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Working with a therapist-coach you get the best of both worlds. You get to work on present goals and develop specific plans to move your life forwards. But,  when you get get stuck on the actioning part, which is often the case, you get to do a therapeutic deep-dive into the past.
And you feel safe to do that because you know I’m a trained therapist who has many years of experience working with very traumatised clients.

First pubished in Elephant Journal in September 2017 A woman perched on a grey sofa screams at her therapist. The room has a large window that looks out on blue sky and sunshine. “I’ve been coming here all these years and I’m still not ok. You’re the expert with all the training! Why haven’t you […]

Edited and first published by Elephant Journal. “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.They may not mean to, but they doThey fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you.” ~ Philip Larkin, “This Be The Verse”   Some clients arrive for their first therapy session skeptical, worried, or downright […]

Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic approach created by Richard. C. Schwartz that works well with both EMDR and Gestalt Therapy. It explains that we all have different parts, for example a happy part, an anxious part, a sad part. Jacob Moreno, the founder of psychodrama first refers to the ‘parts’ of us. Sometimes our […]