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”
When pain, harm and distress are impacting someones life, this always has a relational history. My approach takes seriously the way relationships of all kinds influence our lives in ways that can harm and ways that can nurture. Therapy with me might be understood as a time and place where you can experience relational support, compassionate inquiry and sensitive care.
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.
Some of the elements I integrate in my work include:
Narrative Practices
Ecological Systems Theories
Internal Family Systems
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Polyvagal Theory
Attachment Theory
Trauma Responsive Care
Neuroaffective Touch
Political & Social Sciences
Poetic and Literary work
Play based, Expressive and Creative Approaches
Nature Based Settings
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I am enrolled in the 2026 cohort to commence the pathway of becoming a
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner
“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”
Lineage
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.