Therapists
Working somatically is a magical process. It’s about trust. Trusting enough to really listen and pay attention. My capacity for holding comes from my own experiences. Through these initiations, I have formed a strong relationship to my inner wisdom and guidance. Through holding space to listen to your innate wisdom, I allow you to let go of past patterning and be able to express more of your own essential nature. I am a trained in Integrative Somatic Trauma Healing with The Embody Lab, a certified coach with MOE Foundation, trained nature facilitator with Change in Nature and have a first class Bachelor of the Arts in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute in London. I've completed an Internal Family Systems Development program with the One Self Institute, a Beautiful Leadership program with All That We Are and worked on the year-long Old Way immersion with WildWise. Originally from Botswana, I live in the UK and run adventures and retreats re-wilding women with Wild Joy and artist residency programs with Studio Verde, including Co-Existence, working with the indigenous wisdom of the Maasai in Kenya.
My therapeutic lens is informed by coaching, somatics and parts work. Coaching is rooted in empowerment as the client is centred in their own experience, which is healing and transformative, particularly through a trauma-informed lens. Somatics understands that healing happens in the body, which is also empowering as no one knows any body better than themselves. Because healing happens in the body, it can be instant and transformative - i.e. we don't need to understand it, we just need to feel it. Somatics is also integrative as it works on many relational aspects at the same time, e.g your relationship to yourself, others and the world. Parts work is an incredible framework which sees us as not singular but a myriad of selves, all reflecting reflect different parts of our whole. Rather than being afraid of our 'demons', this framework understands that every part of us is trying its best, but they need compassionate integration to teach us their powerful lessons.
I was brought up in Africa and educated in the UK. During the cusp of my 20s/30s I went through a long and painful transformation where my life seemed to fall apart in every area. I experienced depression, anxiety and complex trauma on one hand, and on the other I perceive this as an empowering process of self awakening. I believe the healing truth within my personal story is in embracing the discernment and courage needed to trust. We all have darkness in our fears and the conditioning that tells us we must be a certain way in order to be acceptable. I didn't believe I was enough. When we can discern what is coming from outside ourselves and what is our inner truth, we awaken to our potential, holding space for the miraculous.
Brighton, Hove, London