Techniques

Tapping / Thought Matrix Meridian Therapy “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” ~ World Health Organization, 1948 As an overarching comparison, this technique utilises the structure and pre-designed formula interventions similar to Emotional Freedom Technique.  Based on the healing understandings from […]

Bilateral Stimulation Processing (from EMDR) “Fear is not a ‘mental’ problem, it’s a physiological response and you can change it.” ~ Francine Shapiro Based on the work of Francine Shapiro in the late 1980’s, this is a therapeutic modality which is rapidly gaining wider recognition among the ‘mainstream’ psychotherapeutic circles.  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and […]

Therapeutic Ritual “Ritual instructs not only at the level of intellect…  but also at the level of the soul.” ~ Mark Pedelty Traditional cultures have long held the understanding of the healing capacity of therapeutic ritual.  The nature of this work is to directly engage with the unconscious mind, using it’s kind of language… symbol, […]

Dreamwork “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.”  ~ Marsha Norman Our nightly dreams are one of the main ways we can access the impulses and wisdom of the deep Self.  The way I treat client’s dreams is respectful and specific to the individual.  I don’t believe that a broad […]

Working With Parts “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest […]

Hypnotherapy and Trance work “You use hypnosis not as a cure, but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.” ~ Milton Erikson I practice a style of hypnotherapy based on the indirect, metaphorical techniques of Milton Erikson.  A state of hypnotic trance exists in many different forms in everyday life. […]

Creative Therapy “The object of therapeutic treatment is to return imagination to the things that have become only physical.” ~ Sardello Our modern Western culture is a primarily left brain society where thinking, analysing, deducing are all promoted as the best way to solve a problem or develop the self.  While the linear functions of our […]

Working with Archetypes “Within the affliction is a complex, within the complex an archetype, which in turn refers to a god/goddess… by reverting the pathology to a god, we recognise the divinity within the pathology and give the god his/her due.” ~     James Hillman The understandings of the collective unconscious and the archetypes contained therein […]

Chakra Work “What we feel, think and are is, to a great extent, determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”  ~ Aldous Huxley Developmental trauma is addressed theoretically and practically through the Eastern understanding of the Chakra system as a therapeutic approach. This form of healing combines the age-old wisdom of the […]