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Services

Individual Therapy

My approach is integrative, compassionate, and tailored to meet you where you are—helping you uncover patterns, process experiences, and develop the tools needed to navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity and resilience.

Grounded in neuroscience and attachment theory, I guide you in exploring how past experiences and relationships have shaped your present thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Together, we’ll work to rewire limiting patterns, fostering a deeper understanding of yourself and your responses.

I also incorporate knowledge of the nervous system to help you recognize how stress, trauma, and emotional triggers impact your body and mind. Using evidence-based neurotherapy techniques, we can gently access and release stuck emotions, reduce distress, and support long-term healing.

Our work together is collaborative, and I’ll help you find the approach that aligns best with your needs.

Insight Focused Neurotherapy (IFnT)

Insight Focused Neurotherapy is a therapeutic approach that combines neuroscience and psychology to help individuals understand and rewire their brain’s response to stress, emotions, and behavior patterns.

By enhancing self-awareness and identifying subconscious patterns, this therapy aims to create lasting change in thought processes and emotional regulation. It integrates techniques such as neurofeedback, mindfulness, and cognitive restructuring to improve mental clarity and resilience.

Unlike traditional talk therapy, Insight Focused Neurotherapy works directly with the brain’s natural plasticity, helping individuals build healthier neural pathways for long-term emotional and psychological well-being.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are all interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in negative and unhealthy behaviors and thought patterns.

The aim is to help you deal with overwhelming issues in a more positive way by breaking them down into smaller parts. You're shown how to change these negative patterns to improve the way you feel.

Unlike some other talking treatments, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy deals with your current problems, rather than focusing on issues from your past.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy has evolved to become an evidence-based psychotherapy approach that is used to treat many conditions.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a modified type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Its main goals are to teach people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.

During sessions DBT therapists will use a balance of acceptance and change techniques. Acceptance techniques focus on understanding yourself as a person and making sense of why you might do the things you do. Change techniques focus on replacing behaviors that harm you with behaviors that help you. This may mean your therapist will challenge your unhelpful thoughts and encourage you to find new ways of dealing with distress.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is described as the practice of being present, in the moment, on purpose, without judgment, doing one thing at a time, and doing what works for you.

Why is mindfulness so important? Because it helps us cope with a variety of concerns including problems with mood, chronic pain, and attention. The research has shown that mindfulness facilitates emotion regulation because it helps us to remain in the present and focus on the facts alone. When we feel something intensely, there are often ineffective urges present, and mindfulness allows us to see potential (skillful) alternative options before we act.

Acceptance is a core aspect of mindfulness. Those who learn to accept their experiences and not just notice them are less reactive to stress and are less prone to mind-wandering. When we accept difficult situations, the situation will run its course and eventually go away. Acceptance helps us to stop ruminating on what is “wrong” and allows us to experience other feelings and thoughts. In this way, we get to see the entire picture.

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

ARTHUR ASHE