PLANT MEDICINE INTEGRATION
The experience of plant medicine can be a profound, life altering experience. It can bring thoughts or memories to the surface that would benefit from further exploration, expose you to powerful emotions that need to be worked through, or bring other aspects to the fore that you feel you need to spend more time integrating.
I offer session for those who have experienced plant medicine to help them to process, learn from, and integrate their experiences.
This can be done as a time-limited set of 6 session where we focus specifically on processing your experiences, or as part of a longer piece of work in which we
The experience of plant medicine can be a profound, life altering experience. Whether you have gained insights you’d like to process or need to work through difficult feelings that have been released
Your experience may have brought certain things into your awareness that you feel you need to spend more time
Therapy can help you to process these experiences and make lasting changes in your life as a result.
My experience of plant medicine
I have experienced different plant medicines (including Rape, Ayahuasca and Psylocibin) in Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. My experiences have enriched my life, and helped me to recover memories and face difficult . Through my own experience I have become aware of how important it can be to have a space to talk through what has been experienced for several reasons
it can help to understand the experience
it facilitates deeper work where needed
it can embed the learning so that it stays with you for longer
Clinical Experience
Clinical Director - Metanoia Institute (2020 - 2024)
Private Practice (2013 - 2024)
Clinical Assessor - Metanoia Institute (2014 - 2020)
Psychotherapist - Elm Lodge Surgery (2013-14)
Working at Aspirations Care (2013)
Psychotherapist - Pluralistic Therapy for Depression (2012-13)
Psychotherapist - The Centre for Better Health (2011-13)
Psychotherapist - St Joseph’s Bereavement Service (2010-12)
Psychotherapist - Metanoia Counselling & Psychotherapy Service (2010-11)
Counsellor - Kids Company (2011)
My Integrative Framework
An element that I believe is fundamental to the therapeutic process is a strong relationship between therapist and client - not only does this provide an important source of support for you, but it also enables us to remain connected when difficult material emerges in the work. My focus on the relationship leads me to work in a relational way in order to build and maintain a strong therapeutic alliance.
In my work I draw on elements of attachment theory, and am interested in how your past experiences are affecting you in the present. I also incorporate psychodynamic principles, and weave strands from person centred therapy, gestalt and object relations theory into my integrative model.
I am a member of the Metanoia Institute and a registered member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. I subscribe to the UKCP and Metanoia Institute's codes of Ethics.
