Overview

I work with the mental health side of physical health, and the physical health side of mental health. Somatic Movement Therapy works with this overlap between how we feel in our physical body and our emotional experience too. It places your experince as central, so how you feel and what you notice. It explores how movement and body work approaches can support your well-being, health and development.

I believe that the relationship between myself and those I work with is key to the benefit of therapy, to give time to develop trust and a sense of safety.

I intend to support those I work with to:

• Listen to their bodies
• find what needs to move, or be expressed. 
• Find what they might need to receive or let go of. 
• follow the process of what their body holds, at a pace that is right for them.

My work is based on: 

• Humanistic Counselling (Dip Coun) – skills in building relationship, communication and understanding.
• Somatic Movement (1000 hour training)
• Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy IBMT (570 hours training)
  • Embodied Anatomy – the stuff of our bodies, what is underneath the surface. 
  • Movement Repatterning – ways to find release and new pathways to move and be in the world.
  • Developmental Movement – the process we all go through from the womb to finding our way to walking and beyond. It includes a map of fundamental aspects of human movement that underpin how we find our way in the world. 
  • Authentic Movement – skills in witnessing another and tracking our experience of what we notice. 
• Clean Language – ways of asking key questions, to support someone having a closer connection to themselves, to know and explore more of what they are interested in. 
• being playful and improvising.