Types of Therapy

I work from an integrative perspective because I believe no two human beings are the same; therefore, one therapeutic approach cannot work for all, using a combination of the following therapy styles:

• From a relational perspective, trust and safety are the foundations for a strong therapeutic relationship, and we can work together to raise an unconscious process into conscious awareness.

• From an existential perspective, I work with my clients non-judgmentally and empathically, assuming nothing about their experiences while creating space for them to discover their own life meaning.

• From a psychoanalytic and humanistic perspective, I use attachment theory to understand how my clients’ early trauma may have affected their relationships with others. The therapeutic relationship is essential for modelling healthy and secure attachments in the present moment.

• From a transpersonal and embodied perspective, I like to work as two human bodies in a room together, carrying generations of life experience and oppression. I am also a published writer, using poetry and prose as a form of expression and narrative therapy.

• From a trauma-informed perspective, we can explore that dysregulation and dissociation are prevalent responses to complex and long-sustained trauma and underlie most psychological suffering. Therapy can open a compassionate space for greater understanding, not of what is “wrong” with you, but of what happened to you and how present difficulties — relationships, emotions, repeating patterns, symptoms or processes of memory, awareness and attention — may arise from what were once needed adaptations that made sense in the context of your life.

• Racism and racial trauma

  I work with the psychological impact of racism, racial trauma, and the cumulative toll of navigating whiteness-centred spaces and institutions. This includes experiences of code-switching, hypervigilance, racial battle fatigue, and the particular pain of not being believed or understood. My work in this area is informed by decolonial frameworks and my own published research.

Themes I work with…