A compassionate, international online space to reclaim your authentic Self.
Worldwide online therapy available
I can offer trauma-focused psychotherapy & counselling, online with English-speaking people, in the UK and Internationally.
I integrate two established trauma-focused therapies. The first is Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the second is EMDR. Trauma informed therapy helps you let go of emotional burdens, and history of all types of trauma, at a deep embodied level.
I am an IFS Institute Level-3 therapist and an EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner. I have practiced clinically in the National Health Service in the UK for around 20 years.
Every emotion has an address in the body
Trauma-informed therapy is best described as less about trying to fix a problem or remove symptoms. It is more about realising these 'performances' and 'adaptations' are ways your nervous system has been protecting your Self.
So if you have intrusive symptoms like anxiety or panic, anger and fight responses etc, we get to know these protective 'parts' and ask them to relax and feel more at peace. And with more unknown, fawning & absent 'symptoms' such as depression, hopelessness, loneliness, emptiness and erasure, we can awaken these parts as well.
As Gabor Maté says:
"Trauma is not what happens to you. It is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you."
This combined IFS and EMDR therapy connects with presence, witnessing and validation.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a compassionate way we befriend troubled adaptations in your nervous sytem. Often you may have 'parts' of you that are busy protecting you, by for example 'people pleasing' by or shrinking you in various ways, with shame and self-abandonment perhaps. So by getting to know these parts we can allow them to let go of these survival 'jobs' they have inherited.
Learn about IFS
Eye-Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing
Healing the past to feel more present
EMDR is a structured trauma therapy that can help you 'reprocess' dysregulating memories and adverse experiences. Using bilateral stimulation and tapping, we can imaginally reconnect with these memories and repair, retrieve and rescue yourself from these moments. This can bring peace and space for your authentic self.
Learn about EMDR
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If you would like to explore whether trauma-informed therapy could be helpful, please get in touch.
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