Booking Confirmation: Online Session

• If you see me weekly - I recommend 1 hour - but some people prefer 1.5 hours.
• If you see me fortnightly - I recommend a 1.5 hour session - but some people prefer (or can only afford) 1 hour.
• For single standalone sessions - I recommend 1.5 hours - but some people prefer 1 hour.
• Longer sessions are availble by negotiation.

• I mostly work with people across more substantial periods of time, with a recurring session slot weekly or fortnightly. This has the benefit of building a strong relational container through which we can safely access deeper material for transformation.
• A programme of work might combine both in person and online sessions: you can move flexibly between them within the same recurring session slot.
• In longer ongoing work I often interchangeably use several modalities, in partnership and negotiation with your needs as they change.
• Some people really benefit from a single standalone session or a very short series. This works well for illuminating a single issue or question. Single sessions are generally most appropriate for a Family Constellation or an educational piece.
• Single sessions don't allow for building a container of relationship to facilitate attachment healing ruptures and repair. Healing your inner child / trauma sensitive breathwork / Transforming Touch: all benefit from an ongoing container of relationship to be effective.

Sometimes which therapy to use is really clear. This maybe because you have experienced a range of healing modalities enabling you to be really clear about where to go next. Or it maybe because during the intake process, you offer a piece of information that makes it really clear to me which tool in my toolkit will be most useful to your enquiry.

Sometimes it is not so clear either to you or to me where to begin. This is where an orientation session is really useful as it gives you chance to experience some of the ways that I work. It also offers me more time to explore your enquiry in depth out of which I can make a recommendation for a plan of work.

This is a brief summary of what happens in each session type for your ease of comparison:

Family Constellations Therapy

You will be asked to complete a family tree form prior to your session (this is optional). We will spend some time talking about your themes. We will then 'constellate' using your inner vision, floor markers or small figures. I will teach you how to do this so don't worry, I have several methods and there is a right one for everybody!

Trauma Sensitive Breathwork Therapy

Where relevant I may ask you to complete a form requesting information about your birth. We will spend some time talking about your themes and then explore them more deeply by bringing attention to your body and your breath while you remain seated in your chair. Unlike other breathwork practices (e.g. holotropic) I don't use loud music and I don't ask you to lie down.

TEB: Transforming Touch & Intentional Touch:

In an introductory session I will offer you a short teaching, so you can understand how transforming touch (and intentional touch) works. We will talk about your themes and collboratively identify the things you want to transform. I will describe to you the pattern of touch and ask your permission to continue. In an intro session, the transforming touch may last 15 - 20 mins. In subsequent sessions it may last as long as 40 minutes.

Transforming touch: you lie on a massage table - clothed - and under a blanket if you like. I place my hands for 1 - 6 minutes to connect with areas of your body such as your kidney adrenals or brainstem. This is called the 7 point protocol. In time we will add 'enhancements' to this, which may include guided movements relating to primitive reflexe integration.

Transforming intentional touch: we move through the 7 point protocol and any enhancements 'intentionally'. I don't touch you, but guide the process with my voice. E.g. "I am bringing my attention now to support your kidney adrenals".

Throughout the whole process - you may opt to remain silent or continue to talk and share what is emerging for you. I will engage with the process as it unfolds for you, bringing guideance and support.

The Wheel of Consent

When learning online as an individual you will be taught solo embodied practices such as Awaken the Hands and Wheel of Consent theory too. For a description of in person sessions that include touch, please see the section Touch and Consent below. Please note that whilst these sessions include touch and discussions about desire, they do not include unclothed or sexual touch.

Soul Energy Optimisation

My work with practitioners is a mixture of practical guidance and transformational enquiry, to unite what you do best with those whom you best serve. We can use constellations or breathwork to transform blocks in your working life. Or I can guide you to develop your own branding and website, so sessions will be much more practically orientated e.g. developing design and logo, writing copy, learning how to DIY your own website.

Touch and Consent

Elements of my work may include touch - here is a summary of when / where / how:

1. Family Constellations - the only / most likely kind of touch is hand on your shoulder to support regulation, or to embody the supportive presence of an element of the constellation. I will make a simple request or statement first.
2. Trauma Sensitive Breathwork - my baseline is to begin with seated sessions where any touch comes from your own hands, e.g. a hand on your chest or your stomache to feel the movement of your breath. Breath coaching in subsequent sessions may include more touch. e.g. my hands on the back and front of your chest so you can breathe and feel the space in between.
3. TEB: transforming touch follows a specific protocol that is described to you before beginning, touch follows a permission request.
4. The Wheel of Consent Sessions - receiving clothed non sexual touch, either seated or on a massage table, maybe part of this work. From Dr. Betty Martins website, here is a video of how the seated touch would look (take / allow dynamic), and here is what the table work would look like.

Mixed Modality Sessions:

Some people approach my work clearly wanting to experience just one area of it. Others are drawn to my work because of the range of approaches that I use and sessions may be mixed modality.

Either way, how I approach sessions is strongly influenced by a Pluralistic approach that celebrates diversity. I understand that therapy is most effective when it takes account of your preferences and that an effective therapeutic relationship is characterised by collaboration, caring and trust.

The Somatic Therapy Studio is accessed via one flight of stairs, as is the venues that I use for in-person workshops. It is a high priority for me to move all of my work to a wheelchair accessible space but unfortunately at this time, all in-person work is not wheelchair accessible.

I continue looking for accessible venues but unfortunately - at present - they are not compatible with my accessible pricing policy.

I have experience of offering somatic and systemic work (both online and in-person), across a range of client neurodivergence and disabilities. I integrate social models of disability throughout my work and am willing to be called in (or out) on my blindspots, though I do my best to make sure you don't have to do that too often.

If you have access needs, please let me know in the intake form and we can discuss if and how I am able to meet them. Here are the areas of experience in my work:

• Autism
• ADHD
• Sensory Processing Disorder / Issues
• Wheelchair users (online)
• Hard of Hearing
• ME / CFS
• Advance stage MS

Safety Frameworks

I have regular supervision with Systemic and Family Therapist Michael Rashke and DK Green Psychotherapy, I hold public liability insurance with BGI UK. I am an accredited senior member of the ACCPH which has a complaints process. You can see exactly what I studied and with whom by reading my training and experience page.

Other memberships: I am part of closed regularly meeting, peer support and suppervision practitioner circle. We are called Plurilium and consist of 5 practitioners. Focus keywords of our discussions include consent, ethics, nervous system awareness, community accountability, GSRD & LGBTQIA+ practice.

When undertaking superivison, care is taken to not give details that would reveal your identity. In the rare event that my supervisor were to recognise a client via details given, the conversation would be drawn to a close and I would take that casework elsewhere.

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In booking a session you understand and agree to the following:

None of the work I undertake has a scientific or medical evidence base. Whilst every effort has been made to create a safe environment for you, you also agree to undertake this work at your own risk. You agree to be reponsible for your own wellbeing, including checking in advance with suitable practitioners if this work is suitable for you. This might include:

• Your medical practitioner / GP / doctor
• Any psychiatric or mental health practitioners you are under the care of

If you are booking from the USA:

The definition of "therapy" used on this website accords with the common language usage of that term in the UK. Therapy in the UK denotes a rande of holistic practices that support people to experience greater well-being.