My Offerings
After more than twenty years specialising in trauma, attachment and nervous system intelligence, I help people uncover and change the patterns shaping their experience. Through deep listening, nervous system support, embodied practice and relational presence, we explore and shift long-standing cycles of anxiety, overwhelm, disconnection or stuckness, while developing capacities that may never have had the chance to fully emerge. We listen for the deeper yearnings of what is asking to be lived and co-create the conditions for new possibilities.
Somatic Psychotherapy
What It Is
Most traditional therapies focus on counteracting symptoms—trying to ‘settle’ anxiety or logically dismantle a pattern. This work is transformational: we work at the level of the brainstem, mid-brain and the nervous system to shift the foundational scaffolding of how feel yourself and meet the world. These sessions provide a warm and sturdy container to attend to the patterns that keep you stuck, using deep listening and the cultivation of new pathways to reach the places that talk therapy often misses.
Who It’s For
Somatic Psychotherapy is for people looking for a supportive, steady space in which to be with and understand themselves more deeply and make meaningful change. It’s for those who have already tried ‘talk therapy’ and sense that insight is rarely enough.
Focus Areas
People come to therapy for many different reasons. Anxiety, panic, compulsive behaviour, phobias and depression can sometimes be understood as responses to PTSD or developmental trauma. Others arrive with unprocessed grief, relationship or attachment difficulties, or while moving through a significant life transition and needing more support.
Sometimes the longing is simpler and deeper: to feel more comfortable in the home of the body; to have a compassionate, steady space for reflection; to tend more fully to one’s inner life; or to meet oneself, relationships and life in new ways.
Modalities
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Havening Techniques™, Body-Mind Centering®, and Soul Centred Psychotherapy.
Format
I offer sessions online and in-person in Torquay Victoria.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
DBR offers a gentle, contained way of working with trauma and attachment shock without requiring you to revisit your history or retell your story. We work in the present with processes that precede thought and narrative, allowing you to stay in the driver’s seat as we explore what has previously felt overwhelming, frightening or even unknown.
Collaborations & Facilitation
I partner with practitioners, studios, and retreat leaders to bring more embodiment and aliveness to their programs. I offer specialised facilitation that encourages participants and fellow therapists to "get out of the chair" and into more dynamic, easeful, and expressive ways of working.
Guest facilitation for retreats and festivals, somatic education for practitioners, and custom workshop modules.
Retreats & Festivals
Somatic Education for Practitioners
Custom Workshops
