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 back in the early 1980's.
In my early thirties I qualified as an Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist from the 4 year long Diploma at the London Academy of Oriental Medicine.
I specialise in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Somatic/Process 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, to uncover the inherent health and life force that is already within you.
I integrate IFS, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting, as a way to enable you to enter into a healing dialogue with mind and body. This dialogue is sometimes explicit (spoken and communicated) and always implicit (occurring more quietly, energetically, inside the deep parts of the nervous systems) in the work. 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 (especially through the body as a felt-sense) 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. The body, mind and nervous system know how to heal, this a foundational trust that permeates all of my work.
I believe our thoughts, feelings, emotions, traumas, creativity and gifts are all intricately entwined within the body often 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!
In my early thirties I qualified as an Acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist from the 4 year long Diploma at the London Academy of Oriental Medicine.
I specialise in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Somatic/Process 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, to uncover the inherent health and life force that is already within you.
I integrate IFS, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting, as a way to enable you to enter into a healing dialogue with mind and body. This dialogue is sometimes explicit (spoken and communicated) and always implicit (occurring more quietly, energetically, inside the deep parts of the nervous systems) in the work. 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 (especially through the body as a felt-sense) 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. The body, mind and nervous system know how to heal, this a foundational trust that permeates all of my work.
I believe our thoughts, feelings, emotions, traumas, creativity and gifts are all intricately entwined within the body often 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 Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Brainspotting - (Phase 1 & 2)
-Brainspotting Intensive with Mark Grixti
- From Freeze to Thaw: Unlocking Trauma in the body with Brainspotting
-Expansion Brainspotting with Lisa Larson
- Masterclass with David Grand
- Performance Generation Brainspotting with Alessia Bruno
- Free to Perform Brainspotting with Ruth Chiles
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Four Blinks Flash Technique
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) with Janina Fisher - Level 1 and 2
Diploma Craniosacral Therapy (College of Cranio-sacral Therapy)
Visceral Manipulation 1 (Abdominal 1) 2010
Integrated Myofascial Therapy Level 1 & Level 2, 2008
Yoga Teacher Training Diploma (DSY) 2003
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
IFS and Shame 2020
Trauma Skills for Body Workers Certificate 2019
Yoga Nidra for Trauma Certificate 2019
Abdominal- Sacral Massage Practitioner Cert. 2010
Myofascial Release (MFR) Foundation 2007
IFS - Levels 1, 2 and 3
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Brainspotting - (Phase 1 & 2)
-Brainspotting Intensive with Mark Grixti
- From Freeze to Thaw: Unlocking Trauma in the body with Brainspotting
-Expansion Brainspotting with Lisa Larson
- Masterclass with David Grand
- Performance Generation Brainspotting with Alessia Bruno
- Free to Perform Brainspotting with Ruth Chiles
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Four Blinks Flash Technique
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) with Janina Fisher - Level 1 and 2
Diploma Craniosacral Therapy (College of Cranio-sacral Therapy)
Visceral Manipulation 1 (Abdominal 1) 2010
Integrated Myofascial Therapy Level 1 & Level 2, 2008
Yoga Teacher Training Diploma (DSY) 2003
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
IFS and Shame 2020
Trauma Skills for Body Workers Certificate 2019
Yoga Nidra for Trauma Certificate 2019
Abdominal- Sacral Massage Practitioner Cert. 2010
Myofascial Release (MFR) Foundation 2007