"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

I approach therapy holistically, valuing your unique history and life context as we seek a balanced, fulfilling path forward.

I integrate Compassion Focused Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, the Enneagram (PDP) and Mindfulness-Based practices to support your personal development in ways that feel meaningful and natural.

While my core training is in Compassion Focused Therapy and Gestalt Therapy, I also draw from a wide range of modalities to help meet your specific needs and that also reflect my personal interests and continuing professional development. These include:

Internal Family Systems
Jungian Psychology
Transactional Analysis
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Transpersonal Psychology
IPNB - Interpersonal Neurobiology

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become”

— Carl Jung

How I work

Gestalt therapy

Gestalt Therapy is a deeply empowering, humanistic approach that encourages you to recognise your inherent resources for growth and healing. Our work may include exploring entrenched patterns, examining how past experiences shape you, and discovering new ways of engaging with yourself and the world around you.

Gestalt is a holistic and relational approach that considers mind, body, and ‘spirit’ . Together, we will explore the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of your experience of being in the world to better understand and shift unhelpful patterns. This embodied and relational approach fosters greater self-awareness and transformation.

“The purpose of the Enneagram is not to put people in boxes, but to help them find a way out of the box.”

— Don Richard Riso

Compassion Focused Therapy

Compassion Focused Therapy is an evidence-based model of psychotherapy designed to help people work with self-criticism, shame, and difficult emotions like anger. It draws on psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary understanding to strengthen the mind’s natural capacity for warmth, courage, and inner balance.

A key component of CFT is Compassionate Mind Training. CMT teaches practical skills such as soothing-breathing, compassionate imagery, and grounding techniques that help regulate the threat system and cultivate a kinder, more supportive relationship with oneself.

Together, CFT and CMT help people develop emotional resilience, increase self-acceptance, and navigate life’s challenges with greater ease and confidence.

If you’re looking to reduce self-criticism, manage overwhelming emotions, or build a more compassionate inner dialogue, these approaches offer a helpful and empowering path forward.

Enneagram / PDP

The Enneagram of personality is a map of nine interconnected and dynamic personality patterns, offering profound insight into our habitual tendencies. The Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) approach to the enneagram emphasise the importance of working with these as patterns and not as fixed types.

I incorporate the enneagram into therapy to help you understand your own personality in nuanced ways, focusing on your potential for growth.

Clinical experience has demonstrated that integrating the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram and teachings from traditions such as Buddhism and Taoism with insights from modern psychology and evidence-based research underpinned by neuroscience (PDP), can lead to a profoundly enriched understanding of the human experience and our unique role within it.

“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

Mindfulness

Mindfulness helps cultivate awareness of our thoughts, sensations and emotions, enhancing our ability to ease suffering and enrich our lives. Through mindfulness, we can strengthen the ability to focus attention, a valuable skill both in therapy and everyday life. We may integrate mindfulness exercises into our work together as a way to deepen your therapeutic journey.

With Mindfulness training and meditation practice we learn how to choose what we pay attention to and how we pay attention to it and this awareness serves as a gateway to expanding our experience of being-in-the-world.