My approach to counselling is best described as:
Trauma-informed
Mindful of the impact that painful and overwhelming experiences may have on a person’s life and pathways to healing from them.
Experiential
Curious about the present moment experience and aspects of it that may habitually be overlooked: spontaneous flow of body sensations, feelings and thoughts, dreams, imagery, metaphor and movement.
Relational
Holding a relational view of humans – as growing, hurting and healing through relationships – and seeing therapeutic relationship as a safe container to explore our ways of relating to ourselves and to others, and to heal relational wounds.
Compassionate
Practicing a quality of being with pain and suffering with openness and kindness and encouraging clients to nurture a compassionate attitude to themselves and their pains.
Body Aware
Inviting clients to develop a kinder and more attentive relationship to their bodies, to become more present and grounded in them, and to nurture a connection with instinctive, intuition, gut.
My work is informed by experiential, relational, and person-centred counselling, trauma and attachment theories. I aspire to see people who come to see me as whole human beings who are not defined by their challenges, but hold wisdom of their experience, relationships of which they are part, and cultures to which they belong.
As counselling is a creative process meant to respond to client’s in-the-moment and long-standing needs, it looks different for everyone and might include talking, observing moment-to-moment experience in dialogue, mindful movement, being in silence, therapeutic experiments, art-making, practicing meditation and self-compassion.