I’d love for us to work together in support of your healing and recovery.
The truth is, I cannot give you one set of instructions to find your way out of pain and reclaim your life, the list of steps does not exist, and there is not a one-size-for-all formula to recover from chronic pain, fatigue, long COVID or other symptoms.
But I will help you find what works for you.
I’ll offer witnessing, support, encouragement and resources curated just for you to reclaim your life from pain.
Together we’ll harness your strengths and resilience.
My approach
My approach is collaborative, and my style is warm and gentle, though the work we’ll do together will invite you to be vulnerable and brave. The words people who work with me most often use to describe me and my approach are: warm, compassionate, caring, fierce, empathetic, generous, brave, genuine, honest, insightful, intelligent, kind, open, and passionate.
We will engage in conversations and practices for healing, centering your lived experience, your strengths, hopes, and values to grow in ease and wellbeing, and working through challenges and obstacles* that may be standing in the way of you living a full and gratifying life.
*Some of these obstacles are systemic, and I understand that change in this realm needs to be collective. I will not pathologize adaptive responses to oppressive narratives and systems, and I actively continue to do my own work to unlearn internalized oppressive narratives.
We will together make sense of your story and explore how your particular context has shaped your experience of embodiment, health, and wellbeing. We will create space for the grief that comes from the inevitability of facing illness, dis-ease and pain that living in a human bodymind involves, and from particular experiences of adversity, including systemic oppression. From my own lived experience, and that of the many people I've had the honor to help in my practice, I know that we can find radical healing and come to wholeness even in the presence of illness, and pain, and loss. I don’t know what this will look like for you, because no one else (including me) can tell you what health and wellbeing should/could/might be/look like for you. I will listen and bear witness with genuine curiosity, compassion, warmth, and a little humor.
Our work together is mindfulness and compassion based, and may include meditation and somatic practices, emotional expression, journaling, kind boundaries that honor you and your values, relational aspects, mindful movement, education, pain reprocessing skills, inquiry, and more.
I integrate an understanding of neuroscience in a bio-psycho-social-spiritual-ecological approach, as well as a feminist intersectional lens and critical theory. I bring scientific knowledge and a myriad of healing practices with depth and nuance.
I can help if…
you are experiencing chronic pain and/or other persistent symptoms that bring dis-ease, including fatigue, fibromyalgia, and functional digestive symptoms (e.g. GERD, IBS) or post-COVID syndrome;
you have received one of the diagnoses in this list;
despite experiencing different persistent and troublesome symptoms and consulting with multiple healthcare professionals, you haven’t yet received a clear diagnosis, your symptoms are still a mystery, and/or the treatments you’ve been offered have only provided partial and temporary relief;
you are considering a surgical procedure for some kind of chronic pain, e.g. spinal surgery for chronic back pain, and you’d like to explore alternatives;
you’ve been told your symptoms may be stress related;
you’ve been told you have multiple food allergies or sensitivities, but the treatment has either not worked or worsened your symptoms, your diet is so restrictive it impairs your life, or you have contradictory information and want to find an approach that works for you;
you experience struggles in your relationship with food and/or body;
you experience anxiety and/or depression;
you are questioning what about the medical information you’ve received is relevant or true for you;
you want to take care of you on your own terms, and want someone who will be able to support you in self care skills that actually work for you;
you wish to cultivate and honor healthy boundaries that allow for your own self-care and replenishing empathy and compassion.
If you’re a provider in healthcare and/or coaching, and you want to deepen your understanding and expand your skills in this field, or get support with the challenges of the work you do, it will be my joy to offer you a space of (un)learning and mentoring.
Let’s get started!
We can start with either a full intake or a standalone consulting session, I encourage you to choose the option that feels most supportive to you.
Intake
The intake includes two 50 min sessions, which gives us enough time for you to share your story with me, and also for more nuance and depth in our exploration. It offers us greater clarity on how we can work together in support of your healing, and gives me a fuller picture to answer your questions, as well as more insight about practices and tools that could best address your needs, priorities, and wishes. Before our first session, I'll ask that you answer a questionnaire, in as much or little detail as you like.
My fee for the full intake is £520. Follow up 50 min sessions are £250.
You can schedule your intake here. You'll receive a Zoom link for your first session, and we can do either video or audio, depending on your preference. For the second session, I can either share instructions and a code for you to choose the time, or we can agree on a time at the end of our first session and I'll schedule it manually for you.
Consulting session
In case the intake feels a bit too much to begin with, and you'd like to have the time and space to get to know me, ask questions, and build a foundation of trust and comfort with me before sharing your story in depth, you can opt for a standalone 50-minute session.
If after this consulting call you choose to continue with further sessions with me, the timing of a full intake process is flexible—you’re welcome to continue with more standalone sessions before answering the questionnaires and sharing related information or committing to an ongoing process, and we can also move forward without a formal intake if that’s what you want. While the intake is valuable for me to gain a fuller understanding, I recognize that for some people it can feel intense and overwhelming, and that it can ask for a degree of trust you don’t yet have with me.
If at any point you decide to move forward with the in-depth questionnaires / intake, you’re always free to leave any questions unanswered until a time that feels right. My priority is to create a space that respects your needs and fosters a positive experience, wherever you choose to take things from this standalone session.
My fee for the standalone consulting session is £250. You can learn more about standalone consulting sessions here, and schedule using this link.