Resources

Writings from the consulting room

Here I share readings to support your therapeutic process and to satisfy your curiosity about my philosophy and my approaches.

Therapeutic process

What to expect from therapy?

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Therapeutic approaches

Internal Family Systems (IFS): getting to know the parts that live in you

Getting to know the parts that live in you.

An impala leaps to escape a stalking cheetah beside a watering hole on the savanna

Therapeutic approaches

'Trauma' and Somatic Experiencing (SE)

Trauma is the response the body started and never finished.

A horse and a person standing close together in an open field

Therapeutic approaches

EASE: what horses showed me about connection

What can happen in silence, in presence, in connection.

Empty therapy room with two armchairs facing each other, warm afternoon light

First session

What's a first session usually like?

What happens, how long it lasts, what to bring.

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Wellbeing

When is a good time to start therapy?

The signs worth listening to.

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Therapeutic approaches

Many ways in: the approaches I integrate in session

The approaches I integrate, on one map.

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Therapeutic approaches

What is body-based therapy?

The body holds what the mind can't fully process.

Nervous system

Polyvagal Theory: the nervous system as a compass

Why we react the way we react.

Therapeutic approaches

Tapping / EFT: when the body gets the signal that you're safe now

When the body gets the signal that you're safe now.

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Therapeutic approaches

Core Energetics: the body as an archive of your history

The body as an emotional archive.

Wellbeing

I feel anxiety in my body, not just my mind

How the body registers anxiety before the mind can name it.

Wellbeing

Grief: when loss stays in the body

Grief doesn't resolve — it integrates.

Nervous system

What chronic stress is and how it affects the body

Why relaxing isn't always enough.

Wellbeing

My partner and I keep repeating the same pattern

Recognizing the cycle is the first step out of it.

Therapeutic process

The difference between a psychologist, a psychotherapist, and a psychiatrist

The most frequent question from anyone seeking help for the first time.

Nervous system

What nervous system regulation means and why it matters

It isn't calming down through willpower.

Therapeutic process

Therapy for teenagers: when and how

One of the deepest neurological reorganizations of a lifetime.

Therapeutic process

Do I need individual or couples therapy?

The answer is almost never binary.

Therapeutic process

In-person vs online therapy: which works better?

What the evidence says and how I think about the choice.

Wellbeing

I can't stop thinking about something that happened

Trauma is what stays in the body, not what occurred.

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