How I Work in Session
A key part of this process is supporting your nervous system, especially the vagus nerve — the pathway that regulates your stress response, emotional safety, and sense of connection.
When trauma or chronic stress has kept you in survival mode, your system doesn’t just “calm down” because you decided to. It needs a new experience of safety.
In session, we use:
Grounding and body-awareness
Breath-based regulation
Emotional processing at a pace that feels safe
Subconscious and narrative work so your inner world actually changes
The goal is for your mind and body to start working with each other instead of against each other.
For survivors of ongoing abuse, sexual assault, and chronic emotional harm.
Complex trauma develops when harm happens repeatedly or over long periods of time — domestic violence, coercive control, sexual assault, emotional neglect, or living in environments where you had to stay small, guarded, or hyper-aware just to feel safe.
Your nervous system learned to survive. That can look like:
Hypervigilance and constant scanning
Emotional shutdown or dissociation
People-pleasing and self-abandonment
Struggling with trust, boundaries, and self-worth
Feeling disconnected from your body, emotions, or identity
In our work, we don’t force you to relive every detail. We move slowly, with consent and stability at the centre.
We focus on how your experiences shaped your reactions, beliefs, and boundaries so you can start reclaiming power, identity, and emotional freedom.
Trauma-informed, harm-reduction-based support for people whose addictions began as survival.
Addiction rarely starts from recklessness. It starts from pain, trauma, and a nervous system that never felt safe.
Substances or behaviours — alcohol, food, sex, control, gambling, work, or other compulsive patterns — become ways to regulate distress when nothing else is available.
My approach is grounded in harm reduction:
We start with safety, stabilisation, and reducing risk
We do not punish you for where you are at
We don’t force abstinence before you’re ready
Whether your goal is safer use, cutting back, full recovery, or simply understanding your addiction without shame, we work with the reality of where you are.
We explore:
Trauma and emotional memory
Attachment wounds and relational patterns
The vagus nerve’s role in regulation and relapse
The beliefs you hold about yourself, your worth, and your “failures”
Relapse here is not treated as failure. It’s information. We work with it safely, honestly, and without judgment.
For people who are “functioning” but not okay.
You might not identify with the word “trauma” or “addiction”, but you know something isn’t right.
Maybe you’ve:
Relocated or changed countries
Left a relationship or a role that defined you
Outgrown old coping mechanisms
Hit a point where life is technically “fine” but feels empty or misaligned
You might feel:
Numb, exhausted, or emotionally flat
Easily overwhelmed or dysregulated
Disconnected from your body or your own needs
Unsure who you are without your old role, identity, or coping patterns
In this work, we focus on:
Regulating your nervous system so daily life doesn’t feel like a constant fight
Understanding the beliefs and narratives driving your choices
Repairing self-worth, boundaries, and self-trust
Creating an identity that fits who you are now — not just who you had to be
This space is for you if:
You’re tired of just coping and want real internal change
You want your emotional reactions to make sense instead of feeling random or “crazy”
You’re ready to look at patterns with honesty, not self-hate
You want support that understands complex trauma, addiction, and big life transitions through both lived experience and clinical understanding
You don’t have to have the right words or a clean story. You just need to be willing to start.
Our first call is a conversation, not an interrogation.
We’ll talk about:
What you’re dealing with right now
What you’ve already tried
What feels most urgent beneath the surface
Whether my way of working is the right fit for you
There’s no pressure to commit on that call. It’s a chance to see if you feel safe, understood, and ready to take the next step.