I
am a psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant and I maintain a
psychotherapy practice in London since 1997. I educate psychotherapists
in various settings, provide CPD training courses, and facilitate small
and large group events and meetings. I have also worked in community
mental health services.
I
developed my interest in Eastern philosophy and Integral Yoga in the
seventies when I worked in an afforestation and erosion control project
in Auroville, South India. My fascination with the interconnection of
psychological, bodily and transpersonal dimensions matured as I
continued to study Yoga, movement and body awareness approaches whilst
working in rural development, construction and later adventure tourism
in India and lead me to embrace psychotherapy eventually.
I
received my basic psychotherapy training in Gestalt Therapy in South
India and subsequently trained with David Boadella at the International
Institute for Biosynthesis - IIBS in Switzerland. Biosynthesis is a
somatic and psychodynamic oriented psychotherapy, including aspects of
pre- and perinatal psychology, body psychotherapy and transpersonal
psychology. I graduated with a Diploma for 'Biosynthesis - somatic and
depth psychology oriented psychotherapy' and qualified as a
Biosynthesis training therapist and supervisor. I have also been
awarded the 'European Certificate of Psychotherapy' (ECP) by the
European Association for Psychotherapy.
I
have consistently developed my own synthesis, incorporating further
training in somatic trauma work and EMDR but also, as much as possible,
the emerging flow of discoveries produced by neuroscience, clinical
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis - in particular aspects of Object
Relations, Attachment Theory, Self Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology
and Spiritual Emergence. This synthesis is based on ongoing dialogue
with colleagues, and on what my clients have taught me. I believe that
a different therapy must be constructed for each client since each has
a unique story. Today, I describe my approach as relational body
psychotherapy. These two paradigms sit comfortably with one another and
between them address what draws me most about psychotherapy - the
intricacies of psyche and soma dynamics in the therapeutic relationship.
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