Alongside listening to your background and what has led you to me, I like to view my clients (adults and young people) through a holistic lens and have a very keen interest in how the likes of screens, sleep, exercise, connecting to nature, nutrition, toxicity, the breath, and gut /oral health affects us emotionally. I have close links with practitioners locally (or further afield) who specialise in supporting people’s physical and emotional health naturally either through yoga, herbalism, homeopathy, massage, breathwork and kinesiology to name but a few.  It can often be very helpful to combine the therapy sessions with support from one or several of these other modalities or we can just spend some time considering how your emotions may be being affected by other lifestyle/ environmental factors.

In 2013 I set up a service for families affected by Domestic Abuse for a local, Cornwall wide charity and ran it for nearly 4 years. This means I have very specialist experience in working with the effects of Abuse, Neglect and Childhood Trauma. My most recent training was in a family therapy called Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP). It was developed by an American psychologist called Dan Hughes and I became certified in this approach in 2023. DDP is for adults who have relationship difficulties with their children and my work with Parents/Carers alone, with their child together (Dyadic) or in Therapeutic Group Work Programmes is informed by this therapy. A broader term for the dyadic word is Attachment Focused Family Therapy (AFFT) and it is suitable for birth, adoptive or foster parents and for special guardians.

​

In my 15 years of practice, I’ve found that my therapy clients are generally experiencing one or more of the below, so if you are too, you are far from alone.