Counselling Approach
I take a holistic, integrative approach to counselling, tailoring each session to your unique needs. My work is primarily rooted in somatic therapy, helping you reconnect with your body and nervous system to access deeper patterns and experiences. From there, we bring in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and other evidence-based tools to foster insight, clarity, and lasting change.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is body-based, focusing on the connection between mind and body. Emotional experiences like anxiety, trauma, or stress can get held in the body, often showing up as tension or physical sensations.
Through gentle exercises such as movement, breathwork, or meditation, we explore these connections and release trapped emotions. This work helps you build a sense of safety and trust within your body—creating a strong foundation for deeper healing.
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Whereas somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your nervous system and establish safety in your body, CBT is a talk-based therapy that focuses on thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Our minds naturally get caught in unhelpful or repetitive thought patterns, which can heighten emotions like anxiety, sadness, or frustration, and behaviours like avoidance or self-isolation.
CBT helps you transform these patterns, fostering more positive feelings and behaviours. Together with somatic therapy, this integrated approach allows us to work from the body to the mind, creating deeper, lasting change.
Integrating Somatic Therapy and CBT
In our sessions, we often blend skills from both somatic therapy and CBT, starting with the body to create safety and grounding, and then working with the mind to bring insight and lasting transformation.
If this approach feels aligned with your healing journey, I invite you to schedule a free 15-minute consultation by clicking the button below.