Relational Somatic Psychotherapy
Is a wholistic approach that combines somatic (body-based) practices with relational psychotherapy, emphasizing the impact of relationships—both past and present—on your mental, emotional & relationship health and on your body and nervous system. This includes how these experiences shape your relationship with yourself and relationship with others, your protective/survival responses and the parts of you that were developed to adapt.
Here, we uncover & understand the repetitive beliefs, themes & patterns that show up in your life & relationships. We explore how your experiences, trauma and attachment wounds are stored in mind and in body, influencing posture, movement, and nervous system responses.
We will use mindfulness-based practices - such as breath & grounding - to explore present moment experiences, reestablish your connection & relationship with your body & to understand the sensations, feelings, memories & wisdom inherent there. We will develop resources tailored to you to manage & integrate emotional & physical stress/distress, increase emotional regulation and your ability to be present with feelings, memories & symptoms and decrease responses to triggers. This allows you to become increasingly embodied, present & connected to yourself, others & the world around you. It helps to create strong, intimate and connecting relationships.
Sex Therapy
I combine sex therapy models with relational somatic methods to address the emotional, bodily, societal & relational aspects that contribute to sexual challenges. We may explore disconnections to yourself &/or in your relationship, understand & heal the impact of sexual trauma, shame, and (re)establish connections to your body, your needs, ways you experience pleasure, feel sexy, or how to communicate this to others. In relationship sessions, we do this with everyone involved to help build satisfaction, connection, intimacy, understanding & communication.
For physical or physiological challenges, I also offer practical & interventional strategies. This may include anatomy & physiology teaching, STI/health teaching and destigmatising, pelvic exercise, use of dilators or vacuum erection pump, referrals to specialists & other interventions specific to you. Physical or physiological components include ED, vaginismus, vulvodynia and many other diagnoses.
I use empowerment based frameworks to explore whatever it is you bring here to work through and a whole lot of gentleness & curiosity through this vulnerable work!
Money & Financial Therapy
I address the impacts of mental health, emotions, relationships & trauma on our relationship to finances and money, and visa-vera like experiencing money trauma that negatively impacts our health. How are unconscious money beliefs & scripts impacts of financial health. (Im currently re-writing this section - please check back soon & look at my ‘Sex & Money Sessions’ page as this is how I work with clients too!)
Click here for Relationship Therapy with me (also known as Couples Therapy)
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My practice is grounded in the frameworks of intersectional feminism, anti-oppression, queer theory & harm/risk reduction. I am body positive & anti-racist. I recognise & attend to the ways that power & marginalisation affect personal & societal well being & connection/disconnection.