wounds, grief, longings, dilemmas, detours, disappointments, frustrations, depressions, contradictions, fears, anxieties, shame and other challenging experiences of life.
We can pay attention to aspects of your life experience where you may sense stuckness, confusion and suffering.
Creativity, curiosity and courage are welcomed.
Imagine a time and place where together we…
Grieve what has gone before and seed the future you hope to grow into
Explore, identify and develop steps towards what you most desire
Nurture connections, dialogue and safety between your heart, mind, body & relationships
Equip you with ideas, knowledge, resources and information drawn from multi-disciplinary fields
Author new meanings, purposes and depth in your life
Deepen understanding of the concerns, dilemmas, barriers and challenges you face
Comfort, care for, soothe and metabolize hurts and harms
Respect & understand the survival strategies you have developed over time
Integrate ‘mindfulness’ with an embodied ‘heartfulness’
Appreciate the complex and alive ecology of your thoughts, emotions and sensations
“The ability to ask beautiful questions – often in very un-beautiful moments – is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered”
Root System
I am grateful to draw on a web of wisdom, of which there are too many people, places, beings, and seasons who have influenced me to acknowledge here. But to provide you with some sense of those who’ve accompanied me to this point, here is a brief and incomplete list of diverse practitioners from a range of fields, who have nourished me personally and professionally.
Donna Harraway, Michel Foucault, Michael White, David Denborough, Cheryl White, Alan Kaplan and Sue Davidoff, Bonnie Badenoch, Dan Siegel, Aline La Pierre, Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Janina Fisher, Carl Rogers, Albert Wong, Laurence Heller, Virginia Axline, Lisa Dion, Gabor Mate, Dan Shaw, Ursula Le Guin, Goethe, Borges, John Berger, John Pilger, Bayo Afokomalafe, adrienne maree brown, Vicki Reynolds, David Whyte, Francis Weller, bell hooks, Edward Said, Eve Tuck, Octavia Butler, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Rebecca Solnit, Gregory Bateson, Nora Bateson, Paulo Friere, Miles Horton and many others.
Please ask me for further details on my approach to my work and the different lineages I am connected to and draw on if curious.