I offer a creative, trauma-informed therapeutic approach that aims to support expression and exploration of life experiences, encourage positive change and improve emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Μy practice is informed by trauma-focused therapies (EMDR / DBR /narrative exposure therapy), psychodynamic psychotherapy, dramatherapy and phototherapy/therapeutic photography. I use a variety of methods to support individuals address and explore feelings, personal and emotional difficulties, relationship issues and trauma. These include talking therapy, trauma processing techniques, working with photographs, objects, masks, embodiment, role-play, story making and creative writing. The work encourages use of metaphor and symbolism to enable exploration and understanding of difficult issues at a distance. Arts psychotherapy interventions can mobilise imaginative resources leading to new skills, greater confidence and an ability to deal more effectively with situations arising in life; offer space for explorations of the role patterns we inhabit; encourage both verbal and non verbal
communication. Trauma focused therapies can target traumatic memories and allow the brain to reprocess the memories and any feelings and thoughts around them in a safe and supported space. This can lead to relief of symptoms, such as flashbacks and nightmares and reduction of
distress and anxiety. I am a qualified Arts and EMDR Therapist with over ten years professional experience practising in private practice, the NHS and the Third Sector, in Glasgow, Dundee and London. I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and insured by the Psychologists Protection Society (PPS). I have specialised in Dramatherapy (MA, University of Roehampton, London) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) and I have undertaken addition training in
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Therapeutic Photography (School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Centre of Therapy, Glasgow), Narrative Exposure Therapy and Mindfulness.
