My interest in health and healing began age 14 when I started practising yoga, first from a library book, and then at a local yoga class that I attended with my mum and my sister.
In my early thirties I qualified as an Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist from the London Academy of Oriental Medicine. Currently, I specialise in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Somatic based therapies such as Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting and Craniosacral Therapy (CST). My focus is on helping you to engage with and awaken the natural and innate healing abilities of the mind and body. I have particular interest in helping people identify and transform the blocks that obstruct their movement towards mental, emotional and physical wellness and wellbeing.
I use Craniosacral therapy, IFS, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting either separately or integrated together, as a way to enable you to enter into a healing dialogue with mind and body. The physical and emotional stresses that are within us have or have had a purpose, and often a story to tell. The more we can listen to and engage with curiosity and compassion into our "issues" or mind body symptoms, the more likely we are to find the way back to wellness.
I believe our thoughts, feelings and emotions are intricately entwined within the body as a somatic ‘felt-sense’. You cannot approach one without having an impact on the others, for they are inseparable.
I live in South Devon and my spare time is often spent mountain biking or listening to vinyl on my ever evolving vintage hifi system!
Qualifications
IFS Levels 1, 2 and 3
Somatic ExperiencingPractitioner
Brainspotting -(Phase 1 & 2) - From Freeze to Thaw: Unlocking Trauma in the body with Brainspotting -Expansion Brainspotting
Four Blinks Flash Technique Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) with Janina Fisher - Level 1 and 2
Diploma Craniosacral Therapy (College of Cranio-sacral Therapy)
Clinical Certificate in Acupuncture (Nanjing, China) 1997
Diploma in Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture 1996
BSc (Hons) Environmental Science
CPD Courses:
The Science and Practice of Embodying Emotions - Online Training with Raja Selvam Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain and Syndromes (online training with Peter Levine and Diane Poole Heller)
Pre and Perinatal Trauma training with Raja Selvam
Somatic IFS with Susan McConnell Treating Complex Trauma with IFS Program Assistant on Level 1 IFS trainings