Two Orange Dogs Therapy

I have worked for nearly two decades in mental health and social care research talking to people about their feelings of anxiety, depression, suicidal feelings, PTSD. Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent my career talking to people receiving mental health and social care to help more people to find the kind of support that works best for them in their uniqueness. Many of the people I have worked with have been in challenging transitional stages of their lives, like leaving care or prison. As a psychotherapist I love to work alongside people who are facing challenges in their lives and to work together to support them to move towards a greater sense of flourishing and wellness. 

I use a Core Process Psychotherapy approach. This combines the wisdom of Eastern and Western Psychology, drawing on mindfulness, Buddhism, and contemporary psychotherapeutic theories. It is a Mindfulness-based and embodied awareness approach that meets the wholeness of the person, including their thinking-, bodily-, and emotional-life. The starting point in therapy is that you are at your core healthy and whole. What we work with together in psychotherapy are the parts of you and your way of relating to others and the world that can hide or cloud over your inherent goodness and health.

Internal Family Systems is an approach with a strong and evolving evidence base. It sees us as multiplicitous beings, with a complex and rich internal world populated by parts or sub-personalities, each with their own beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of the world. Working to better get to know these parts frees up joy, spontaneity, creativity, connection, and love in your life.

If you would like to get to know yourself better; if you would like to have an active and engaged therapist guide you to work with care, compassion, and clarity with your inner system of parts; if you would like to become more whole and integrated: then this approach may be a good fit for you.

Working using the IFS model delights and astonishes me in the beauty of the client-therapist collaboration it supports and the depth of the change it enables for clients over a short period of time.