People come with different experiences.

Whether it's a sense of constant tension or disconnection, difficulty in relationships or low self-worth, or something heavier — anxiety, low mood, the long reach of difficult past experiences — this work meets you where you are.

From there, we stay close to what is happening in your body, allowing what is held there to be felt and expressed, and gradually to move, change and integrate.

An important part of this is the steady, reliable relationship we build together, which in itself supports growth and new ways of relating.

No, dance experience is not needed.

The focus is on what you feel and experience in your body — not on how movement looks, and not on learning choreography.

And not every session involves dance as such. What we do depends on what we're working towards, on what feels comfortable to you, and on what I sense is most suited to the work in front of us. Sometimes that is movement. Sometimes it is stillness, breath, or words.

Many people begin here. Feeling little in the body is more common than you might think, and it isn't a barrier to this work — often it's what brings someone. We take it step by step, and connection to what you feel builds slowly. It doesn't need to be there at the start, and if nothing comes, that's something we can work with too.

This is a therapeutic space, grounded in body-based and psychotherapeutic approaches.

My role is to accompany, support and guide you into direct experience in the body, working with what is present in the moment.

Speaking has its own place in this. In Internal Family Systems especially, much of the work is spoken. What stays constant is that we work from what is happening in you as we go, rather than from an account of it afterwards.

Sessions take place in a focused, supportive space, following your pace and what is present that day.

A session generally includes:

• a brief check-in, to connect and bring in what is present

• movement, rhythm, breath, voice or self-touch, as ways of exploring and expressing

• time to pause, reflect and integrate what was experienced

Not all of the work involves movement. Some of it is spoken, while staying connected to the body — turning towards a part of you that has been carrying something, sensing how it makes itself felt, and listening for what it has to say.

Each session unfolds differently — we work with what is there for you.

More about how the work is structured on How we work.

A session lasts 60 minutes, or longer by agreement.

Frequency, fees and ways of working are all set out on Working together.

Let me know at least 24 hours beforehand and we'll find another time, at no cost. Sessions cancelled later than that, or not attended, are charged. The Terms set out the detail.

The free conversation isn't charged, so none of this applies to it — just tell me beforehand if you can't make it.

Yes. This work is well suited to an online format.

Because it is body-first and guided from your own internal experience, it doesn't rely on physical proximity. What we build together is a focused, attuned space, and that can happen just as fully online.

For many people, working from their own environment supports continuity and integration beyond the session itself.

Sessions take place on Zoom. In-person sessions are possible by arrangement.

A private space where you won't be interrupted, and enough room to move — a couple of square meters is plenty.

A laptop or tablet you can prop up, rather than a phone in your hand, it leaves your hands free and lets you move away from the screen when you want to. Comfortable clothes. A stable internet connection.

Often, yes.

It's something worth discussing together with the professionals already supporting you, so that everyone involved knows what you are doing and why. Between us, we can look at how it fits alongside what you already have.

Only as much as you want to. This work doesn't ask you for an account of your history — we work from what is alive in your body now. Difficult experiences can come close, and when they do we stay with what is workable for you. What you put into words is your choice.

You can pause, slow down, or stop at any point.

This work can bring you close to difficult emotions and experiences. Part of my role is to keep us within what is workable for you, and to notice with you when we are approaching an edge. Saying what you need, and where your limit is, is always welcome — nothing here asks you to go past it.

The work draws on several body-first approaches. You may or may not be familiar with them — and you don't need to be. They simply inform how I listen, guide, and work with what is present.

Dance Movement Therapy

Dance Movement Therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach within the creative arts therapies that works through movement and the body. It brings attention to how you move, sense and express, and to what takes shape in the space between us.

Through this, patterns become visible, emotions find expression, and new ways of responding can develop — grounded in embodied experience.

Authentic Movement

Authentic Movement is a relational practice where movement is guided from within. With eyes closed, supported by my presence and attention, you follow sensations, impulses and emotions as they arise.

It creates a space to stay with your moment-to-moment experience, giving access to deeper layers that are often held back or avoided, and allowing them to be safely expressed.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to working with stress and trauma. We work with what is happening in your body moment to moment, guiding and shaping the process so that what is held there — and at times out of awareness — can begin to shift.

Through this, more ease, connection, resilience and a wider sense of possibility can return.

Internal Family Systems

Internal Family Systems is a psychotherapeutic approach that understands the mind as naturally many-sided. We each carry inner parts — ways of feeling, protecting and coping — and they often want different things at once: the part of you that longs for closeness and the part that keeps its distance can both be there in the same moment. Alongside them is a core self that stays steady, curious and compassionate.

In a session we meet these parts where they show up — in the body, in thoughts, in sensation — and take time to listen what each does for you, and what it has been carrying. Nothing is treated as something to fix.

Through this, inner conflict can soften, and a steadier, more compassionate relationship with yourself can develop — with more spaciousness inside for whatever is there.

We start with a free conversation of around thirty minutes, online, offered once to anyone considering working with me.

It's a chance to meet, for you to ask whatever you'd like to ask, and for us both to sense whether this work is right for you at this point in your life. It isn't a session — nothing is assessed and no treatment plan is made. There's no obligation on either side.

From there, we can decide how to continue. There are set ways of working, described in Working together, and we can also shape something more tailored to what supports you.

→ Start with a free conversation