My approach

My approach to therapy is holistic, humanistic, and integrative, grounded in trauma-informed principles and an understanding of the mind–body connection.

A holistic approach recognises that mental health is deeply connected to the body and nervous system. Our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and life experiences are closely intertwined. In therapy, we work with the whole person — supporting both emotional awareness and nervous system regulation to promote lasting healing and resilience.

A humanistic perspective means that my work is non-pathologising and compassionate. I view each person as inherently whole, not broken or flawed. Every individual has a natural capacity for growth, healing, and self-discovery when supported within a safe, attuned, and respectful therapeutic relationship.

As an integrative therapist, I draw from a range of evidence-informed approaches to support each client’s unique needs. No single model holds all the answers, so therapy is tailored to the individual. My work integrates psychodynamic, existential, somatic, and relational approaches, along with parts work. This allows us to gently explore emotional patterns, process trauma, and support your nervous system in developing greater safety, self-understanding, and connection.

This integrative and trauma-informed approach supports trauma recovery, emotional regulation, and deeper self-understanding, creating the conditions for meaningful and lasting change.

Key components of my way of working

Relationships

Healing happens in relationships. Many of our wounds were created in relational environments — and safe relationships can also become the space where healing begins. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a safe space to experience connection, understanding, and change.

Safety/Nervous System

Safety is the foundation of trauma healing and recovery. In trauma-informed therapy, establishing a genuine sense of safety is the first and most important step toward healing the nervous system. As one learns to recognize cues of safety rather than threat the body can move out of survival mode — fight, flight, or freeze into a regulated and balanced inner state.

Partswork

Is an effective way of working with dissociation and overwhelm fostering compassion and curiosity to relate to our survival patterns as parts of us. These parts have developed for a reason and hold survival patterns key to healing and recovery supporting moving from fragmentation towards integration and cohesion.

In order to support the development of both internal safety and relational safety. Internal safety involves reconnecting with the body and learning to regulate the nervous system, while relational safety develops through safe and supportive therapeutic relationships. From this foundation of safety, deeper trauma healing becomes possible. The body can begin to release stored trauma, emotional regulation improves, and new patterns of connection, resilience, and self-trust can emerge.

In therapy we may explore:

  • Relationship patterns — understanding both healthy and unhealthy dynamics in your life
  • Attachment styles and attachment wounds and how they influence your current relationships
  • Emotional regulation, moving from co-regulation in a safe therapeutic relationship toward greater self-regulation
  • Trust and boundaries, including how to establish and repair them in relationships
  • New ways of relating to yourself and others with greater awareness, compassion, and authenticity

The modalities I draw on

Counselling/Psychotherapy/Coaching Modalities

  • Person-centered approach
  • Gestalt
  • Transpersonal Psychology
  • Existential Psychology
  • Psychodynamic Approach
  • Jung – dreamwork and archetypes
  • Creative expression
  • Family Systems Theory
  • CBT
  • Psychosynthesis
  • Attachment Theory
  • Ontological coaching

Modern Trauma informed Approaches

  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Polyvagal Theory
  • Structural Dissociation Model
  • Internal Family Systems
  • TIST (Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment)
  • NARM (Neuroaffective Relational Model)
  • Compassionate Inquiry (CI)
  • Component based Psychotherapy

MY EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS 

Pre-accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist with IACP

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BA (Hons) in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Degree, ICPPD, Galway

Diploma In Ontological Coaching, Hong Kong 

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Scotland, SOSI, UK )

Sound Healing Practitioner, Cork at Academy Of Sound Therapy

Reiki, Shamanism, 200h Hatha Yoga 

NARM healing developmental trauma

Compassionate Inquiry

Internal Family System (IFS)