As a Dance Movement Psychotherapist, I offer a safe, creative space to reflect on life’s challenges in a supported environment. I draw on psychodynamic, humanistic, integrative, creative arts, and Jungian approaches to psychotherapy.
I aim to help clients to better understand themselves, their experiences, emotions, and relationships, to explore possibilities for personal development and improve wellbeing. My work is grounded in talking and movement, and I may also bring in other modalities to help you to connect with your thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Dance experience is not necessary.
My clinical experience spans working in primary schools, a children’s mental health charity, a Community Interest Company (CIC) for women, in a Young Offenders Institute (YOI) organised by CAMHS and in an acute mental health setting in the NHS. I have helped children, young people and adults and can work with a wide range of difficulties including depression and anxiety, complex trauma, loss, bereavement, neurodivergence, disability and life changes.
I hold an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Foundations of Analytical Psychology. I have professional membership with the Association of Dance Movement Psychotherapy (ADMP UK) and am currently working towards full clinical membership with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I have a BA Hons in Spanish. My background is in education, and from this I bring listening skills and empathy.
I am also a practitioner of The BodyMind Approach (TBMA). TBMA helps people experiencing Bodily Distress Disorder (BDD), a term used to address disorders with medically unexplained symptoms. As such, we may work with movement, writing, mark-making, or collage to help a client learn to self-manage symptom distress.
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