Couple Therapy and Art Therapy in Lewes Sussex.

Welcome to my therapy practice

I have worked in the field of personal development for over
20 years; as a counsellor/psychotherapist in private practice,
as a mindfulness trainer, offering courses to the
general public and within mental health settings, and
in group process facilitation within organisations

Relational work has always been my passion, and I now
work exclusively with couples.

The strong evidence base of attachment-informed therapies
has been a major influence on the trainings I have undertaken.

As an experientially informed therapist, I understand
first-hand the challenges of navigating the complexity of
emotional triggering in relationship.

My integrative approach is committed to supporting couples to
heal from painful and unresolved wounds of the past in order to
flourish, individually and relationally, in the present.

Why Couple Therapy

Couples come for therapy for many different reasons.
On visiting this page, is it possible that you have reached
a point in your relationship where you and your partner
feel unable to address the issues between you?

Do you need the support of an impartial other to hold
a therapeutic space in a way that feels safe, supportive
and encourages communication that is adult,
non-reactive and compassionate?

Holding a safe space to explore your relationship

My role as therapist is to support you to explore your
relationship in a safe, sensitive and non-judgmental way.

I will help you to develop the skill and capacity to remain
centred, open and present to the feelings that arise within
and between you. I will encourage you to explore, with
sensitivity, compassion and respect, the emotions that
are creating such painful disconnection.

Our work will help you to develop the awareness to
understand the dynamics at play that have brought you to
this point, and the ways in which you both may have
contributed to the relationship breakdown.

This is not to apportion blame but to enable you to assume
a greater sense of personal responsibility and choice in your
range of responses. This includes connecting in a more curious
and compassionate way towards yourself and your partner.

This process of softening and opening will support you to
explore and understand the blocks, fears and longings that you
have been unable to acknowledge and share together.

The breakdown of intimate relationships often generates a
number of intense and painful feelings ranging from fear,
anger, distress, hurt, sadness, numbing, guilt and shame.

When our attachment bond is threatened with our
significant other, this is described as, ‘primal panic’ by
neuroscientist, Jaak Panksepp, of Washington State University.

For me, the beauty of integrating IFIO with EFT is its power
in supporting us to develop a self-regulating, wise and
compassionate relationship with our internal experience,
in addition to a loving and co-regulating relationship
with our partner.

IFIO and EFT are beautifully complementary in service
of healing, connection and love.

Why Couple Therapy

Holding a safe space to explore your relationship

My role as therapist is to support you to explore your
relationship in a safe, sensitive and non-judgmental way.

I will help you to develop the skill and capacity to remain
centred, open and present to the feelings that arise within
and between you. I will encourage you to explore, with
sensitivity, compassion and respect, the emotions that
are creating such painful disconnection.

Our work will help you to develop the awareness to
understand the dynamics at play that have brought you to
this point, and the ways in which you both may have
contributed to the relationship breakdown.

This is not to apportion blame but to enable you to assume
a greater sense of personal responsibility and choice in your range of responses. This includes connecting in a more curious and compassionate way towards yourself and your partner.

This process of softening and opening will support you to
explore and understand the blocks, fears and longings that you have been unable to acknowledge and share together.

The breakdown of intimate relationships often generates a
number of intense and painful feelings ranging from fear,
anger, distress, hurt, sadness, numbing, guilt and shame.

Trainings and Qualifications

Counselling/Psychotherapy

BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist
Certified Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist (EFCT)
Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist (IFS)
Intimacy From The Inside Out Couple Therapist (IFIO)
Certified Mindfulness Trainer (MBSR & MBCT)
Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling
(Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, Person Centred)
Certificate in Contextual Couple Counselling
2-Year Master Practitioner Diploma in FIRO Theory
(Fundamental Interpersonal Relationships Orientation)

7-year apprenticeship in group process facilitation with
Learning Edge Consulting; trainers in The Human Element®
Programme and distributors of FIRO® Instruments

EMDR

Parts 1-3
Attachment Informed EMDR (A-I-EMDR) Part 1
A-I-EMDR Part 2 - Intergenerational Trauma, Parts and Dreams
A-I-EMDR Working with Parts
A-I-EMDR with Couples
IFS Informed EMDR
Soma in EMDR
The Flash Technique & EMDR

Mindfulness Trainings

Certified Mindfulness Trainer in MBCT & MBSR
(Mindfulness based Stress Reduction)
(Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy)

10-year supervised Teacher Training Pathway with
Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice,
Bangor University

Teaching Presence in Relationship
with Metta and Oasis Institute, USA

Advanced Teacher Training in Mindfulness
for Health with Breathworks, Manchester

Professional Memberships

British Association for Counselling
and Psychotherapy (BACP)

The International Centre For Exellence
in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)

British Emotionally Focused
Therapy Centre (BEFT)

I adhere to the Good Practice Guidelines
and Ethical Frameworks of the above
membership organisations.

My work is supervised by registered
and authorised supervisors of
the above membership organisations.

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