hope & transformation are possible when we Are present to and include
the whole self ...mind and body.
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Crossing The Divides
MODALITIES
Somatic Experiencing
The SE Approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of life energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and emotions and to be able to establish a greater capacity to engage with the environment in the present moment with a growing sense of ease and safety.
SE trauma resolution does not require the traumatised person to re-tell or re-live the traumatic event. Instead, it offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve, in a slow and supported way, the body’s instinctual fight, flight and freeze responses. This resets the nervous system, restores inner balance, enhances resilience to stress, and increases people’s vitality, equanimity, and capacity to actively engage in life.
In our world and in these crazy times, perhaps it is especially important to remember the body, the vessel, for it is a sanctuary of immense intelligence and majesty.
https://psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/2347/an-interview-with-peter-levine
Synergetic Play Therapy
At its core SPT is about transforming the therapeutic process bringing healing through connection, self-awareness and the power of being truely authentic in the therapy room, This revolutionary model has transformed my work with both children and adults. It is a deeply relational process that enables me to assist individuals and families to develop templates for change that is sustainable. It combines play, nervous system regulation, and attachment science.
In this model, the therapist’s nervous system becomes an external regulator, helping the the client to move from overwhelm toward safety and calm.
With children rather than interpreting play, the therapist joins the child with authenticity, presence, and emotional coherence, helping the child learn to recognise and integrate their own feelings and energy. Play becomes the language through which children process experiences, explore emotions, and build resilience. Over time, the child develops the capacity to regulate themselves, understand their feelings, and feel more connected to the people around them.
Somatic (Touch) Practice
Regulation, regulation and more regulation...
When the impact of trauma is not addressed in therapy and remains untreated, it becomes deeply held at a body level in the bones, the organs, the
tissues, fascia and fluids. This foundational dysregulation may cause severe somatic/medical symptoms for the young child and/or much later for the adult. To address, prebirth, pre-verbal and internalized traumatic states and disrupted physiology I use trauma informed touch therapy. This practice allows the client to stay present and regulate physiological responses and minimize the potential for being overwhelmed by strong physiological sensations. These touch skills are used intentionally to resource you and help to bring deep regulation and release the built up toxicity in the system.
Intentional touch makes space to unload the traumatic stress physiology slowly. It accesses states of calm that other modalities can't. It is the gateway to re-establishing regulation as a base to come back to when the early physiology has been disrupted. Touch work slowly gets the client back within healthy physiology and helps them to reach their potential.
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New neuro-pathways are established, stuck survival behaviors and your life energy are liberated. You get to re-sort the world with a different lens, the lens of safety through co-regulation. Somatic touch therapy helps you develop a new relationship with your bodies story, to unravel bodily structures set through the repetition of trauma responses and to trust differently. When we trust differently we change and when we change, what we are looking at changes. The world becomes a different place of untold possibility.
Somatic Practice and neuroaffectivce touch is a process of co-regulation. The therapist and the client are engaged in the dance of co-regualtion, working together toward regulation and coherence.
Dramatherapy (Sesame)
Dramatherapy in particular the sesame specialisation of drama and movement therapy, is the practice of using archetypes, myths, imagery, drawing, storytelling, drumming, drama, poetry, movement in an integrated way, to foster human growth, development, and healing. Traditionally expressive therapy is its own distinct inter-modal discipline where the therapist and client move freely between drawing, dancing, music making, drama, movement and poetry. At CTD/BTT while this process remains fluid I never lose sight of where the real action is taking place - in the nervous system. Whatever we are doing I continually monitor and bring my clients back to managing and navigating the cycles of fight, flight, freeze and collapse in the Autonomic Nervous System to facilitate deep and liberating healing.
PACT Couples Therapy
Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) is a research-based method developed by Stan Tatkin that draws on attachment science, neuroscience, and the biology of stress. Instead of only focusing on communication skills, PACT explores how each partner’s nervous system responds to safety, closeness, and conflict.
\Couples learn to recognise their protective patterns and understand how these patterns shape the way they move toward or away from each other. In this work, the therapist actively helps partners slow down interactions so they can see what is happening in real time.
My approach integrates PACT with somatic awareness and trauma-informed practice, helping partners notice what is happening in their bodies as well as their words.
The goal is not simply to resolve arguments, but to help couples build a relationship where both partners feel safe, understood, and supported.
Crossing The Divides
MODALITIES
Somatic Experiencing
The SE Approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of life energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and emotions and to be able to establish a greater capacity to engage with the environment in the present moment with a growing sense of ease and safety.
SE trauma resolution does not require the traumatised person to re-tell or re-live the traumatic event. Instead, it offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve, in a slow and supported way, the body’s instinctual fight, flight and freeze responses. This resets the nervous system, restores inner balance, enhances resilience to stress, and increases people’s vitality, equanimity, and capacity to actively engage in life.
In our world and in these crazy times, perhaps it is especially important to remember the body, the vessel, for it is a sanctuary of immense intelligence and majesty.
https://psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/2347/an-interview-with-peter-levine
Synergetic Play Therapy
At its core SPT is about transforming the therapeutic process bringing healing through connection, self-awareness and the power of being truely authentic in the therapy room, This revolutionary model has transformed my work with both children and adults. It is a deeply relational process that enables me to assist individuals and families to develop templates for change that is sustainable. It combines play, nervous system regulation, and attachment science.
In this model, the therapist’s nervous system becomes an external regulator, helping the the client to move from overwhelm toward safety and calm.
With children rather than interpreting play, the therapist joins the child with authenticity, presence, and emotional coherence, helping the child learn to recognise and integrate their own feelings and energy. Play becomes the language through which children process experiences, explore emotions, and build resilience. Over time, the child develops the capacity to regulate themselves, understand their feelings, and feel more connected to the people around them.
Somatic (Touch) Practice
Regulation, regulation and more regulation...
When the impact of trauma is not addressed in therapy and remains untreated, it becomes deeply held at a body level in the bones, the organs, the
tissues, fascia and fluids. This foundational dysregulation may cause severe somatic/medical symptoms for the young child and/or much later for the adult. To address, prebirth, pre-verbal and internalized traumatic states and disrupted physiology I use trauma informed touch therapy. This practice allows the client to stay present and regulate physiological responses and minimize the potential for being overwhelmed by strong physiological sensations. These touch skills are used intentionally to resource you and help to bring deep regulation and release the built up toxicity in the system.
Intentional touch makes space to unload the traumatic stress physiology slowly. It accesses states of calm that other modalities can't. It is the gateway to re-establishing regulation as a base to come back to when the early physiology has been disrupted. Touch work slowly gets the client back within healthy physiology and helps them to reach their potential.
.
New neuro-pathways are established, stuck survival behaviors and your life energy are liberated. You get to re-sort the world with a different lens, the lens of safety through co-regulation. Somatic touch therapy helps you develop a new relationship with your bodies story, to unravel bodily structures set through the repetition of trauma responses and to trust differently. When we trust differently we change and when we change, what we are looking at changes. The world becomes a different place of untold possibility.
Somatic Practice and neuroaffectivce touch is a process of co-regulation. The therapist and the client are engaged in the dance of co-regualtion, working together toward regulation and coherence.
Dramatherapy (Sesame)
Dramatherapy in particular the sesame specialisation of drama and movement therapy, is the practice of using archetypes, myths, imagery, drawing, storytelling, drumming, drama, poetry, movement in an integrated way, to foster human growth, development, and healing. Traditionally expressive therapy is its own distinct inter-modal discipline where the therapist and client move freely between drawing, dancing, music making, drama, movement and poetry. At CTD/BTT while this process remains fluid I never lose sight of where the real action is taking place - in the nervous system. Whatever we are doing I continually monitor and bring my clients back to managing and navigating the cycles of fight, flight, freeze and collapse in the Autonomic Nervous System to facilitate deep and liberating healing.
PACT Couples Therapy
Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) is a research-based method developed by Stan Tatkin that draws on attachment science, neuroscience, and the biology of stress. Instead of only focusing on communication skills, PACT explores how each partner’s nervous system responds to safety, closeness, and conflict.
\Couples learn to recognise their protective patterns and understand how these patterns shape the way they move toward or away from each other. In this work, the therapist actively helps partners slow down interactions so they can see what is happening in real time.
My approach integrates PACT with somatic awareness and trauma-informed practice, helping partners notice what is happening in their bodies as well as their words.
The goal is not simply to resolve arguments, but to help couples build a relationship where both partners feel safe, understood, and supported.
What to expect
A session with me always includes the body in the healing process.
All of our work will be grounded in Somatic Experiencing and informed by parts work and attachment understandings. The process moves along a continuum, from body-based tracking
to imaginal, touch-based and/or sesame informed dramatherapy, with each element
informing the others. How these show up will be determined by what is needed by you nervous system and what
supports safety and integration.
What is expected of you.
Just bring you, your curiosity and desire for healing and a preparedness to view healing
as a journey not as a destination. These are more than enough.
What to expect from me.
What I can do is offer myself, as the bridge to your regulation, wholehearted and present. I will walk hand-in-hand with you and your children through the fear and the mess always ensuring that you feel accompanied, held, seen and felt. That’s what I am here for.
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