My Approach

I offer a safe therapeutic space, attentive to what is experienced, expressed and felt.

My work is grounded in the here and now, while taking each person’s history into account. We explore the past when it helps us understand what is happening in the present, while remaining attentive to your experience in the moment; your thoughts, emotions and what is expressed through the body.

My approach brings together body-oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. Words and reflection remain an important part of the work, alongside attention to emotions, bodily sensations, non-verbal communication and the responses of the nervous system.

The body can offer another way of exploring what has not yet found words, including tensions and the traces of past experiences, but also the resources available to us in the present. Body-oriented interventions may be introduced when they support the therapeutic process, rather than as a systematic part of every session.

The aim is for what is understood and experienced in therapy to gradually become integrated into everyday life.

CREATING A SAFE THERAPEUTIC SPACE

A trusting relationship where difficult experiences can be explored without judgement or pressure.

MAKING SPACE FOR WHAT IS PRESENT

Paying attention to what emerges in the session; words, emotions, bodily sensations, silences and reactions, and allowing space for what needs to emerge.

RESPECTING EACH PERSON’S PACE

Lasting change develops gradually. We move step by step, respecting each person’s pace and the resources available to them.

UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF & YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

Exploring reactions, recurring patterns and ways of protecting yourself that influence how you experience yourself and relate to others. In couples therapy, this also includes the dynamic between partners and the patterns that play out within the relationship.

INTEGRATING CHANGE INTO EVERYDAY LIFE

Allowing what is understood, felt and experienced in therapy to open up new ways of responding and new possibilities for choice in everyday life and relationships.