"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

I approach therapy holistically, valuing your unique history and life context as we seek a balanced, fulfilling path forward.

I integrate Gestalt psychotherapy, the Enneagram, and Mindfulness-Based practices to support your personal development in ways that feel meaningful and natural.

While my core training is in Gestalt therapy, I also draw from a wide range of modalities to help meet your specific needs and that also reflect my personal interests and continuing professional development. These include:

Compassion Focused Therapy
Internal Family Systems
Jungian Psychology
Transactional Analysis
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Transpersonal Psychology
IPNB - Interpersonal Neurobiology

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become”

— Carl Jung

How I work

Gestalt therapy

Gestalt Therapy is a deeply empowering, humanistic approach that encourages you to recognize your inherent resources for growth and healing. Our work may include exploring entrenched patterns, examining how past experiences shape you, and discovering new ways of engaging with yourself and the world around you.

Gestalt is a holistic approach that considers mind, body, and spirit. Together, we will explore the mental, emotional, and physical aspects of your experience to better understand and shift unhelpful patterns. This embodied and relational approach fosters greater self-awareness and transformation.

“The purpose of the Enneagram is not to put people in boxes, but to help them find a way out of the box.”

— Don Richard Riso

Coaching

Sometimes, a more practical and goal-oriented approach to well-being is necessary. Coaching focuses on identifying and implementing actionable changes in your environment, habits, and daily life that can create a significant positive impact. Recognizing that we are deeply affected by the spaces, relationships, and systems we engage with, coaching helps to address these external factors to foster growth and well-being.

My two years of experience in the public health sector, particularly in social prescribing, has informed my coaching approach. This work emphasized the importance of making practical adjustments to enhance social and workplace life. Together, we can explore strategies to support meaningful change, whether that involves improving your work-life balance, building healthier relationships, or finding ways to create a more supportive and enriching life space.

Coaching complements deeper therapeutic work by providing tools and strategies to address immediate challenges and lay the foundation for sustainable, long-term well-being.

Enneagram

The enneagram of personality is a map of nine interconnected and dynamic personality patterns, offering profound insight into our habitual tendencies. I incorporate the enneagram into therapy to help you understand your own personality in nuanced ways, focusing on your potential for growth and ways to loosen its tight grip. The enneagram can be used as a tool in therapy or as a standalone path of psychological and transpersonal development.

Clinical experience has demonstrated that integrating the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram and teachings from traditions such as Buddhism and Taoism with insights from modern psychology and evidence-based research, underpinned by neuroscience, can lead to a profoundly enriched understanding of the human experience and our unique role within it.

“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

Mindfulness

Mindfulness helps cultivate awareness of our thoughts, sensations and emotions, enhancing our ability to ease suffering and enrich our lives. Through mindfulness, we can strengthen the ability to focus attention, a valuable skill both in therapy and everyday life. We may integrate mindfulness exercises into our work together as a way to deepen your therapeutic journey.

With Mindfulness training and meditation practice we learn how to choose what we pay attention to and how we pay attention to it and this awareness serves as a gateway to expanding our experience of being-in-the-world.