My vision for our work together
I truly believe that each of us has the capacity to heal ourselves. My intention is to hold space for you as you activate your own innate ability to heal. By developing a good understanding of and relationship with your Self, my hope is that you feel more integrated, calm, capable and joyful and most important, in charge of your own life.
Our work together is a co-created process. We proceed at a pace that suits all parts of you. The experience should feel empowering, respectful, and centering. Ongoing consent is an important aspect of the work. Although you may be sharing experiences from your past, we will focus on learning what is happening in the current moment, and how this is relevant for your life now.
You may be coming for counselling because you have aspects of yourself that you want to change. It could be many things: people come with struggles with anxiety and avoidance, fear, grief, people pleasing, overeating, gaming, overthinking, giving away your authority, lack of confidence, confusion, unfulfilling relationships, loneliness and disconnection, substance use. None of these are disorders. I believe that those parts of us are acting in those ways for good reasons. When you look closely you'll see that your behaviours and responses make sense in the context of your experience, your story and your beliefs. And if you can cultivate curiousity about those aspects of yourself, you will better understand the need they are meeting within you. And when your awareness truly shifts, you can begin to find ways to meet your needs in other more fulfilling ways.
My hope is that you will find our time together enlivening and freeing. My intention is that you will feel more peaceful, more confident and better able to deal with the inevitable challenges life presents. I aim to equip you with the skills and insight so you can seek further within your own Self, to access your own knowledge and wisdom.
In particular, we’d be a great fit if:
- You are a highly sensitive person or identify as an empath.
- You feel overwhelmed by anxiety or self-doubt too often.
- You find yourself pleasing others and then feeling resentful that your needs are not being met.
- You are in a caregiving role and find yourself depleted and burnt out.
- You get caught up in trying to get everything done perfectly and 'do good' or 'be good', even when you know you are holding yourself to an impossible standard.
- You get stuck in painful emotions or find yourself avoiding or numbing out in ways you wish you wouldn't.
- You find yourself irritable with the important people in your life.
- You are wanting to have stronger relationships.
- You have lost a significant person/being in your life and feel stuck in the pain and grief of this loss.
- You have a chronic illness or chronic pain and feel stuck in frustration and lack of understanding from others.
- You feel like the traumatic events in your life might be holding you back from living the life you want.
- You have lots of good ideas of what might help you feel better but feel frustrated when change happens slowly or not at all.
- You have a deep longing to be heard and understood, and to understand yourself.
- You are struggling to figure yourself out and are also open to doing courageous work.
- You are a self-healer seeking someone finely-attuned to support and accompany you in your transformative journey.
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My life’s work has been about finding my own voice. Having followed a path of self-discovery through Gestalt, Internal Family Systems, Somatic and Embodied practices. Now, I want to share with others the healing modalities that have brought me freedom, clarity, and joy.
"IT IS ONLY WITH THE HEART...
"...that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the human eye."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
