Psychotherapy. What is most important to you?

Psychotherapy with me offers space for a collaborative enquiry over a short or longer period. It provides support both for addressing pressing concerns and, longer-term, for looking at intentions and desires for a fuller and more fulfilled life. We can, with my background and training, include body-work in order for you to experience better balance and greater relaxation. The corollary here is that improved mental wellbeing can help alleviate ailments and secondary symptoms from physical illness.

I am familiar with working with trauma and the ‘stuckness’ that can result. I can and do work ‘online’ via Zoom.

I also work with the assumption that the climate and ecological crisis affects us all at some level; we can, therefore, embrace ‘ecotherapy’ in our work together.

Touch for Health Kinesiology: the Flow of Life

Kinesiology as a form of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) uses muscle monitoring or ‘checking’ to get ‘biofeedback’, by way of evaluating information about energy circuits in the body. Touch for Health Kinesiology is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Here, a range of non-invasive, fine-tuning types of touch are employed to harmonise imbalances of the chi meridians and their acupuncture points.

We call a session a ‘balance’, usually linked to a goal or intention that you bring, with the aim of improving health, posture, energy, coordination and relieving pain. Unlike other forms of physical therapy, rather than correct tension or overcharge, we support and stimulate weaker muscles and under-energised circuits, allowing the body’s inner wisdom and innate healing power to restore equilibrium and poise.

In this way, Touch for Health Kinesiology is truly holistic, encompassing psychological, biochemical and structural/physical functioning and well-being. In a session or ‘balance’ you are encouraged to be an active participant, in that way gaining both self-knowledge and tools you can use as self-help techniques to maintain health.

Systemic Constellations.

Although best known for exploring family dynamics, systemic constellations are also a powerful tool for examining any and all of our important relationships in life, including our relationship with Nature.

Constellations can represent or map other wider systems such as organisations, and, for example, the hidden stories and influences of systemic racism, colonialism or the gender divide.  They form part of my Men’s work. This is deep soul work that directly reaches the parts that other practices can approach only slowly or rarely.

Systemic Constellations can reveal the undercurrents of our lives, the undertows that sometimes take us to places where we do not want to be, or where we are unwell or feel unsafe.