Core Process Psychotherapy
People usually seek out the healing of therapy because they are suffering in some way. Suffering is painful and it is natural to want to avoid it. Many of us develop strategies to bypass difficult feelings. Over time these ‘survival strategies’ may stop working and imprison us in feelings of grief, loneliness, frustration, anxiety, despair, isolation, addiction or numbness.
Our suffering can also contain the seeds of wholeness. The process of therapy is to gently bring awareness to what obscures the inherent wholeness at our core.
Mindfulness practice has a growing evidence base and is gaining popularity across many fields of psychology.
Core Process Psychotherapy is a depth relational therapy that brings together Buddhist psychology and compassion practices with western psychotherapeutic understanding. At its heart is a trust in the inherent movement in each of us toward wholeness, even when that movement is obscured by pain, trauma, or long-held patterns of survival.
Therapy can help you to explore your relationship to yourself, others and your experience of the world. Relational awareness helps us to see what keeps us stuck in patterns that no longer work and through awareness, change becomes possible.
Reconnecting to your deeper self in this way can help to loosen usual conditioned reactions or patterns of feeling stuck. Past clients have reported a deepening sense of inner space that creates more choice in how they respond to life, as well as a compassionate and more free relationship to themselves and others.
What the work involves
Our work together will be relational and embodied. As well as exploring your history and the stories you carry, you will be gently invited to develop mindful attention, to tune into bodily sensations and notice the moment-to-moment texture of your inner experience.
My approach is holistic and creative, with an intention to support you to develop embodied awareness, explore and release old patterns. This practice encourages you to deepen compassion, spaciousness and authentic presence both to yourself and others.
Ancestral and cultural dimensions
Our personal histories do not begin with our own birth. We each carry something of the unspoken and unresolved experiences of those who came before us, held in the body from our earliest roots, in our relational patterns and our sense of who we are and where we belong. Where it feels relevant and alive in the work, I bring a gentle curiosity to these ancestral and intergenerational threads.
Who I work with
I am particularly drawn to working with people navigating transitions, spiritual crisis, grief, and the kind of existential questioning that does not fit neatly into a diagnosis. People who sense there is something deeper available to them, and who are ready to turn toward it.
Each relationship is unique. For some people, our work together is a short journey and for others, it can be a longer voyage. Therapy is not a prescriptive science but rather is dependent on your needs, what you want to explore and achieve in therapy.
All practicing Core Process Psychotherapists are expected to have an ongoing contemplative or meditation practice. This helps sustain awareness and develop a resonant relational field of presence from which to listen and hold clients at depth.