Integrative Embodied Psychotherapy
A Space to Come Home to Yourself
Embodied psychotherapy rooted in presence, creativity, and deep listening.
My Approach
My approach to psychotherapy is integrative, embodied, and relational. I work with the understanding that our emotional lives are not held only in the mind, but are lived and expressed through the whole body. Therapy can therefore become a space not only for insight and reflection, but also for reconnecting with felt experience, inner movement, imagination, creativity, and deeper aspects of the self.
Rooted originally in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, my work has evolved over more than twenty-five years into a broader somatic and depth-oriented practice. I draw on embodied awareness, parts work, active imagination, creative process, and psychodynamic understanding, including influences from Jungian thought. For some clients, movement or creative exploration may become part of the work; for others, the therapy remains primarily conversational, while still attentive to the intelligence of the body and nervous system. At the heart of my practice is a belief in the psyche’s innate capacity for healing, meaning, and transformation when given the right conditions of presence, safety, and attuned relationship.
My work is also quietly informed by a longstanding Buddhist practice of more than three decades. The qualities of mindfulness, compassion, presence, and non-judgement have deeply shaped both my personal life and professional practice. While therapy with me is not Buddhist in orientation, these principles support a way of working that encourages greater awareness, acceptance, and a more compassionate relationship with ourselves and our experience.
Nature also informs my way of working deeply. Alongside psychotherapy, I am a practitioner and teacher of Qi Gong, and I value practices that cultivate groundedness, vitality, connection, and inner listening. My work invites clients towards a more compassionate relationship with themselves and a deeper sense of belonging within their own embodied lives.
About Me
Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked professionally as a dancer, performer, and dance artist. Dance was my first language — a way of understanding experience, emotion, relationship, and the world itself. Over time, I began to recognise that what moved me most deeply was not performance alone, but the transformative and therapeutic potential of movement practice: the process of being in the studio, as well as outdoors, creating, improvising, and moving in relationship with both self and nature.
This realisation led me to retrain as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist, allowing me to bring together my creative background with a profound interest in emotional and psychological healing. Since then, my practice has continued to evolve through extensive therapeutic work, ongoing study, somatic approaches, depth psychology, and contemplative movement practices. While movement remains an important thread within my work, the focus is always on meeting each person uniquely and finding the therapeutic language that best supports their process.
Somatic Practice
Somatic practice is at the heart of my work. I believe our experiences live not only in thoughts and emotions, but also within the body — through sensation, movement, breath, tension, energy, and nervous system patterns. Bringing gentle awareness to the body can open new ways of understanding ourselves and create possibilities for healing that talking alone does not always reach.
My background in dance, movement psychotherapy, Qi Gong, mindfulness, and embodied practice informs the way I work. Sessions may include simple grounding practices, breath awareness, movement, imagination, or attention to bodily experience, always guided by what feels supportive and appropriate for each individual client.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Many of us experience an inner world that can feel conflicted at times. One part of us longs for change, while another feels afraid. One part strives and achieves, while another feels exhausted or overwhelmed. Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers a compassionate framework for understanding these different aspects of ourselves.
Rather than seeing these parts as obstacles, IFS views them as carrying valuable stories, emotions, and protective intentions. Through gentle exploration, we can begin to listen to these inner voices with greater curiosity and care, allowing old patterns to soften and new possibilities to emerge.
I have trained in Internal Family Systems and have integrated this work into my psychotherapy practice. Combined with my embodied, relational, and depth-oriented approach, IFS provides a powerful way of supporting greater self-understanding, inner harmony, and connection to the deeper resources that already exist within us.
Feeding Your Demons®
Feeding Your Demons® is a deeply compassionate method for meeting the inner struggles that can keep us stuck — whether these take the form of fear, anxiety, self-criticism, shame, grief, or recurring emotional patterns. Developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione from an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice, it offers an alternative to the habit of battling with ourselves.
Through a guided process that combines mindfulness, imagination, embodiment, and dialogue, we learn to turn towards difficult experiences with curiosity and compassion. In doing so, inner conflicts can soften, revealing greater freedom, vitality, and connection.
I have been an authorised teacher of Feeding Your Demons® since 2010 and am one of only two authorised teachers in the UK, as well as being certified to offer individual facilitation sessions.
Relationship Counselling
I also work with couples and relationships, offering a space where people can slow down and listen more deeply to themselves and one another. Relationships often carry our deepest longings, vulnerabilities, protective patterns, and unmet needs, and therapy can help create new ways of communicating and relating.
My approach to relationship therapy is compassionate, soulful, and non-blaming. Together we explore the emotional dynamics beneath conflict or disconnection, supporting greater understanding, honesty, intimacy, and care within the relationship.