Navigating your life's journey can be filled with joy and connection. It can also bring times of difficulty, stress and loss. These times can lead to ongoing challenges in your mental and emotional wellbeing and your relationships, leaving unexpected changes and trauma. These challenges often arise during or in relation to, the hormonal and life stage changes that occur in a woman's life. 

The impact of your menstrual health and associated conditions, fertility difficulties and reproductive trauma is often hidden or dismissed in our society. As a result you may become disconnected from your body, impacting your mental health and emotional regulation, as well as your relationships and sense of resiliency as you move through life. 

If embarking into the perinatal period, this life stage is one of great physiological, psychological and hormonal change with resulting identity reformation. For some it comes with unexpected loss and trauma. It also may bring to light childhood experiences and previous trauma which impacts this significant life transition, influencing your emerging role as a parent.

Traversing the hormonal unpredictability of perimenopause and menopause, women will often notice changes in their mental and emotional wellbeing. This can be a time when once again you may renegotiate your sense of self, your relationships, your life's purpose and at times be unexpectedly triggered by past grief and trauma or be navigating new losses.

Through all these times we may seek out support from family and friends or manage these issues on our own. However, there are times when support and strategies from a professional can be of great help. I offer a compassionate and safe space for you to be seen, heard and to heal.

Working from an understanding that our mind and bodies are interconnected, consideration of the influence of hormonal change, nervous system regulation and women's health related conditions on a woman's mental and emotional wellbeing are fundamental in my approach.

I provide counselling which integrates evidence based therapies including the somatic modalities of TCTSY and Somatic Experiencing® and body based mindfulness techniques, with traditional talk therapies drawing on contemporary grief, attachment and trauma theories, which can support empowered choices towards embodied healing.

My approach supports you to untangle your traumatic experiences from the beliefs, thoughts and emotions that have become enmeshed with your body's survival responses. In understanding your attachment patterns which formed in early childhood alongside your emotional regulation capacity, I offer opportunities to renegotiate these patterns finding a greater sense of safety in your body, emotional regulation and reconnection to yourself and others.