My experience and vision as a therapist:

I have worked in the mental health field for 10 years, first within a research capacity and more recently as a therapist.

My early work as a research assistant set me up to be able to assess and identify complex mental health presentations including psychoses and personality disorders. As a therapist, I have worked within both the public and private sectors. This has allowed me to see clients presenting with both acute and chronic presentations ranging from mild to severe. I have also had experience working with children and families impacted by trauma within the child protection system, where I was required to support the child’s caregivers and parents to understand the negative impact trauma has had on development, and to promote healing using attachment and developmental based approaches. 

From all of these experiences, what I have found most rewarding, is the therapeutic trust and relationship developed with clients. It is a privilege for clients to be able to entrust me with their stories, experiences, challenges, and deepest thoughts, worries, and concerns. Therefore, it is my upmost priority to hold this space for my clients, and to sit with them through feelings of shame, guilt, fear, and pain, in a space that feels safe, comfortable, and respectful.

I work with a range of presentations, but my experience to date has led me to be particularly interested in supporting those impacted by developmental trauma. As humans, we are social beings, connected to others and impacted by our environment. Therefore, helping clients to unlock the impact their life experiences have had on their sense of self and relationships with others is a key way in which I like to work.

I like to utilize an integrated approach that is tailored to the unique needs of each client throughout their therapeutic journey.  Modalities  and frameworks I draw upon include:

  • CBT

  • Schema Therapy

  • Emotion Focused Therapy 

  • Attachment & Developmental Theories

  • Trauma Focused Therapies

  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy

  • Mindfulness Based Therapies