I’m interested in how we embody experience, as everything we are finds expression through our body. To be present to our felt sense, or put another way, to feel our body as we relate opens the door to our implicit sense of the world. This has a significant bearing to how we make sense of the world and our capacity for more freedom and agency in our everyday experience. Ron Kurtz the originator of Hakomi phrased this ‘how we unconsciously organise our experience holds the key to our core beliefs and biases.’ 

 

My studies in Hakomi began in 2002 with the first cohort of trainings that Donna Martin undertook in the UK..It was a rich experience with the training being undertaken over 6 day periods, giving plenty of time for deep material to surface. I found Hakomi to be a practice that reveals the obstacles to a deeper connection with our self and our clients.

My initial trainings in psychotherapy were heavily leant towards Rogers’ theory of growth. As a trainee I was impressed with Eugene Gendlin’s work. Along the way I qualified to supervise through a dynamic integrative teacher who had studied with Carl Rogers at La Jolla. In 2009 I was certified as a Hakomi therapist, on Donna and Flint Sparks’ blessing. 

Since then I have studied IFS and taken short courses in the field of trauma. 

 

Over the past 30 years I have had the opportunity support a wonderful array of humanity, some more complex than others! Raging from the ages of 4 to 84… 

I also teach Tai Chi and Qi Gong as great grounding practices.

I have 2 grown up children who have helped me in the world of developmental psychology!