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17th May 2025 

About me

Qualifications & experience

A fully accredited member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), I began practising 15 years ago after completing a four-year MA in mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP) at the Karuna Institute in Devon. My training and subsequent work has been inspired and supported by a long-standing Zen practice and a deep interest in body/mind practices such as yoga, conscious movement and shiatsu. In 2023, I undertook a Diploma in Practising Energy Psychotherapy (EP) with Confer. This relatively new field uses a range of cognitive interventions alongside somatic techniques (including self-tapping on acupressure points) to rapidly reduce stress and trauma and calm the nervous system. I first learned about acupressure and the subtle energy system when studying Shiatsu-Do at the British School of Shiatsu in the 1990s. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, shiatsu is a form of Japanese bodywork employing pressure on the acupuncture points of the meridian system to bring balance to the body/mind. Core Process Psychotherapy draws all of this learning together, integrating deep, nonjudgemental listening with precise body/mind interventions to help resolve the entrenched habits, and the cycling of stress and trauma, that obscure the fundamental health and wholeness at the heart of being.