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23/12/2025

I have officially completed a full, intense, nonstop professional first year of Compassionate Inquiry, with *Dr Gabor Maté* as my mentor. It was a complete a long, demanding, and deeply transformative chapter of my professional journey as a counsellor and psychotherapist.

This year required hours and hours of study, supervision, practice sessions, reflection, and integration. It stretched me intellectually, emotionally, psychologically and somatically. But more than anything, it asked something much deeper of me.
It asked me to turn toward myself.

Compassionate Inquiry is not something you learn and then apply to others. First, it gently and sometimes relentlessly invites me to meet my own conditioning, my own protective strategies, my own unexamined pain. There were several moments of vulnerability, moments of tenderness, moments where I developed compassion and empathy for myself and connected with my authenticity.

I feel immense gratitude for the mentorship, the community, and the integrity of this work. And I feel a quiet sense of completion paired with the knowing that this is not an ending, but a deepening. Currently doing the second year of training!

15/11/2025

How anxious land avoidant attachment begings

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07/11/2025

04/11/2025

What I Learned from Bessel van der Kolk

I recently attended a conference with Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, and my heart feels so full.

Van der Kolk, one of the world’s leading experts on trauma, shared decades of pioneering research into how traumatic stress reshapes both the brain and the body.

He spoke about how those who have lived through trauma often carry incomprehensible anxiety, deep numbness, or waves of rage emotions that make so much sense when we understand the body’s desperate attempt to stay safe.

Trauma, he reminds us, touches every part of a person’s life the ability to concentrate, to remember, to trust, and even to feel at home in one’s own body.

And yet, his message was also deeply hopeful.
Healing is possible.
Through body-based, integrative approaches like somatic trauma-informed therapy, neurofeedback, psychedelic therapy, psychodrama, and even dance, we can begin to reconnect, to feel again, and to inhabit our bodies with gentleness and safety.

This work continues to affirm something I deeply believe:
🕊 *Healing begins when we listen to the body with compassion*.
🕊 Safety is not found through words alone, but through presence, movement, and connection.

10/10/2025

Healing trauma isn’t just about talking it through. The body carries what words can’t express - and recovery often begins by listening to the wisdom of the nervous system.

✨ Want to learn more about body-based, trauma-informed approaches? Watch my free webinar now.

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09/10/2025

we believe in seeing people through a trauma-informed lens—understanding them not just by their public accomplishments or visible behaviors, but by the complexity and strength of their inner world, shaped by relationships, experiences, and resilience. That lens came into sharp focus while watching...

24/06/2025

Trauma (wound) is a huge range of spectrum, anything that makes you disconnect from yourself, from your body, emotions, feelings, gut feelings, anything that deprives you of hope. Also, is anything that breaks your connection to yourself and your genuine, not your false egoic belief in yourself, but your genuine belief in your wholeness.

No one is broken; underneath the brokenness, there is wholeness. It is not a matter of fixing anything broken; it is finding the wholeness that is underneath the brokenness.

I support people whose lives have been shaped by trauma, some obvious, others more hidden. I have seen how unresolved pain silently infuses every aspect of life, from relationships to mental health to even physical health.

I support people facing the scars of narcissist abuse, child abuse, sexual trauma, emotional abuse, emotional unmet needs, and many other wounds, big and small. In the process of therapy, you can heal trauma that can transform suffering into resilience and into strength.

I invite you to take a healing journey.

“Trauma is not the bad things that happen to you. But what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.” Gabor Mate

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09/06/2025

18/02/2025

“We’re born with a need for attachment and a need for authenticity,” psychiatrist Gabor Maté explains in his book The Myth of Normal. “Most people abandon their true selves (authenticity) to please others and keep the relationships (attachments), even if they are ones that are toxic and destructive.