I understand how relational wounds profoundly impact the nervous system, shaping how we regulate feelings, relate to others, and view our worth, while affecting daily functioning through negative emotions, altered sensations, and distressing thoughts. It takes immense courage to seek help. Please do not hesitate to reach out; I am here to support you.
I offer holistic treatment for adults, young people and families, applying an integrative approach to support them to build mind and body awareness, self-connection, compassion and appreciation that create space and energy for healing and rebuilding neuroplasticity.
I hold a compassionate view of psychological distress, as an understandable response to life experience and not a personal weakness. My work is about helping people build insight, emotional capacity, and practical skills, so they can move toward a life with self-energy and confidence.
Wounded experiences shape how a person relates to themselves, others, and the world.
Understand
We start by exploring what’s brought you to therapy, then decide together the most appropriate way forward.
Process
Building our work within an Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework, we look at how the trauma you carry shapes your experience – often surfacing through body sensations, feelings, or thoughts as they arise in sessions.
Rebuild
You’ll learn to notice and appreciate what comes to your attention, building the space, self-acceptance and Self-energy connection that support healing – unburdening trauma. Most clients notice a gradual lifting of symptoms within the first few months.
A major review from the University of Cambridge links regular reading purely for enjoyment to better memory, greater empathy, and improved mental health across every age group.
Source: Clarissa Brincat, New Scientist, 15 September 2026
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A new paper offers a different lens on trauma: rather than the body storing it, the brain may keep predicting danger long after it has passed, with real implications for how healing happens.
Source: MaryCatherine McDonald, Psychology Today, 18 May 2026
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A research brief on how exposure to family violence shapes child development and adult mental health, and what the evidence says about matching treatment to each stage of life.
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I am a registered therapist with a background in both psychological science and social work. I am trained in multiple therapeutic modalities, primarily applying IFS, DBT and TF-CBT, and I specialise in relational trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression.
My approach is integrative, collaborative and flexible, while also structured and goal-oriented where it helps. I’m here to support you in understanding the roots of your difficulties, building greater internal awareness, and making step-by-step changes toward a healthier relationship with yourself and others, as well as your day-to-day functioning.
I see the therapeutic alliance as the most important part of this work, and I value creating a space that’s authentic, respectful, and safe.
A private, steady space to slow down and make sense of what’s been hard to carry alone. Sessions typically run 50–60 minutes, paced to what feels manageable for you, drawing on IFS, DBT or TF-CBT as needed.
Small groups of participants working through similar concerns, in a structured, confidential format. Groups typically run for 6 to 12 sessions and combine psychoeducation with practical skills practice.
Couple and family sessions bring partners, or parents and young people, into the room together to work through shared concerns, in a structured, confidential space, tailored to what you need right now.
Structured programs for young people navigating specific, common challenges, run in small groups over a set number of sessions, with parallel support for parents. Places are limited – get in touch to ask about the next intake.
A 12-session online program addressing digital addiction in both adolescents and their parents, alongside the trauma-related wellbeing and relational issues that often sit underneath it. Run as two parallel tracks – 8 sessions for young people aged 12 to 16 and 4 mirrored sessions for parents and caregivers – the program integrates DBT within an IFS framework. The group explores what a young person’s relationship with their device might be protecting them from, while parents examine both their own digital habits and the same question from their side – building emotional safety in the family system without requiring young people and parents to be in the room together. An optional, low-pressure joint session closes out the program for families who’d like it, as participants are expected to have a healthier relationship with digital devices and with family by the time the program concludes.
My therapy draws primarily from Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT), along with somatic and mindfulness-based approaches that centre on bodily awareness. I also draw on Attachment-Focused EMDR as an adjunct where it’s helpful.
I place particular emphasis on emotional awareness grounded in bodily experience, self-compassion, and access to Self-energy, alongside values-based action, psychoeducation, and structured skills training. I hold authenticity, respect and safety as central to every session.
Concession rate: available if you hold a health card or pensioner card. Please mention this when you get in touch.
Sessions are offered in office, outdoors in nature, or online.
