SERVICES
Trauma-focused therapy that goes beyond understanding alone
People come to therapy for many different reasons. You may be struggling with anxiety, traumatic experiences, relationship difficulties, shame, feeling not good enough, or patterns you understand intellectually but still find difficult to change.
Sometimes the connection to earlier experiences is obvious. At other times, you may find yourself thinking, “Nothing really happened to me,” while still wondering why certain situations, emotions or relationships affect you so strongly.
My approach is based on the understanding that our difficulties often make sense when we explore what happened to us, what we needed but may not have received, and the ways we learned to adapt, cope and maintain connection.
While talking and understanding your story are important, insight alone does not always change how we feel. I use an integrative, trauma-focused approach that works with the emotional, relational, physiological and nervous-system responses that can continue long after the original experiences have passed.
My main therapeutic approach is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), including Attachment-Informed EMDR. I also draw on somatic psychotherapy, IFS-informed parts work, Resource Therapy and therapeutic breathing techniques, tailoring therapy to you rather than expecting you to fit a particular therapeutic model.
Understanding how past experiences can continue to shape how you feel today.
Complex trauma does not always come from one clearly identifiable event. It can develop through repeated experiences of abuse, neglect, fear, instability or emotional disconnection, particularly within the relationships where we should have felt safest.
Sometimes trauma is also about what didn’t happen. The absence of safety, affection, protection, reassurance or emotional connection can shape how we learn to see ourselves and relate to others.
These experiences can later show up as anxiety, shame, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting, emotional disconnection, relationship difficulties or a persistent feeling of not being good enough.
Inner Strength Therapy
Helping process painful memories and experiences that remain unresolved.
EMDR is a trauma-focused psychotherapy that can help process experiences that continue to affect how you feel and respond in the present.
We may understand intellectually that something happened in the past, yet our emotions and body can continue to react as though some part of the experience is still happening.
I use EMDR and Attachment-Informed EMDR, particularly when working with trauma, difficult childhood experiences and attachment-related wounds. The aim is not to erase what happened, but to help those experiences become more fully processed and integrated so they have less influence over your present life.
Understanding and changing the patterns that shape how you connect with others.
Our relationships can bring some of our greatest experiences of connection and belonging, but they can also activate some of our deepest fears and vulnerabilities.
Earlier experiences of safety, affection, trust and emotional connection can influence how we experience relationships as adults. These patterns may appear as people-pleasing, fear of rejection or abandonment, difficulty trusting, problems with intimacy, losing yourself in relationships or withdrawing when closeness feels unsafe.
Therapy can help you understand where these patterns came from, work with the experiences that shaped them, and develop ways of relating that allow for greater connection while remaining connected to yourself.