Sometimes what is needed is space to reflect, build insight and understand your experience more clearly, alongside learning new skills and practising new ways of responding, thinking and relating. Talk therapy can help you make sense of patterns in your thoughts, emotions and relationships, while developing greater awareness and choice in how you respond.

I offer traditional talk therapy for people who want this kind of structured, collaborative work. This may be a helpful starting point in therapy, or something we draw on alongside deeper emotional and body-based approaches such as Brainspotting and Parts Work, depending on what feels most helpful for you.

Brainspotting is a powerful mind-body approach that works beyond conscious verbal processing, bringing attention to the connection between emotional experience, the brain and the body. It can be particularly helpful when experiences feel difficult to shift through talking and insight alone, supporting the processing of unresolved trauma, distress and emotional activation.

Brainspotting can be helpful for trauma and anxiety, as well as difficulties that involve challenging or persistent bodily symptoms. It can offer another way of working with experiences that may be difficult to fully access or express through words.

Parts work, informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), is based on the idea that we all have different parts within us, each with its own feelings, needs and ways of responding. At times, these parts can feel in conflict. For example, an inner critic that pushes us to achieve or get things right, alongside a more vulnerable part that feels hurt, fearful or not good enough.

Parts work helps us to make contact with these different parts, listen to them and understand what they may be trying to protect or communicate. Through developing a more compassionate relationship with our inner world, the conflict between different parts can begin to soften, creating greater inner harmony.