I have been working as a therapist for nearly 25 years.

My experience of life so far is that authenticity, love, and courage are at the heart of healing.

My first encounter with body psychotherapy was in my 20’s. I found myself in group bioenergetic therapy, week after week uncovering layers of denial and disembodiment, slowly finding my voice.

I discovered the subtler layers of working with my trauma were missed in those days of cathartic experimental body psychotherapy.

Building resilience and the capacity to experience subtle body sensations continues to be part of my growth.

I am curious and in awe of the wisdom of the body to reveal the nature of existence itself and our innate interconnection and belonging to the vast mystery.

It took me many years to connect with the frozen helplessness and preverbal early trauma in the tissues of my body. I uncovered a story of shame, anger, and defensiveness that had been protecting me from layers of vulnerability, connection, and empowerment.

Grief has been a portal to the tenderness and possibilities of a heart that can hold both suffering and compassion. Grief continues to dissolve polarities of right and wrong and transform them into love. I have noticed that the heart qualities of forgiveness and kindness grow the more I am willing to be with what hurts.

I was part of a community exploring awakening through conscious relationships as a cisgender white woman. This has taken the form of initiations into archetypes of the deep feminine, holding and being part of a woman’s embodied temple space, offering retreats, and teaching a woman’s ancient tantric womb dance.

Nature has been a teacher and I now live in Cornwall. The sea has been a profound meditation The ever-changing nature of what it means to be alive, interconnected, and embodied.

My growing edge is to play, to find joy and pleasure in simple ways. To accept my imperfect flawed self and to offer myself to this precious one life.

My passion is to rest in a deeper spacious expression of myself, unraveling what keeps me from forgetting my true nature of freedom and love.

I am currently in training to become a Mindfulness Meditation teacher.

I am offering Monthly Mindfulness Sessions in Looe and a one-day retreat both in September 2024.

"Real healing is a journey that never ends. Simplicity becomes a guide. Humility and compassion grow as layers, deep in the bones and tissues, resolve themselves." 

Some highlights of my formal psychotherapy training and experience

• I originally trained in Transactional Analysis Counselling, BA Hons at the Metanoia Institute, London.

• A further 2 years training in Embodied Relationship Therapy with Nick Totton

• Exploration in Group Process Therapy - Chaos and Grace.

• Complex Trauma Certificate and Working with Complex Shame - Janine Fisher

• Exploring the neuroscience of embodied safety, polyvagal theory, and somatic movement practices to facilitate embodied change.

• I have explored modalities of personal and group body psychotherapy for many years.

• The work of exploring structural racism White privilege and systemic oppression. Hard conversation with Patti Digh.. Whiteness circles a therapeutic space exploring my part in racism and systemic oppression, white privilege, and power.

• As a cisgender white woman, I continue to do the challenging work of dismantling and uprooting unconscious discrimination based on race, gender, class, and sexuality and social inequality. I acknowledge that this work is uncomfortable and very deep yet essential to set us all free from the binds of colonization power structures of racism and systemic oppression that live in our bones and tissues through intergenerational trauma.

• Mindfulness Meditation Training -Ongoing 2-year training with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield

• I am a registered member of British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.