How I work

Most people I work with already understand themselves well. They’ve often done therapy before, read widely, and can describe their patterns clearly — but understanding doesn’t always translate into change. The patterns shaped by stress and difficult experience tend to live at a level that insight alone doesn’t reach.

The work focuses on how the past shows up in the present — in the body, in relationships, in reactions that fire before you notice them.

How it usually unfolds

Early on, the work is more grounded and structured. People often arrive feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in patterns they understand but can’t shift. We slow things down enough to notice what’s actually happening underneath the familiar explanations.

That might mean:

• noticing recurring emotional and relational patterns;
• seeing how stress shows up in the body;
• recognising strategies that once helped you cope — over-functioning, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, hyper-independence;
• building steadiness, so the work stays manageable;
• finding language for things that have never quite been put into words.

As trust builds, we can work at a different depth — staying with experiences as they arise rather than only analysing them, and noticing how old strategies still shape present relationships. This phase tends to feel slower, more embodied, less about solving problems and more about a steadier, freer relationship with yourself.

What shapes my approach

My background is in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic work and in EMDR, with further training in somatic and trance-based approaches. These inform how I work — how I listen, how I track what’s happening in the body, how I understand the way early experience keeps shaping the present. They’re the lens I work through, not a menu of treatments.

Pace

I don’t think deep work is possible without enough internal steadiness — but I also don’t think you need months of preparation before anything meaningful can happen. In practice we work in layers, at a pace that keeps difficult material workable rather than overwhelming.

I pay close attention to whether the pace is too fast or too slow. If you leave consistently flooded or shut down, we’re moving too quickly. If it starts to feel like circling the same ground without change, we’re likely moving too slowly. The aim is to work at the edge of what feels meaningful while staying within what’s manageable — not catharsis for its own sake, and not endless analysis. Steady, durable change.

Getting in touch

The work happens online. If something here resonates, you’re welcome to reach out — to ask a question, explore working together, or for a referral.