PSYCHOSEXUAL THERAPY
Areas We Can Explore
Together, we can explore a wide range of sexual and relational concerns, including sexual communication, sexuality, intimacy, menopause, sex and ageing, and alternatives to conventional intercourse. Help women learn how to feel pleasure and work towards having an orgasm, no matter their age.
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Issues relating to pornography, body image or loss of desire
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Differences in libido within a couple
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Difficulty with orgasm, involuntary ejaculation, vaginismus or erectile difficulties
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Fear of sex, sex avoidance or sexual phobias
What Psychosexual Therapy Offers
Sexuality is at the core of who we are. It involves the body, mind and emotions, and it can be a sensitive, complex or difficult topic to navigate.
Psychosexual therapy can offer a meaningful journey of discovery: a way of meeting your body and mind differently, unlearning old patterns, rethinking misconceptions about sex and relationships, and developing a healthier relationship with intimacy.
A Whole-Person Approach
The psychosexual lens is raw, powerful and unique. It allows every dimension of your life to be welcomed into the room: biology, psychology, spirituality and physiology, as well as your present, past and ancestral history.
Getting Unstuck
I value helping people get unstuck, demystify and normalise sexual intimacy, and move beyond the often narrow messages presented by media and culture.
This work may involve supporting people to reconnect with pleasure, explore orgasm, understand desire, or discover new ways of experiencing their own body and their partner’s body. For couples, it can open a new space of connection, curiosity and intimacy.
BREATHWORK AND SOMATIC MOVEMENT FOR TRAUMA PROCESSING
Together, we explore how experiences, emotions and relational patterns can be held in the body. Through gentle attention to breath, movement, sensation and awareness, this work can support healing, regulation and a deeper sense of connection with yourself.
How the Body Remembers
The body holds a quiet, or sometimes very loud, record of what we have lived through, including experiences for which words may not yet have been found. Trauma, stress and relational wounds can remain present as patterns in posture, breath, sensations, movement, and in what feels safe to reach for or avoid.
As a pluralistic practitioner, I see somatic work not as a replacement for talking therapy, but as a way to deepen it. It offers another language for what is asking to be understood and spoken to.
How We Work
Nothing is rushed. Before any deeper body-based work begins, we build safety and trust together. Any embodied intervention happens with clear, ongoing consent: you remain in charge of what happens, and you can pause or stop at any point.
Depending on what feels useful for you, this may involve tracking sensation, exploring movement or gesture, working with breath, or noticing the shapes and postures the body takes in different states. Over time, this can support your body in discovering new patterns of holding, moving and being that reflect safety and choice, rather than old protective responses.
Where This Comes From
My somatic practice draws on Body-Mind Centering, Laban Movement Analysis, developmental movement patterns, and training in breathwork and somatic movement therapy for trauma healing through The Embody Lab. It is also informed by my long-standing personal practice in 5Rhythms dance, authentic movement and Qigong.
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