INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
If you've landed here, something inside you is asking for support:
a gentler way forward, a steadier hand, a place to finally breathe.
You don't have to carry it all on your own anymore.
Held, heard, and
The path unfolds,
one step at a time
I offer individual therapy in Nelson/Whakatū and online across Aotearoa — creating a safe, grounded, deeply compassionate space where you can lay down what's heavy and begin to make sense of what's been shaping your life.
Many people come to me when they're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, burnt out, or quietly struggling beneath the surface.
I also specialise in supporting individuals navigating disordered eating and body image concerns — those exhausting inner battles that often go unseen, unheard, and misunderstood.
Recovery is possible, and it is not something you're meant to do in isolation. You deserve support that is attuned, consistent, and genuinely compassionate.
How we’ll work together
Whatever brings you here, you will be met with warmth, presence, and a therapist who truly listens — not just to your words, but to your nervous system, your body, your pace, and the stories underneath your stories.
In our sessions, you'll have space to gently explore:
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What you've been holding down
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The ones that keep repeating
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Your connection with food, body, and self
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The strategies that once kept you safe
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The weight of trying to "hold it all together"
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Living with more softness, freedom, and self-trust
Therapeutic tools
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can be used for a range of mental and emotional health issues. CBT explores thought patterns and their effect on your moods, providing a range of tools and strategies to manage unhelpful thoughts and behaviour that are impacting on your life and the achievement of your goals.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is all about accepting what you can’t control and committing to action to improve your life. The goal is to foster a rich life, and to accept the pain that inevitably comes with that.
ACT helps you focus on your values and what is meaningful to you and supports you to use this to change your life for the better. Mindfulness skills are an important part of ACT, giving you a toolkit to handle unpleasant thoughts, sensations and images, rather than trying to avoid them
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This modality works with opposites, exploring both acceptance and change strategies. You are accepted as you are, but acknowledgement is made that change is necessary to help you move forward in pursuit of your goals. DBT explores mindfulness and distress tolerance, as well as emotional regulation and interpersonal skills such as assertiveness and boundary setting.
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Solution Focused Therapy is future focused and goal oriented. As the name indicates, SFT focuses on solutions rather than problems. SFT supports you to develop and achieve the solutions you want, and motivates and sustains positive behaviour change.
The way I hold this space
My work is rooted in the understanding that our behaviours, patterns, and struggles are not flaws to be fixed, but intelligent responses to lived experience.
Therapy with me is not about fixing you.
You are not broken.
It is about creating enough safety to listen — to your body, your emotions, and the stories they carry. Together, we gently explore what has shaped you, honour what has helped you survive, and support your nervous system in finding more choice, ease, and connection.
Healing unfolds not through force or correction, but through compassion, presence, and understanding.
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