My work as a psychotherapist is constantly evolving. The original ground was the psychodynamic tradition and its interest in the unconscious. This, overtime, naturally led to an interest in psycho-spiritual integration.

Because every person’s adaptation to their life experience is unique to them I like to, together, create a therapeutic map that fits with already known strengths and other parts that might be available for change, or open to the simple recognition of an effortless stillness that is always here. I draw from a range of body-centered trauma processing techniques that help undo survival strategies that hold a sense of a seperate self in place – sensorimotor psychotherapy, internal family systems and EMDR.

I like how Mark Epstein, a New York therapist and long-term meditator, recently put it, “Buddhist contemplation is a kind of therapy, after all; it’s whole orientation is toward relieving people of needless self-inflicted psychological suffering. And psychotherapy, like meditation, is, at base, an inquiry into the nature of self. The more you examine your experience, the more mysterious, and, elusive the self becomes”.

"My first impulse is to find something to love, something heroic, something recognisbable as the gift and the burden of the human condition, the pain and grace that;s there to find in everyone you meet.."
Ron Kurtz, Founder of Hakomi Therapy