Therapeutic Process

Successful therapy starts with the building of safety, trust and rapport between client and therapist. These three elements are the foundation within which you the client can share and explore what is going on for you within a conatiner of acceptance and understanding. As this container becomes familiar and predictable trust can emerge as you verify that it really is safe and anything that you are experiencing is ok simply because it is there. And as safety and trust become established so there can be an effective rapport between client and therapist where a confidence becomes natural and expected.
Within this atmosphere past experiences and internal stories can be acknowledged, explored and understood. Where there is listening, acceptance, curiosity and understanding especially within yourelf toward yourself a foundation of change becomes established and deep change is then possible.

Therapies

My background was established within a counselling framework and then further deepened through studying Hypnotherapy which works with language and the subconscious mind. Listening to how a client speaks and uses language is a baseline for how I listen and begin to understand how they are feeling, expressing and importantly, how they perceive themselves. After language there is the body. What it feels, what it holds, how do we relate to our body. All my studies for the last 10 years have been body/brain based approaches that recognise different aspects of memory that can be stored in both brain and body and they recognise how important it is to align the brain and body in order to include all aspects of the conditions that we experience and be able to provide effective treatment.

TRE

TRE was developed by David Berceli who recognised that the body releases tension, stress and trauma through neurogenic tremoring within the body. The client leans a set of gentle exercises that result in the body naturally tremoring/shaking. The body naturally releases what it holds in the muscles and facia when it tremors.
TRE is a very good companion to other therapeutic process and also provides a client with their own practise both during and after therapy.

Brainspottting

Brainspotting was developed by David Grand, an EMDR therapist who modified EMDR to create Brainspotting. This technique utilises where the eyes look when they are tuned into sensations in the body that correspond to the issue the client is experiencing. It is a kind of mindful focusing on key spots where the brain then processes what is has previously been unable to do.

IFS - Internal Family Systems

IFS was developed by Richard Schwarz and recognises that we all have a Self that is inherently wise, confident, clear, creative and naturally connecting. Our Self can become suppressed and inaccessible through trauma, lack of care and adverse conditionsand we develop 'parts' that respond and deal with specific situations and experiences. The parts can become problematic when they lose touch woth both Self and each other and start to operate independently.
IFS is a therapy that works woth both parts and Self to bring back Self into the system, calrify what parts are active and what they are doing and ultimately undurden the parts from the protective and challenging roles that they may have had to assume.