There’s intelligence in your trauma.
We’ll work with it. Not against it.
Many experiences that bring people to therapy once helped them cope, stay connected, or survive difficult circumstances.
Even when those patterns now feel limiting or painful, they hold information about what mattered, what was needed, and what wasn’t available at the time.
In our work together, we take these responses seriously. Rather than trying to override or correct them, we listen closely to thoughts, emotions, and the body’s wisdom.
By cultivating deep safety, we create the conditions for change to unfold in a way that feels steady and sustainable.
a safe healing space
Feeling safe in a counselling space can’t be rushed or taken for granted. For people impacted by relational trauma or chronic stress, safety’s often been inconsistent, conditional, or totally absent. So it may not come easily.
In our work, we pay close attention to what helps your nervous system settle and what makes you brace. That might mean slowing the pace, staying with the present moment a bit longer, or noticing subtle shifts in your body or feelings.
Safety in this space is relational. It emerges from being truly heard, having your boundaries respected, and moving at a pace that honours where you’re at.
Over time, a growing feeling of security can invite your system to relax, opening the door to deeper exploration.
“What I treasure most is the sense of space that opens up in our sessions. It’s never twice the same, but it generally has qualities of solidness, openness, and calm. Also, of belonging to me in a very natural, unforced way. Like I’m at home in our sessions. ”
feel deeply heard
Many come to counselling carrying deep-seated experiences of feeling unseen, unheard, or misunderstood.
Being heard isn’t just about having space to talk. It’s about having your experience received with care and reflected with accuracy.
I listen closely to both what you’re saying and what’s often unspoken. With mindful presence, I notice tone, emotions, pauses, and bodily shifts. This lets meaning emerge gradually, rather than being rushed or interpreted too quickly.
Feeling genuinely heard can create space for patterns to get clearer, self-criticism to soften, and new understanding to take shape. It’s a foundation for collaborative and respectful change.
“When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on.”
Healing happens in relationship
Many challenges people bring to counselling come from relationships; through experiences of closeness, distance, conflict and loss. So, it makes sense that healing also often unfolds in relationship.
Our work together is shaped by the real, human connection between us. Patterns from elsewhere in your life may show up in the therapeutic relationship where they can be noticed with curiosity and care, not judgment.
This makes space for different relational experiences where you feel met, understood, and responded to in new ways.
Over time, these experiences can help shift how you relate to yourself and others. The relationship becomes a place where trust increases, boundaries get explored, and new patterns of connection can take root.
a mindful approach
My approach is deeply informed by mindfulness, which offers practical tools for noticing and relating to inner experiences in new ways.
Mindfulness can help slow things down, bring awareness to the present moment and offer more choice in how we respond to thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations.
It’s also something I actively embody in the work. While fully attuned to you, I bring close attention to my own inner experience. I track my thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations so I can stay grounded, responsive, and fully present with you.
Mindfulness supports this work in both how we explore your experience and how I remain present in the relationship.
listening to the body
Most of what shapes our lives is held in our bodies. That’s why I include a mindfulness-based somatic approach to exploring the embodied roots of personal challenges.
I invite simple mindfulness practices that bring gentle, attuned attention to bodily experience. This might include noticing sensations, impulses, or patterns of tension, always at a pace that feels respectful and manageable.
Rather than trying to change or analyze what we find, I invite an attitude of allowing; of letting sensations be present without pushing them away or holding on too tightly. In this way, the body becomes a source of information rather than a problem to solve.
Often, when we meet difficulties with awareness and care, they begin to shift on their own.
“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. ”
trauma-transformative
Trauma-informed practice has built the foundation of therapeutic work. It prioritizes safety, choice, collaboration, and awareness of lived experiences of trauma. This approach minimizes harm and supports people to feel more respected and understood.
A trauma-transformative approach takes it beyond accommodation and awareness, supporting conditions that let trauma shift over time. We work with the nervous system, relationship, meaning, making, and embodied experience to both honour the past and invite new possibilities for living in the present.
That means we hold both care and possibility. We prioritize safety and consent, while watching for moments when something new wants to show up: a different response, a softened pattern, or a growing sense of agency.
Transformation isn’t forced and need not be dramatic. We allow it to unfold gradually, through presence, relationship, care and deep attention.
what’s possible
With time, care and commitment, this work can open space for meaningful shifts in how you relate to yourself and others.