Sal Campbell

I'm a nonbinary and transmasculine queer, with a history as a butch dyke.  I've been part of lesbian, gay, queer and trans communities for most of my life, and am intersectional in my politics and values. I am affirmative of trans, sex-work, kink, neurodiverse and fat experience, and include an intersectional, antiracist, systemic perspective on how power and privilege affects who we are and how we feel.

As a therapist, I take an 'integrative' approach, means we might work differently depending on what you need, drawing from humanistic, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed nervous-system regulatory approaches among others. We might reflect on our relationship in the present, consider the influence of the past and your early relationships, or address unprocessed trauma held in the body, sometimes originating from intergenerational wounds passed down.

I also include a transpersonal and existential perspective, which takes the view that we are more than just what's happened to us, and sees our wounds not only as problems, but as portals to empowerment, wisdom and meaning. As Jung says, ‘everything belongs’. Even our painful experiences are part of what shapes us, and even our shadow sides, parts of ourselves we don’t like, are a necessary part of our wholeness. 

As well as a qualified therapist, I've also been a meditation and mindfulness practitioner for almost two decades. Such practices can offer both wisdom and compassion but also ways of bypassing the pain and necessary healing of unaddressed psychological and emotional wounds. Instead, I take a soulful perspective, looking for meaning in the descent into our wounding and bringing together the expansiveness of a spiritual perspective with the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary life.