Integralbody

I am a psychotherapist in general practice with individuals and groups and maintain a practice in London since 1997. I have also worked in statutory mental health services and I facilitate advanced training and professional development courses, for example at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy (www.chiron.org). I am a Biosynthesis training therapist and supervisor.

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 psychology, physiology and transpersonal dimensions matured as I continued to study Yoga, movement and body awareness practice 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 have consistently developed my own synthesis, incorporating as much as possible the constantly 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.