Psychotherapy Services

Providing a safe and accepting space for you to put your thoughts and feelings into words, helping to make sense of what you're experiencing.

Psychotherapy offers new awareness to release limiting beliefs and past conditioning. To heal the impact of stress and trauma and shift out of reactivity. While strengthening resilience and capacities to cope with the challenges of life,

Common themes in the work I do

Supporting women in all stages of adult life
Exploring the issues you're currently experiencing in the context of your life
Developing more awareness around your patterns and recurring issues
Overcoming tendencies for people pleasing, perfectionism, self-criticism and over-giving to others
Navigating the gifts of the empath and highly sensitive person
Learning to trust your intuition
Uncovering limiting negative beliefs and thought patterns
Developing personal values and expressing needs
Setting and communicating boundaries
Understanding trauma responses
Connecting with and processing emotions
Metabolizing and integrating wounded parts
Overcoming adversity and building resilience
Creating self-worth, confidence, and a healthy relationship with Self
Managing stress, anxiety, worry
Support for grief, loss, depression
Heal the impact of stress and trauma to shift out of reactivity
Identifying the red flags of toxic relationships and the green flags of healthy relationships
Reunite to and develop a deeper relationship with your authentic Self

An Integrated Therapeutic Approach

There are many therapeutic theories & modalities that inform my approach to psychotherapy. These different roadmaps form part of the framework to help guide clients through the process of understanding their problems and for navigating growth or solutions. My integrative/holistic approach blends elements from many theories. some of which are:

Attachment theory & attunement
Family systems theory
Relational codependency
Single incident & complex trauma
ACEs - Adverse childhood experiences
Childhood developmental stages
Psychosocial development - Erik Erikson
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) & theory
Cognitive distortions
Humanistic & existential theories
Maslow's hierarchy of needs

IFS - Internal family systems / Inner family
Mindfulness based psychology / MBCT
Meditation
Polyvagal theory & nervous system regulation
Mind-body connection
Carl Jung - the shadow
Inner Child
Guided imagery & healing
Transpersonal psychology
Energy psychology

Life Journey

Over decades of trainings and learning techniques, I have come to know that theories alone are not the answer for healing. The reason is that a purely clinical and tactical approach does not encompass your humanness - the whole, unique and soulful individual that you are.

Psychotherapy is an art, not a science. Which is why it's most important that you find a good fit with a therapist where you feel safe and comfortable. Someone who is capable of holding space for you and for whatever is arising in sessions. It requires that we trust the process and the innate wisdom of the soul and psyche.

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The work of the mature human being is
to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other.
And, to be stretched large by these two things..

- FRANCIS WELLER