My Approach to Counselling: Mind, Body, Spirit

I believe meaningful healing happens when counselling cares for the whole person—mind, body, and spirit.

My approach is therefore rooted in what I consider Threefold Wellness: creating harmony between the way we think, the way we experience our bodies, and the deeper sense of meaning, connection, and inner wisdom that guides us.

The blue Iris reflects this philosophy. Its three petals symbolize this threefold nature, while also representing our journey through past, present, and future. In mythology, Iris was the messenger between heaven and earth, travelling along the rainbow to carry messages between worlds. I love this as a metaphor for therapy: our bodies and minds are constantly communicating, and learning to notice and listen to those messages can open up profound possibilities for change.

Finally, in the language of flowers, the blue iris represents faith, hope and trust—qualities that I hope you will experience and uncover in our work together.

Healing often happens in the spaces between things: between mind and body, past and present, what we have learned to protect and what we are ready to explore.

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Healing often happens in the spaces between things: between mind and body, past and present, what we have learned to protect and what we are ready to explore. 〰️

Evidence-Based Counselling Approaches

Top-Down & Bottom-Up

Top-down approaches: Through conversation, reflection, insight, beliefs, imagination, and meaning-making, we can develop new perspectives and understand the patterns that shape our lives. Approaches such as solution-focused therapy, mindfulness and parts / ego state therapy can help us understand why we respond the way we do and envision new possibilities.

Bottom-up approaches: We begin with the body and present-moment experience, noticing sensations, emotions, and physiological responses. Through somatic practices, hypnotherapy, EMDR, and other experiential approaches, we can explore patterns that may be difficult to reach through talking alone.

Understanding something intellectually does not always mean that our bodies have learned to feel safe, and calming the body does not necessarily address the beliefs or meaning we have attached to our experiences. By working with both, we can create change that is more deeply integrated.

A Whole-Person Approach

I draw from a range of therapeutic modalities and tailor our work to the individual rather than expecting every person to fit the same therapeutic model. Depending on your needs and goals, this may include:

Top-Down

  • Counselling & relationship-based therapy

  • Solution-Focused Therapy

  • Mindfulness

  • Guided Imagery

  • Parts / Ego State Therapy

Bottom-Up & Experiential

  • Somatic Therapy

  • Hypnotherapy

  • EMDR

  • EFT Tapping

  • Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy

  • Pain-relief mind-body approaches

Coming Home to Yourself

At the heart of my approach is the belief that your body should be a place you feel safe to live in and come home to.

I am particularly interested in helping people develop a trusting relationship with their nervous system and learn to listen to the messages their bodies are communicating. Rather than viewing symptoms only as problems to eliminate, through somatic and body-based approaches, we can become curious about symptoms, while gently exploring old protective patterns and developing new ways of responding.

This work is grounded in compassion, curiosity, safety, and the belief in our capacity for change.

The intention is always the same: to help you develop greater safety, connection, freedom, and trust in yourself—mind, body, and spirit.

Helping You Come Home to Yourself.