1:1 Integrative Psychotherapy Sessions
A safe, non-judgmental, respectful space where you can explore your current challenges, building awareness, understanding and processing difficult and traumatic experiences, with the intention of integrating experience, experiencing an increased sense of having choice and control in your life and a establishing a deepening relationship with your inner processes.
All of my work is guided by the principles of Person Centred Therapy. An approach that holds the client’s experience and the therapeutic relationship as paramount. My intention is to offer space for gentle and respectful exploration of your inner world, where you do not feel judged and where you can begin to feel confident to explore what’s important to you, building or re-building trust in your inner wisdom.
The sessions are a collaborative space that integrates experiential approaches including focussing and awareness of physical (somatic) experience alongside EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) , or ‘parts’ work. I aim to support mindful dialogue and integration between internal ‘parts’ of us, or ‘Ego States’ to heal emotional wounds. This is offered through the lens of ‘Attachment Theory’ and is informed by neurobiological approaches to trauma.
The past affects the present even without our being aware of it.
Francine Shapiro
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing):
EMDR is an approach that is now widely researched and empirically validated. We work with traumatic experiences that hold distress, that are ‘stuck’ in our brain’s neural networks. The intention is to enable them to connect with more adaptive information. This is facilitated through the activation of a memory network and the introduction of bi-lateral stimulation (BLS). The sessions last 60 or 90 minutes.
https://emdr-europe.org/about/the-aip-model/
EMDR is a therapeutic modality that looks to the root causes of your present concerns, asking ‘what has happened in your past that has led to you feeling the way that you do right now?’
Attachment Informed EMDR Therapy builds on the Standard Protocol of EMDR to incorporate attachment or developmental trauma (CPTSD) as well as symptoms of PTSD, Intergenerational Trauma and dreamwork.
Our parts can sometimes be disruptive or harmful, but once they’re unburdened, they return to their essential goodness. When we learn to love all our parts, we can learn to love all people-and that will contribute to healing the world.
Dr. Richard Schwartz
Internal Family Systems:
IFS (Internal Family Systems) is an approach conceptualised by Dr. Richard Schwartz that enables us to connect and build relationship with our inner landscape. He holds that ‘our disturbing thoughts and emotions… are manifestations of inner personalities that have been forced into extreme roles by events in our lives’ and that our inner world has been built to protect us from feeling and experiencing the overwhelm of wounded parts. The intention of this work is to help us to identify and build relationship with these parts through the development of ‘Self’ energy.
A typical session of IFS explores the complexities of relationship between these parts. In an integrative psychotherapeutic session, we may intertwine this ‘parts’ work with EMDR, respecting the inherent inner wisdom of your system. If you choose, we can work solely from an IFS perspective, where the session is purely focused on building relationship between the ‘Self’ and ‘parts’, facilitating the building of ‘Self’ energy. The sessions last 60 or 90 minutes.
Couples and Relationship Attachment Informed Sessions
A secure, compassionate space for you and your partner to explore and understand difficulties in your relationship. The sessions last for 60 minutes and initially begin with a joint session, followed by two individual sessions where I learn more from you both about your ‘attachment history’, your relationships with parents or care givers and significant others in your life. We explore your individual reasons for coming to therapy and what you hope to gain from the sessions and whether there is any trauma in your histories.
There is an ‘attachment theory’ focus to the sessions throughout as we learn about your past experiences of relationship and how they may be guiding you now, in the present, in your intimate relationship. The focus of the sessions is on building compassion and understanding towards the other person in your relationship, increasing your self-awareness and creating a shared priority of the ‘relationship’.
The sessions are an experiential and emotional place, a space for learning about each other, for hearing and responding to the hurt or unmet attachment needs that are being expressed, and for gently building confidence in expressing our own feelings. The intention is to build and express compassion, love, self-awareness and trust.
It is in the shelter of each other that we will live
Celtic Proverb
1:1 Supervision
I offer a professional and contained space for you to undertake supervision to develop your professional practice in line with ethical and professional requirements. The intention is to offer a space for collaborative learning and reflective insight, mindful of the importance of relationship, respect and mutual accountability.
I hold a Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision from UCLAN (University of Central Lancashire) and offer 1:1 Supervision sessions either in person or remotely through Zoom. I am an Accredited Member of the BACP and a Professional Accredited Member of the NCS.
I can offer 60 or 90 minute Supervision Sessions as required. I currently only work with qualified therapists and as such am unable to offer sessions to students.