A life shaped by embodied listening.

Since early adulthood, I’ve trained in multiple bodywork modalities, breathwork, somatic movement, and relational practices that centre presence, attunement, and embodied listening. These experiences have cultivated a refined sensitivity to the emotional currents that move through the body and the relational field, and continue to shape my therapeutic approach, which trusts the body’s intelligence.

Breathwork has been a particularly significant influence. My training in Rebirthing Breathwork deepened my understanding of how emotional processes move through the body and how conscious breathing can support their integration. This work strengthened my capacity to stay present with intensity, to track subtle shifts in sensation, and to support clients in developing their own embodied resilience. Breathwork also expanded my appreciation for how early experiences — including developmental, familial, and pre-verbal layers — can echo through adult life, and how gentle, attuned contact can help bring these patterns into awareness.

Somatic movement practices such as Contact Improvisation further enriched my understanding of boundaries, support, and connection. Through this form, I learned to sense relational dynamics directly through the body — how we initiate, respond, soften, or step away — often without spoken words. My experience of Contact Improvisation was complemented by Body Mind-Centering, which offers a nuanced appreciation of developmental movement patterns and the embodied foundations of relating.

Family & Systemic Constellations has been another long-standing thread in my work. It highlights the broader systems that shape us and the relational fields we belong to, reminding us that our challenges often sit within wider dynamics rather than solely within the individual. This perspective supports clients with a sense of belonging within their relational networks and in finding pathways toward greater ease and support.

Gestalt Psychotherapy has softened me further, inviting a sensitive, trauma-informed lens to working with the complexity of our human-ness and how we relate with the world. In Gestalt, I have found an approach that seems to encompass the elements of somatic awareness and relationality I value.

Together, these influences inform the grounded, somatic orientation I bring to therapy — one that honours the body, welcomes emotional diversity, and attends to the relational contexts that shape our experience.